July 3, 2019
In This Issue:
On June 25, the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced a new, free and accredited e-learning program: Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals. The program, available via OMH's Think Cultural Health website, is designed to develop behavioral health providers' knowledge and skills related to culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS). The tool is particularly timely for professionals working to address the opioid epidemic among racial and ethnic populations, which have low treatment rates and some of the highest rates of opioid misuse and overdose.
Federal Grants
- U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)/Federal Transit Administration (FTA): Grant. Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program. Eligibility is limited to federally-recognized American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal governments located in rural areas with a population of 50,000 or less.
Deadline is July 9. Learn more.
- HHS/Administration for Community Living (ACL): Grant. Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERCs) Program: RERC on Technologies to Enhance Independence and Community Living for People with Cognitive Impairments.
Deadline is July 15. Learn more.
- HHS/Administration for Children and Families (ACF): Cooperative agreement. Regional Partnership Grants to Increase the Well-Being of, and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for, Children and Families Affected By Opioids and Other Substance Abuse.
Deadline is July 31. Learn more.
- HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Grant. Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program. Eligibility is limited to community-based ambulatory patient care centers that operates accredited primary care residency programs.
Deadline is August 30. Learn more.
Non-Federal Grants
- Cedar Tree Foundation: Children's Environmental Health Initiative. Supports campaigns and programs that are led by people of color and are designed to reduce children's exposures to toxic chemicals in products and in their environments.
Deadline for Letter of Intent is July 12. Learn more.
- American Legion Child Welfare Foundation: Grants for the Promotion of Health Organizations and Programs. Supports the dissemination of knowledge about both new and well-established organizations and/or their youth welfare programs to the end that such information can be more adequately used by society.
Deadline is July 15. Learn more.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Building Evidence on Access to Early Care and Education (ECE) for Low-Income Families. Supports research that advances health equity, builds the knowledge base and informs policymaking to increase access to ECE, defined here as formal and informal non-parental care for children birth to age 5.
Deadline is July 25. Learn more.
- National Center for Mobility Management: Community Mobility Design Challenge 2019 Planning Grants. Supports communities seeking ways to address mobility challenges experienced by low-income community members for whom a lack of transportation is an obstacle to the pursuit of health and social well being.
Deadline is August 1. Learn more.
Scholarships / Fellowships
- National Board for Certified Counselors Foundation: 2019 Dr. Nicholas Vacc Scholarship. Provides financial assistance to board certified, doctoral-level counseling students.
Deadline is July 31. Learn more.
- The Center for Reintegration: 2020-2021 Baer Scholarship. Provides financial assistance to students living with a mental illness.
Application period opens October 1. Learn more.
- American Association on Health and Disability: Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability. Provides financial assistance to students with physical or psychiatric disabilities who are pursuing university studies related to health and disability.
Deadline is November 15. Learn more.
Loan Repayment
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- HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD): Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research and Extramural Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. These programs provide loan repayment awards to health professionals committed to conducting health disparities or clinical research in non-federal research settings for at least two years.
Application period opens September 1. Learn more.
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Webinars
- National Indian Health Board (NIHB): Conducting a Public Health Accreditation Self-Assessment: Who, What, Why and How. Join NIHB and three Tribal public health officials who conducted a self-assessment of their public health system and learn about why they chose to conduct a self-assessment, what they learned about their organization, who was involved and how they are using the results.
July 9, 2:00 pm ET. Register.
- American Public Health Association (APHA), Office of Population Affairs (OPA) and Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Positive Approaches to Adolescent Health webinar series. Nothing About Us Without Us: Authentic Youth Engagement in Public Health. This webinar will identify best practices and feature examples for planning for and ensuring authentic youth engagement in public health programs and practices for adolescents.
July 16, 12:00 pm ET. Register.
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: The Potential Role of Nutrition in the First 2 Years of Life in the Prevention of Child Overweight and Obesity. Presentations will feature the current prevalence and trends of high weight-for-length in infants and young children, the state of the science on nutrition-related modifiable risk factors and obesity prevention interventions that address healthy growth, with a special emphasis on reducing disparities in populations with above-average obesity risk.
July 18, 12:00 pm ET. Register.
Conferences
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- Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum: Registration is open for VOICES 2019, Dare To Be Brave: We Were Built for This. VOICES is a national conference to advance the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
September 10-12 in Washington, DC. Register.
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- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO): Registration is open for the 2019 ASTHO Annual Meeting and Policy Summit.
September 23-25 in Bethesda, MD. Learn more.
Deadline for registration is August 30. Register.
Other Events
- National Academy of Medicine (NAM): Twitter chat. Payment and Care for Complex Health and Social Needs. NAM seeks insights on how to advance the profession of nursing to help promote health equity and improve the health and well-being of the U.S. population in the 21st century. This chat is being hosted in preparation for the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Town Hall Meeting in Philadelphia.
July 17, 3:00 pm ET. Learn more.
- HHS/NIH, NIMHD: Meeting. National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NACMHD). NACMHD advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the NIH Director and the NIMHD Director on matters regarding NIH's research and research training activities with respect to minority health issues.
September 10 in Bethesda, MD. Learn more.
- Annie E. Casey Foundation: New report. 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being. This report reveals that, for the period of 2010-2017, more parents were financially stable and living without burdensome housing costs, more teens graduated from high school and delayed parenthood and access to children's health insurance had increased, but it also reveals that the risk of babies being born at a low weight continues to rise, racial inequities remain systemic and 12% of children are still growing up in areas of concentrated poverty. Learn more | Download the full report (PDF).
Opportunities for Public Comments
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Call for comments on the Draft Research Plan for Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Preventive Medication.
Deadline is July 17. Learn more.
- HHS/Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP): Solicitation for written comments on an Updated Health Literacy Definition for Healthy People 2030.
Deadline is August 5. Learn more.
- The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in collaboration with the NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Behavioral study. Technology Enhanced Family Treatment. Researchers seek to enhance the scalability of family-focused therapy, a 12-session evidence-based therapy for youth at high risk for mood disorders, through augmentation with a novel mobile phone application called MyCoachConnect. Researchers seek volunteers age 13-19 years old who have access to smart-phones, a tablet or computer, and who have at least one parent with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder type I, bipolar disorder type II or major depressive disorder. Study to be conducted at the UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Calif. Learn more.
Trainings
- The Cross Cultural Health Care Program: Equity and Inclusion Training of Trainers Institute. This Institute provides a 5-day intensive course for organizations to meet mandates and recommendations for culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
October 7-11 in Seattle, WA. Learn more.
- Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM): Good Clinical Practice eCourse. This free training and certification program is intended for NIH-funded investigators and staff who are involved in applying for, conducting, overseeing or managing clinical trials. Learn more.
The book Culture, Heritage, and Diversity in Older Adult Mental Health Careexplains how cultural competence has become a significant component of mental health care for the increasingly diverse population of older people in the United States. Drawing on core competencies from the American Psychiatric Association, the text suggests techniques for handling mental health issues of older people of various backgrounds, ethnicities, geographic locations, and sexual orientations. It also covers linguistic competence. To view this title or request additional information, search the online catalog. To find out more about how to use the HHS Office of Minority Health Knowledge Center Online Library, watch this video. |
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