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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Health Month https://bit.ly/2LEyo0D
May is Older Americans Month,
a time when we recognize the contributions of older Americans and think about
how we as Americans work together to support and value people over age 65. The
theme this year is “Engage at Every Age.”
May
is Mental Health Month. Mental illnesses affect about one-fourth of
adults in any given year and nearly half of adults at some time during their
lives. https://bit.ly/2rvd7x4
Prostate Cancer Guidelines
The US Preventive Services Task Force released a final
recommendation statement on screening for prostate cancer. For men age 70 years
and older, the potential benefits do not outweigh the expected harms, and these
men should not be routinely screened for prostate cancer. www.screeningforprostatecancer.org.
Opportunities for Health Careers
The Health
Careers Opportunity Program’s National HCOP Academies Grant is available to assist individuals from
disadvantaged backgrounds to enter a health profession through the development
of academies that will support and guide them through the educational pipeline.
Deadline is May 29. Learn more.
ARPS Season
Several
of the NPA’s regional health equity councils (RHECs) convened their annual
review and planning sessions (ARPS) this spring. In addition to reviewing
recent accomplishments and planning efforts for the coming year, each RHEC
welcomed new members and elected leadership. In April, the Great Lakes RHEC
held its ARPS in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the New England RHEC and RHEC II
came together for a joint meeting in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The Mountain
States RHEC and the Pacific and Southwest RHEC met together in May. Members
highlighted issues including the USVI
Data Report, housing, diabetes, access to quality healthcare, cultural
competency, value-based care, opioids, language equity, environmental impacts
on health, and violence as a public health issue.
Welcome to the New Emerging
Professionals
This month, after a successful launch of the Emerging Professionals
Initiative Program (EPIP), the NPA said goodbye to a very talented group of
media and communications students who served as support to the RHECs on their
social media and other communications tasks. A new group of students will be
joining us this month for the summer EP program. We look forward to working
with them to advance the messages of the RHECs and the NPA.
The NPA Winter 2018
Newsletter is still available.
Stay tuned for multiple upcoming NPA Blog posts. You
will be able to find them in recent announcements.
June 21 Webinar: An Overview of the NIH
All of Us Research Program
This webinar will
focus on providing the audience with an overview of the NIH All of Us Research
Program, a key element of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). All
of Us is a participant-engaged, data-driven enterprise supporting
research at the intersection of human biology, behavior, genetics, environment,
data science, computation, and much more to produce new knowledge with the goal
of developing more effective ways to treat disease. The webinar also will
highlight the program’s engagement efforts with community and healthcare
provider organizations. The audience will learn about how to become involved
with All of Us and will be able to share information with
those they serve and/or represent. Learn more and register here.
RHEC
VIII Hosts Two Health Equity Webinars
On
April 26, the Mountain States Regional Health Equity (RHEC VIII) Community
Health Worker (CHW) Subcommittee hosted the webinar Strategies for Building and Strengthening the CHW Effort in Your Area:
A Case Study from Utah. Presenters shared strategies and pathways for
building and strengthening CHW efforts in the community. Watch a recording of
the webinar here.
On
May 16, RHEC VIII hosted another webinar, Communications
Solutions for Achieving Health Equity for Populations Living with Disabilities.
This webinar outlined crosscutting strategies that can support more
inclusive and accessible approaches to implementing Healthy Communications and
Health Information Technology (HCHIT). Watch
a recording of the webinar here.
AI/AN Caucus Hosts Webinar on Community-Based
Participatory Research (CBPR) in Indian Country
On April 5,
the NPA AI/AN Caucus hosted the webinar Community-based
Participatory Research in Indian Country. This
webinar focused on Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) principles to
address health disparities among American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
Watch a recording of the webinar here.
RWJF and NPA Host FIHET Webinar on Utilizing
the Collective Impact Model to Address Health Disparities
On May 23, the NPA and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
partnered to host a webinar
that highlighted Buncombe County’s efforts to use the Collective Impact Model
to leverage partnerships, funding, and community-based strategies to address
this health disparity. Using this model, this North Carolina county’s HHS
invests in strategic partnerships as a key strategy to ensure programs are
designed for sustainability, speak to community aspirations, and incorporate
authentic community engagement.
National Conference of State Legislatures Hosts Webinar on Behavioral
Health Disparities
On
April 10, in collaboration with the NPA, NCSL hosted the webinar State
Legislative Approaches to Reducing Behavioral Health Disparities. Speakers highlighted findings from an OMH-supported NCSL analysis of legislation introduced in 2017
related to behavioral health disparities. Presenters described behavioral
health issues and challenges, key barriers to care, and factors contributing to
behavioral health disparities; highlighted state actions from the 2017
legislative sessions and identified common legislative approaches; and
described emerging strategies for improving access to behavioral health
providers and services. Watch a recording of
the webinar here.
Urban Indian Health Conference
The National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) is hosting the
2018 Annual Conference in Arlington, VA June 26-28. For more information, go to
https://bit.ly/2FawwIk.
Funding
Available for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
SAMHSA is accepting applications for the Infant and Early
Childhood Mental Health Grant Program totaling up to $23.4 million over the
next five years. The purpose of this program is to improve outcomes for young
children by developing, maintaining, or enhancing infant and early childhood
mental health promotion, intervention, and treatment services. SAMHSA expects
to fund up to nine grantees with up to $500,000 per year for up to five years. Applications
are due by June 29 at 11:59 p.m. https://bit.ly/2KPGqTX
Funding Available
for Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health
CDC’s Division for Nutrition,
Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) announces the availability of Fiscal
Year 2018 funds to implement CDC-RFA-DP18-1813:
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH).
This 5-year program is to improve health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce
health disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest risk,
or burden, of chronic disease, specifically for African Americans/Blacks,
Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders,
American Indians, and Alaska Natives.
Use of Community
Health Workers and Patient Navigators to Improve Cancer Outcomes Among Patients
Served by Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Systematic Literature Review Read it now.
Improving
Life Outcomes for Children with History of Mental Health Challenges and Trauma
A new report indicates
that nearly half (46 percent) of the nation’s children from birth through 17
years of age report having experienced at least one traumatic event in their
lifetime. The Helping Children and Youth
Who Have Traumatic Experiences report is based on data from Health
Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) National Survey of Children’s
Health (NSCH), which provides national and state level estimates of key
measures of child health and well-being.
FIHET Compendium of Publicly Available Datasets
The
Federal Interagency Health Equity Team released a Compendium of
Publicly Available Datasets and Other Data-Related Resources, which
compiles in one place dozens of public datasets and resources pertinent to
research in the areas of health disparities and social determinants of
health. Please click here to download and
learn more about the compendium and
available datasets.
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