Weekly InsiderAugust 25, 2010

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Weekly Insider is a web-enhanced newsletter that offers news alerts, grant announcements and general web site updates delivered directly to your email box on a weekly basis. The Center is located at the School of Public Health and Health Services at The George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.


New Resources

CHA Transformation: Children and Youth, published by the Urban Institute, examines the welfare of children relocated from the public housing developments of the Chicago Housing Authority through the HOPE IV Panel study.

Childhood Obesity: The New Tobacco , published in Health Affairs, discusses the need for childhood obesity prevention to become a social movement, similar to previous campaigns to prevent smoking and tobacco.

School Health: Resource Brief, assembled by the Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, is a database of organizations and topics related to school health.

New from the Center

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools posted a new report titled Comparative Case Study of Caring Across Communities: Identifying Essential Components of Comprehensive School-Linked Mental Health Services for Refugee and Immigrant Children. The report is an evaluation of the three-year Caring Across Communities grant program managed by the Center. The report explored several aspects of the program, including the challenges experienced by the children and families the CAC programs served; the necessary components of comprehensive mental health services for refugee and immigrant children; and how partnerships between schools and multiple community agencies can work collaboratively to implement the necessary components of comprehensive mental health services. To view the report, please visit: http://www.healthinschools.org/Immigrant-and-Refugee-Children/Caring-Across-Communities/CAC-Evaluation-Report.aspx

The archive of our webinar presentation “Promising Models for Funding and Sustaining School Mental Health Services to Immigrant and Refugee Families” held May 20, 2010 is now available The presenters are Mark Sander, Minneapolis Public Schools, MN., Grace Valenzuela, Portland Public Schools, ME and Audrey Tucker, Family Service Association of Bucks County, PA. This webinar featured three different school based mental health models, partnerships and funding/sustainability strategies.  All three presenters were part of the Robert Woods Johnson Caring Across Communities initiative, a national grant program that focused on school based and school connected mental health programs for immigrant and refugee students. http://www.healthinschools.org/en/Immigrant-and-Refugee-Children/Tools-and-Documents.aspx

Caring Across Communities, a program of the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, is featured in a new video from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Caring Across Communities program places mental health workers and programs in the schools, offers cultural training to teachers, and involves families and communities in care. The video highlights various aspects of the program. http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=60828&cid=xfb_rwjf

Supporting Immigrant & Refugee Communities (SIRC) Listserv is now active! The listserv provides an opportunity to pose questions to the field, share information, and network with colleagues nationwide. We will also share lessons learned, tools, and information gained during the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Caring Across Communities grant initiative. For more information and to sign up, click here. http://www.healthinschools.org/About-Us/Subscribe.aspx#listserv3

Important Topic

Nutrition in Schools

U.S. Department of Agriculture: Healthy Meals Resource System-Providing information to persons working in the USDA's Child Nutrition Programs.
http://healthymeals.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=14&tax_level=1

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools: Nutrition and Schools
http://www.healthinschools.org/News-Room/Fact-Sheets/ChildhoodObesity/Nutrition-and-Schools.aspx

Healthy School Lunches: A Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/

Upcoming Meetings

• Orlando, FL: Dropout Prevention Institute/School Attendance Symposium. October 4-7, 2010. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.dropoutprevention.org/conferen/conferen.htm#2010SchoolAttendanceSymposium

• New York, NY: 9th International Conference on Urban Health. October 27-29, 2010. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.nyam.org/icuh2010/

• Hollywood, CA: Ready to Learn Conference. November 18, 2010. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://edualliance.org/

• Baltimore, MD: Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness. December 14-16, 2010. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.jmate.org/jmate2010/

• San Francisco, CA: School Psychology Research Collaboration Conference. February 20-21, 2011. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.education.ucsb.edu/jimerson/sssp.sprcc/

• San Francisco, CA: National Association of School Psychologists Annual Convention. February 22-25, 2011. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.nasponline.org/conventions/convention_list.aspx  

Previously Posted Meetings

• Washington, DC: MCHB 75th Anniversary Celebration.  October 20, 2010.  For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.hrsa.gov/ourstories/mchb75th/

• San Antonio, TX: 16th Annual Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference.  December 13-17, 2010.  For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/MCHEpi/2010/AboutConference.htm

• Hartford, CT:  NACCHO Annual 2011 Conference.  July 20-22, 2011.  For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.naccho.org/events/nacchoannual2011/index.cfm

• Webinar: Using New Media to Reach Students and/or Families. October 27, 2010. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?i=e32d0052-d0b4-4016-a73f-6e098a92e16e

• Myrtle Beach, SC: 14th National School Social Work Conference.  March 30 - April 2, 2010. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.sswaa.org/ConferenceRegistration.asp

• Honolulu, HI: International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect: One World, One Family, Many Cultures- Strengthening Children and Families Affected by Personal, Intra-Familial and Global Conflict. September 26-29, 2010. For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.ispcan.org/congress2010/welcome.html

Job Opportunities

• Riverside Community Care – Developmental Specialist IDDSC (Somerville, MA)
• SCO Family of Services – Nurses, OT/PT, Residential Rec. Therapists (Bronx, NY)
• Bellevue School District - Substitute School Nurse (Bellevue, WA)
• Mankato Publis School District – School Nurse Substitute (Mankato, MN)
• Glendale YWCA – Executive Director (Glendale, CA)
• Peer Health Exchange – New York City Executive Director (New York, NY)

Grant Alerts

The National Parent Teacher Association - PTA Healthy Lifestyles Award (Deadline: 9/10/10)

The purpose of the PTA Healthy Lifestyles Award is to promote good nutrition and regular physical activity in order to address childhood obesity through awareness, activity, and nutrition programs.

Red Robin Foundation – U-ACT Program (Deadline: 10/1/10)

The U-ACT Program, sponsored by the Red Robin Foundation, challenges middle and junior high schools to create caring communities and inspire kindness among students. The goal of the Red Robin Foundation U-ACT Champion Program is to help foster and create a sense of neighborliness inside and outside of the school.

Ezra Jack Keats Foundation - Library Mini-grant Program (Deadline: 9/15/10)

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Mini-grant Program awards funds to programs that encourage literacy and creativity in children.

US Department of Agriculture - Peoples Garden School Pilot Program (Deadline: 10/8/10)

The purpose of the Peoples Garden School Pilot Program is to develop and run community gardens at high-poverty schools, and to teach youths involved in the gardens about agriculture production practices, diet, and nutrition.

 

Sara Lee Foundation – Foundation Grants (Deadline: Rolling)

 

The Sara Lee Foundation supports nonprofit organizations with clearly defined missions and programs addressing the following areas: food related programs (including food insecurity, nutrition education, and healthy and active lifestyles), women's self-sufficiency programs, and diversity through highly visible cultural programs.

LEGO Children's Fund - Child Education, Technology and Communication Grants (Deadline: 10/15/10)

 

The LEGO Children’s Fund will provide quarterly grants for programs that have specific, identifiable needs in the areas of early childhood education and development that is directly related to creativity, and/or technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunities.

News Alerts

CDC Analyzes High School Athletes and Heat Related Illness

Heat related illness in high school athletes causes them collectively to lose more than 9,000 days of play time each year according to a study published in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention August 20, 2010 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The study looked at data from the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System between the years of 2005 and 2009.  The data was gathered on nine sports and used a sample of 100 high schools. The highest rate of time lost to heat related illness was among football players and the time-loss heat illnesses occurred most frequently during August while practicing or playing football. The study advises high school athletic programs to implement the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s heat-acclimatization guidelines and for athletes, parents, coaches, and trainers to know the signs and symptoms of heat related illness and how to best prevent it.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5932a1.htm?s_cid=mm5932a1_w

http://www.nata.org/health-issues/heat-acclimatization

New Resources

CHA Transformation: Children and Youth, published by the Urban Institute, examines the welfare of children relocated from the public housing developments of the Chicago Housing Authority through the HOPE IV Panel study. Since the baseline in 2001, the study has documented improvements as well as areas of concern.  Environmental safety and health risks have decreased, but the social environment, including gangs, still pose serious problems. http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=412185

Childhood Obesity: The New Tobacco, published in Health Affairs, discusses the need for childhood obesity prevention to become a social movement, similar to previous campaigns to prevent smoking and tobacco. Tobacco control became successful as a public health movement by changing social norms and framing tobacco companies as a common enemy. The movement to overcome childhood obesity has not unified into a cohesive movement or public health threat. However, according to the researchers, framing obesity as a common threat can lead to consensus regarding the interventions needed to achieve healthier children and communities. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/3/388?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=obesity&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

School Health: Resource Brief, assembled by the Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, is a database of organizations and topics related to school health. The resources include topics such as abstinence education, pregnancy prevention, bullying, overweight in children and adolescents, and many more. http://www.mchlibrary.info/guides/schoolhealth.html

Job Opportunities

Riverside Community Care – Developmental Specialist IDDSC (Somerville, MA)

Riverside Community Care provides in home counseling and health services to children ages 0-3. The Developmental Specialist is responsible for conducting developmental assessments, providing service coordination, providing direct developmental services, and working with parents and caretakers to teach them how to help the children progress developmentally. A successful candidate will possess a Bachelors degree with at least four courses in child and family development and a minimum of one to three years of experience. A Masters degree is preferred. Bilingual abilities in English and either Spanish or Portuguese are desired. A driver’s license and personal vehicle is required for local travel. For more information and to apply for this position, please visit: http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/394376-123/c 

SCO Family of Services – Nurses, Occupational and Physical Therapists, Residential Therapists (Bronx, NY)

SCO Family of Services is hiring staff for Christopher School, a twelve month therapeutic residential school for children ages 14-21 with developmental disabilities. The school has several positions available, including nurses (New York state certified, RN with Bachelors degree preferred), New York certified Occupational Therapists, New York certified Physical Therapists, and Recreational Therapists (with a Bachelors in education or recreation).  For more information and to apply to this position, please visit: http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/394365-20/c 

Bellevue School District - Substitute School Nurse (Bellevue, WA)

Bellevue School District is seeking Substitute School Nurses. Position responsibilities include developing student health plans, monitoring student health records, treating student and staff illness and injury, managing screening programs, and providing training to staff and students on health related topics.  \A successful candidate will have a Bachelors of Science in Nursing, current Washington state RN licensure, and possess or be eligible for an ESA certification.  For more information and to apply for this position, please visit: https://employment.bsd405.org/JobPosting.aspx?JPID=2764

Mankato Publis School District – School Nurse Substitute (Mankato, MN)

Mankato Public School District is seeking a School Nurse Substitute.  The School Nurse Substitute will be responsible for filling in for absent School Nurses. A valid Minnesota license as a School Nurse is required.  For more information and to apply to this position, please visit: http://k12jobspot.com/minnesota-teaching-jobs/150319?ref=indeed.com

Glendale YWCA – Executive Director (Glendale, CA)

The Glendale YWCA is seeking an Executive Director. The purpose of the YWCA of Glendale is to empower women, girls, and children through education and intervention to achieve independence, health, well-being, self sufficiency, and a life free from violence.  The Glendale YWCA runs three primary programs: domestic violence program, a screening program for low-income women over 40 for breast and cervical cancer, and recreational programs.  Position responsibilities include: overseeing all staff, running the YWCA programs, facilitating program development, improving financial performance, and promoting the organization in the community.  A successful candidate will possess a Bachelors degree (Masters preferred) and five years of experience as an executive director.  For more information and to apply to this position, please visit: http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/394648-181/c

Peer Health Exchange – Executive Director (New York, NY)

Peer Health Exchange (PHE) is a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide teenagers with the knowledge and skills to make healthy decisions by providing health education to high school students. The  Executive Director is responsible for developing, managing, growing, and evaluating the PHE program in New York City.  Additional position responsibilities include raising funds for the program, managing the New York City program associates, developing and managing the board of overseers, and providing fiscal and organizational oversight. A successful candidate will have a Bachelors degree and at least five years of leadership experience. An advanced degree is preferred. For more information and to apply to this position, please visit: http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/388071-119/c