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July 3, 2024 | View as a webpage
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July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
This July, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) is focusing on improving mental health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities through its 2024 theme Be the Source for Better Health: Improving Health Outcomes Through Our Cultures, Communities, and Connections. This theme calls on each of us to better understand how the unique environments, cultures, histories, and circumstances (known as social determinants of health, or SDOH) of racial and ethnic minority and AI/AN populations impact their mental health.
Participate in conversations about racial and ethnic minority and AI/AN mental health on social media by tagging @MinorityHealth on X (Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram and using the hashtags #SourceForBetterHealth and #NMMHAM.
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Closing Next Week: Development of Public Health Vaccine and Prevention Educational Campaigns Involving Community Health Workers
OMH has recently released a Request for Information (RFI) looking for insights from community health workers (CHWs). Please respond to and/or share this new opportunity to help OMH better understand the needs of the populations it serves.
Through this RFI, OMH seeks to obtain information from CHWs, recipients of CHW services, and organizations representing and/or communities using CHWs to guide the development of an educational campaign focused on increasing the cultural and linguistic competency efforts related to public health vaccines (e.g., influenza and COVID) and other prevention strategies.
Closing Date is July 11, 2024.
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Funding |
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Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention Workforce Expansion Program
Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to increase the nursing workforce in rural and underserved areas to address the critical shortage of nurses, specifically in acute and long-term care settings.
Deadline is July 26.
Meeting the Basic Needs of Underserved Crime Victims
Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime to support services for victims of crime by organizations that understand the complex, multilayered, culturally specific challenges that crime victims from underserved communities face when attempting to access assistance and services.
Deadline is July 29.
Multi-Sectoral Preventive Interventions That Address Social Determinants of Health in Populations That Experience Health Disparities
Cooperative agreement from the NIH to support projects to test prospective multi-sectoral preventive interventions that address social determinants of health in populations that experience health disparities.
Deadline is August 5.
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Rural Hospital Stabilization Pilot Program
Grant from HRSA to improve health care in rural areas by providing in-depth technical assistance to rural hospitals to enhance and/or expand service lines to meet local need and keep health care services available locally.
Deadline is July 26.
Centers for AIDS Research
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide administrative and shared research support to enhance HIV/AIDS research by providing core facilities, expertise, resources, and services not readily obtained otherwise through more traditional funding mechanisms.
Deadline is August 4.
Expanding Access to Women’s Health
Grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provides a funding source to states for activities related to planning and implementing the market reforms and consumer protections to enhance and expand access to reproductive and maternal health coverage and services.
Deadline is August 7.
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Webinars and Other Events |
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Childhood Cancer Data Initiative: Leveraging Data Standards for Improving Interoperability
Part of webinar series hosted by the National Cancer Institute.
July 9, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
An Aligned Delivery and Financing Model to Address Food Insecurity and Social Needs of Low-Income Pregnant Women
Webinar hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action.
July 10, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Conversations on Cancer: Exploring Religious Literacy and Spirituality in Cancer Care
Webinar hosted by the Food and Drug Administration Oncology Center of Excellence.
July 10, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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Bridging the Science of Health Equity with Action Towards Systems Change
Webinar hosted by the National Academy of Medicine.
July 10, at 8:45 a.m. ET.
Expanding Maternal Health Services at Urban Indian Organizations
Webinar hosted by the National Council of Urban Indian Health.
July 10, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Director’s Lecture: Maternal Health
Lecture hosted by the National Institute of Nursing Research.
July 11, at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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Resources |
Report: Risk Factors for Poor Health Among U.S. Older Adults in Rural and Urban Areas
Research on rural-urban health disparities among older adults often focuses on clinical outcomes, providing a limited understanding of overall differences in older adult social, emotional, and physical well-being and safety by rurality. This report from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center examines three risk factors for poor health outcomes among older adults by rural-urban residence: injury, food insecurity, and lack of social and emotional support.
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The Trevor Project’s 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People
The Trevor Project's 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People amplifies the experiences of more than 18,000 LGBTQ+ young people ages 13 to 24 across the United States. The report covers mental health and suicide risks, access to care, policy and victimization, and ways to support LGBTQ+ young people.
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Issue Brief: Expanding Peer Support and Supporting the Peer Workforce in Mental Health
This issue brief from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration offers valuable information to state mental health authorities about the benefits of peer support and inclusion of the peer workforce throughout the behavioral health continuum. The document highlights current standards and best practices for including peer support workers as an essential component of services delivery for mental and co-occurring disorders, like substance use disorder.
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Clinical Trials |
Foster Care Mental Health Family Navigator
This study, sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health, will focus on developing and testing a family-based mental health navigator intervention, the Foster Care Family Navigator, to evaluate whether the intervention combined with mHealth (mobile health) would be efficacious in improving mental health service initiation and engagement for child welfare-involved youth. This study will take place in San Francisco, California.
OurChild: A Health IT Solution to Reduce Minority Health Disparities
This study, sponsored by New York University Langone Health in collaboration with the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, will design, build, and implement OurChild, an integrated mHealth solution to increase access to early childhood mental health knowledge and mental health services and resources for Chinese American children ages 2-6 years old and their parents. This study will take place in New York, New York.
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Workforce Development |
Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program
This fellowship from the National Cancer Institute provides its fellows an opportunity to develop an independent research program in cancer prevention and original scientific projects with input from senior scientists and program staff.
Deadline is August 1.
How to Use the Health Belief Model to Improve Type II Diabetes Self-Management in LGBTQ+ Patients
This training dives into how to utilize the Health Belief Model to improve LGBTQ+ patients’ Type II diabetes self-management. By the end of the module, learners will be able to summarize the six concepts of the Health Belief Model and apply the Health Belief Model concepts of cues to action and self-efficacy to understand, motivate, and advocate for LGBTQ+ Type 2 diabetic patients and help them improve their diabetes self-care.
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Knowledge Center |
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Recommended Reading
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and the OMH Knowledge Center is sharing 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Messaging and Communications to People at Higher Risk for or Disproportionately Impacted by Suicide. This report from the Ad Council Research Institute, in partnership with the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, explores groups at higher risk for and disproportionately impacted by suicide and the attitudes and barriers they face related to 988, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. It attempts to inform culturally sensitive outreach about 988 and identify trusted messengers within these populations.
You can access this free resource through the online catalog here.
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