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October 23, 2024 | View as a webpage
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World Stroke Day is October 29
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the risk of having a first stroke is twice as high for non-Hispanic Black adults than for White adults. World Stroke Day on October 29th provides an annual focal point for stroke awareness activities around the world. This year, World Stroke Organization is channeling the emotional power of sports to drive stroke awareness and to motivate us all to take action every day to reduce stroke risk. Learn more about stroke prevalence and join the #GreaterThan Challenge to help raise awareness and prevent stroke.
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2024 Medicare Open Enrollment
Medicare Open Enrollment runs from October 15 – December 7. Your health needs can change from year to year and so can Medicare plan costs and coverage. Medicare Open Enrollment lets you compare prescription drug and health options to find the best coverage. Share the resources from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with your community to help them enroll, compare benefits, and learn about new benefits for 2025.
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Funding
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Wisconsin State Opioid Response Grant
Grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Division of Care and Treatment Services for the purpose of providing treatment and recovery support services to people with a primary opioid use disorder or stimulant use disorder, as well as other co-occurring substance use disorders.
Deadline is November 12.
Feasibility Trials of the NIH Music-based Interventions Toolkit for Brain Disorders of Aging
Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support proof-of-concept feasibility trials guided by the NIH Music-based Interventions Toolkit for research on brain disorders of aging.
Deadline is November 19.
Empowering Nonprofits to Work on Tobacco Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Grant from the California Department of Public Health to fund up to ten non-profit organizations and/or tribal consortia that serve American Indian and Alaska Native communities across California to build capacity toward ending California’s tobacco epidemic through policy, systems, and environmental change strategies.
Deadline is November 21.
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Montana Mental Health Trust
Grant from the Montana Mental Health Trust to support programs, services, organizations, and resources for the prevention, treatment, and management of serious mental illness of Montana children and adults.
Deadline is November 15.
Older Adults Home Modification Grant Program
Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to assist experienced nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, and public housing authorities in undertaking comprehensive programs that make safety and functional home modification repairs and renovations to meet the needs of low-income seniors.
Deadline is November 19.
Youth Mental Health Narratives
Challenge grant from CDC to advance suicide research by gathering information from youth mental health narratives to help researchers better understand, prevent, and treat youth mental health crises.
Deadline is November 21.
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Webinars and Other Events
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Increasing Behavioral Health Equity for Culturally Specific Communities
Webinar hosted by Office of Family Violence Prevention Services.
October 24, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
The Value of Connection in Mental Health Supports for Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Elders
Webinar hosted by the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations.
October 24, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Small Business Opportunities for Innovative Women’s Health Research
Webinar hosted by the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health.
October 30, at 11:00 a.m. ET.
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Advances in Evidence-based Obesity Treatment: New Anti-Obesity Medications as Companions to Behavior and Lifestyle Programs
Webinar hosted by CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity.
October 24, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Health Literacy Game-Changers for Health Equity Champions
Webinar hosted by the Society for Public Health Education.
October 24, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Developing a Strategy for Workforce Well-Being
Workshop hosted by the Bureau of Primary Health Care Workforce Well-Being Technical Assistance Hub.
October 31, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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Resources
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Workforce Toolkit to Support Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Providers
Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) face unique difficulties in maintaining their workforce due to limited institutional resources, high turnover, and a shortage of essential support services like childcare and housing in rural areas. To help CAHs and other rural providers enhance their workforce efforts, the Flex Monitoring Team created this toolkit, which provides background information on health care workforce challenges in the United States and describes common workforce challenges faced by CAHs. It provides examples of external resources that CAHs across the country may use to address their own workforce needs.
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Eviction Prevention: A Toolkit for Tenants and Service Providers
The Homeless and Housing Resource Center created this toolkit for people with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders living in community-based low-income housing and the service providers and organizations supporting them in their housing and recovery. The toolkit provides essential information to support stable tenancies and avoid the trauma of housing eviction.
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Introducing the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) Tool
CMS is offering a web-based training course that provides an overview of the HOPE tool and how it relates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program as described in the fiscal year 2025 Hospice Final Rule.
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Clinical Trials
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Screening for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Cognitive Function in Individuals with History of Stroke
This study, sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will evaluate how social and lifestyle factors affect the risk of mental impairment after a stroke. This study will take place in Bethesda, Maryland.
teleABLE to Reduce Post-Stroke Sedentary Behavior
This study, sponsored by the University of Minnesota in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, will test whether a remotely delivered behavioral activation-based intervention called "teleABLE" works better than a traditional health education intervention for reducing sitting time and improving health-related quality among adults who were diagnosed with stroke within the past 12 months. This study will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Workforce Development
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NIH Loan Repayment Program
The NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) are a set of programs established by Congress and designed to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers. LRPs repay up to $50,000 annually of a researcher's qualified educational debt in return for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research.
Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals
This course from CDC educates public health professionals on the importance of health literacy and their role in providing health information and services and promoting public health literacy.
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Knowledge Center
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Recommended Reading
In honor of World Stroke Day on October 29th, the OMH Knowledge Center is featuring a small collection of recently published articles related to stroke in racial and ethnic minority populations. The collection covers topics such as disparities in stroke prevalence, digital health intervention to prevent stroke in diverse communities, food insecurity in stroke survivors, and more.
These resources are all free to access and read through the online catalog.
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