Weekly Insider 19.06.2007

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 this month at the Center

  • June/July E-journal
    -- Tobacco Still Biggest Health Threat for Kids
    -- School Wellness Policies and the Fight on Childhood Obesity
    --'Connecting with the Younger Demographic' Digital Food Ads Target Children, Teens
    -- It's Effective, But Is It Safe? Debating FDA's Rules on Drugs

  • InFocus: Adolescents and STDs
    www.healthinschools.org/focus/2007/no1.htm

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New resources

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Important topic

In preparation for the 4th of July Holiday, here are some fireworks safety tips:

Upcoming meetings

  • Baltimore, MD: The Healthy Teen Network "On Their Turf: Creative Approaches to Supporting Teens and Young Families" Conference. November 14-17, 2007. For more information please visit
    http://healthyteenconference.org/generalinfo.aspx
  • New York, NY: American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. March 24-28, 2007. For more information please visit http://www.aera.net/

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Previously posted meetings

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Job opportunities

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New resources

Patterns of Childhood Obesity Prevention Legislation in the United States, an article in the July 2007 edition of Preventing Chronic Disease, tracks proposed and adopted childhood obesity prevention bills and resolutions in all fifty states from 2003-2005. Legislation related to school vending machines, physical activity in schools as well as community-wide healthy living initiatives were the focus of this article. 717 bills and 134 resolutions related to this obesity prevention were included in this analysis. To access this article, visit http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/jul/06_0082.htm

In an editorial titled Do Public Schools Provide Optimal Support for Children With Diabetes?, also in the July 2007 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, researchers present results from a survey of school faculty and staff in Oregon related to diabetes management in schools. To access this article, visit http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/jul/06_0124.htm

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Job opportunities

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools -- Research Scientist (Washington, DC)
The Research Scientist will serve as a project advisor to a Robert Wood Johnson mental health program targeting immigrant and refugee children through their school. He or she will be responsible for a wide variety of tasks including research, project management and technical assistance with a small team of colleagues. To apply for this position please send a resume, cover letter and 2-4 page writing sample to Theresa Chapman at chapman@gwu.edu.

American Lung Association of Virginia -- Field Director for Training and Education (Alexandria, VA)
The Field Director for Training and Education will be responsible for implementing the Not-On-Tobacco smoking cessation and lifestyle change program for teen smokers, which will also include recruiting and training volunteer facilitators. This program is conducted in school-based health centers and has been ranked as a Model Program by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA). To apply for this position please send a resume and cover letter to Mary Etta Douglas at medouglas@lungva.org.

American Public Health Association -- Public Health Fellowships in Government (Washington, DC)
Fellows participating in this fellowship program will spend one year living in Washington, DC serving either on the legislative staff of a member of Congress or Congressional committee. He or she will be expected to provide public health guidance and communication to members of Congress and to the non-scientific community about public health issues. To apply for this fellowship, please visit http://www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/2C71FB08-BF30-40BA-AF39-2FD7CF8E3AC4/0/FellowshipAppv1.pdf the application must be completed by July 20, 2007.

Medical University of South Carolina -- School-Based Health Center Nurse Practitioner (North Charleston, SC)
The Nurse Practitioner will provide primary care services to pre-adolescent and adolescent students in a school-based health center. He or she will also act as a preceptor for Medical University of South Carolina NP students. The person in this position must have a graduate degree in Nursing and be certified as a pediatric or family nurse practitioner in the state of South Carolina. For more information please visit http://www.musc.edu/hrm/careers/staff.htm and search for Nurse Practitioner under College of Nursing. The job number is 043712.

Medical University of South Carolina – School-Based Health Center Medical/Administrative Assistant (Hollywood, SC)
The Medical and Administrative Assistant will provide medical and administrative support to a Nurse Practitioner in a school-based health center setting. He or she will perform vision, height, weight and hearing screenings and maintain student health and billing records. To apply for this position, please visit http://www.musc.edu/hrm/careers/staff.htm. The job requisition number is 043711.

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Grant alerts

Share Our Strength -- Great American Bake Sale® Grants  (Deadline: 7/13/07)
Share Our Strength is accepting applications for its Great American Bake Sale® Grants to support programs that work to increase the nutritious food available to low-income children when they are out of school.

Norman Foundation -- Civil Rights Grants  (Deadline: 7/17/07; Letter of Inquiry)
The Norman Foundation is accepting applications for its Civil Rights grants program to support projects that promote public education equity, particularly that involve parent and youth organizing.

American Academy of Pediatrics -- Community Access to Child Health Planning Funds Program (Pediatricians)  (Deadline: 7/31/07; Letter of Inquiry)
The American Academy of Pediatrics is accepting applications for its Community Access to Child Health Planning Funds program. The purpose of the program is to support projects by pediatricians that develop sustainable, community-based child health efforts to increase access to care and decrease health disparities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- Family Planning Services Grants  (Deadline: Varies by state)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is accepting applications for its Family Planning Services Grants program. The purpose of the program is to establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects in 21 designated states that focus on the following: (1) programs to assure ongoing family planning and related preventive health services that will improve the overall health of individuals; (2) programs to assure access to a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods, infertility services, effective contraceptive methods, services for adolescents, and related preventive health services including STD and HIV prevention education and testing, abstinence education, and cancer screening and prevention, and (3) programs to encourage the participation of families, parents, and/or other adults in the decision of minors seeking family planning services.

William T. Grant Foundation -- Youth Service Improvement Grants (New York metropolitan area)  (Deadline: 9/19/07)
The William T. Grant Foundation Youth Service Improvement Grants Program provides funding to community-based organizations in the New York metropolitan area that improve the quality of services for young people ages 8-25. Programs that target children who are not enrolled in school, are involved in foster care or juvenile justice programs, and those that work with students who are two or more years above-age for their grade will be given priority.

Staples Foundation for Learning® -- Funding for Educational Programs  (Deadline: 8/03/07)
The Staples Foundation for Learning® is accepting applications for its educational funding program to support local groups with programs and services that enable job skills and/or education for individuals, particularly for disadvantaged youth.

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News alerts

'Children's Congress' Calls Attention to Diabetes  
As they do every year, advocates for more federal spending to research and cure both forms of diabetes—type 1, formerly known as “juvenile diabetes” and type 2, formerly known as "adult onset diabetes"—brought a Children’s Congress made up of young diabetes patients to Capitol Hill this week, for a conference and congressional testimony sponsored largely by Novo Nordisk, manufacturer of insulin products and delivery devices such as the insulin pen.

Senate Bill Would Give SBHCs Medicaid and SCHIP Payments   
Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate June 20 would allow states to make school-based health centers (SBHCs) eligible for reimbursement under Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for comprehensive health and mental health services provided to children and adolescents who are enrolled in Medicaid and SCHIP.