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Updates for the
week of February 6, 2006
Steps to a Healthier WA News and Upcoming Activities
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Our next Community Conference
Call will be February 8, from 11:00am to 12:00pm, PST. Please call
1-800-490-7515 and enter code 3579438 to participate.
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Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Releases New National Child Health Chartbook! A new
HRSA publication, "The Health and Well-Being of Children:
A Portrait of States and the Nation 2005," indicates
that, in general, U.S. children are in good health and grow
up in healthy environments. It also points to a need to
improve access to health care for children from low-income
families, those with no health insurance, and children with
special health care needs.
http://www.nschdata.org/DesktopDefault.aspx
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The Washington State Tobacco
Program has a campaign on secondhand smoke and asthma.
Please find the information at:
http://www.doh.wa.gov/tobacco/media/secondhandcampaign.htm.
Previous year's campaigns can also be found at the same
site.
If you have any questions about this particular campaign,
please contacting Scott Schoengarth at
scott.schoengarth@doh.wa.gov
or 360-236-3634.
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American Lung Association
State of Tobacco Control 2005 Report Released January 10th
On January 10 the American Lung Association State of Tobacco
Control 2005 report was released. The report grades state
tobacco control policy in four areas: tobacco prevention
spending, smoke free air, cigarette tax and youth access.
The report also grades the federal government in four areas:
FDA regulation of tobacco products, cessation, cigarette tax
and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
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Harlem School Gets High
Health Marks
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, January 16, 2006 , Filed at 7:46
p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sixth-grader Essence Holmes ate her chicken
and rice but shoved the medley of zucchini, red pepper and
broccoli to the side of her plate. ''I don't eat
vegetables,'' she said firmly. ''They're nasty.''
That is one of the challenges facing Promise Academy, a
charter school in Harlem that is trying to fight the rising
tide of childhood obesity by serving food that is
nutritious, low fat and, when possible, locally grown.
Lunch might be turkey chili with brown rice and braised red
cabbage. The milk, from upstate New York, is free of
hormones and antibiotics. The juice is 100 percent fruit
juice, and just one serving is permitted. Dessert is an
apple. As educators around the country struggle to
provide healthful school lunches -- and to get junk
food-happy children to eat them -- Promise Academy is taking
an unusually aggressive stance.
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Tools
Grant and Funding Opportunities
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New Voices: Community New Ventures
Deadline: February 8, 2006
The Institute for Interactive Journalism (J-Lab) invites
U.S. nonprofit groups and education organizations to apply
for funding to launch new community news ventures and to
cooperate with J-Lab in spotlighting best practices and
lessons learned. Each project may receive as much as
$17,000.
For more information, go to:
http://www.j-newvoices.org
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Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2006 Call
for Presentations:
The submission proposal
DEADLINE is March 1, 2006
The National Center for Bicycling & Walking is accepting
presentation proposals for the Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2006
conference. Pro Walk/Pro Bike is our biennial conference for
the growing number of professionals and advocates involved
in the bicycling and walking fields. Our first conference
was held in in 1980 in Asheville, North Carolina. Our most
recent conference was held in 2004 in Victoria, British
Columbia. This year's conference will be held in Madison,
Wisconsin, from September 5-8.
You'll be notified on or before March 30 if your
presentation has been accepted.
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NEW: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces New
Initiative to Promote Healthy Eating Among Children
Deadline: March 7, 2006
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (
http://www.rwjf.org/ ) has launched
Healthy Eating Research (http://www.healthyeatingresearch.org/
), a five-year, $16 million program to
evaluate changes in policies and environments that can
promote healthy eating among children.
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Call for Abstracts: Rural
Women's Health Conference
Announcement: Call for Abstracts deadline March 17 -
tell your colleagues!
More Information at:
www.hmc.psu.edu/ce/RWH2006
or 717-531-6483
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Starbucks Foundation: Literacy programs that address 21st
Century learning
Deadlines: March 1 and September 1, 2006
The Starbucks Foundation funds programs for youth ages 6-18
that integrate literacy with personal and civic action in
the communities where they live. The Starbucks Foundation
invites letters of inquiry from qualifying 501(c) 3
organizations that work with underserved youth in the fields
of literacy (reading, writing, and creative/media arts) and
environmental literacy. Grants range from $5,000-$20,000.
For more information, go to:
http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/grantinfo.asp.
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Learn and Serve America Community-Based Grant
Program
Due Date: 3/7/2006 Match Requirement
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9th annual National Native
American Youth Initiative program:
National Native American Youth Initiative (NNAYI) June 17th
- 25th, 2006 The Association of American Indian Physicians
is now accepting applications for the 9th annual National
Native American Youth Initiative program to be held June
17th-25th 2006 in Washington D.C.
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Women's Health Funding Opportunities:
http://www.naccho.org/topics/fundingguide/fundingmap.cfm |
Report
Conferences or
Training
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Improving Nutrition and
Reducing Obesity: Local Government Strategies:
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA),
the premier local government leadership and management
organization, will offer Improving Nutrition and Reducing
Obesity: Local Government Strategies, on Thursday, March
2, 2006, from 2-3:30 p.m. EST. This 90-minute web cast will
provide strategic, practical tools communities can use to
develop policies and implement practices that reduce obesity
by improving access to nutritious food. The web cast will
feature Mark Winne, a food policy expert who has extensive
experience working with communities, including the City of
Hartford, Conn., Rosemarie Cordello with the
Portland/Multnomah County Food Policy Council, as well as
representatives from jurisdictions that have successfully
applied these techniques. This web cast, which is free to the
first 100 registrants, addresses the ICMA University
Practice Area #6, Strategic Leadership. For more information
about the web cast, call toll-free at 877/ 865-4326.
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Satellite and internet
broadcast, UNC Minority Health Conference:
8th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture,
"Collaborative Research with Communities: Value Added and
Challenges Faced"
February 24 (Friday), 2-3:30 p.m. EST
The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speaker: Professor Meredith Minkler, Dr.P.H., UC
Berkeley SPH professor of health and social behavior. The
complex nature of many minority health problems and the
failure of much traditional research to acknowledge the
strengths of communities of color as potential partners in
research have lead to growing excitement over a new paradigm
that stresses action-oriented research with, rather than on,
minority communities. This keynote presentation will use
case studies to illustrate the value added for communities
and health researchers by community-based participatory
research approaches. Core principles of such collaborative
research will be illustrated, as will the ways in which this
approach builds community capacity, focuses research
questions on health issues that matter to minority
communities, improves cultural sensitivity in all phases of
the research process, and helps translate findings into
action to help eliminate health disparities.
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80th Annual American School
Health Association Conference
The American School Health Association invites submissions
for our 80th Annual American School Health Association
Conference. October 11 - 14, 2006 Millennium Hotel, St.
Louis, Missouri, Application deadline: February 10, 2006. The 2006 ASHA
conference theme is Healthy Bodies, Health Minds: The Mental
Health Connection.
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You are invited to the 2nd Northwest Healthy Foods Expo,
February 8, 2006
Are you responsible for buying or choosing foods for
Schools, Childcare Centers, Colleges, Universities,
Hospitals, Company/organization worksites, or other places
that serve food? Are you looking for healthy choices
for food and vending services that are nutritious, available
in single-serve portions, within your budget, and great
tasting? The Healthy Foods Expo brings together food
buyers that want to provide healthy foods for their
customers with food suppliers that produce and sell healthy
foods.
Click here for the Expo Flyer.
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The Washington State Collaborative
introduces strategies to help healthcare professionals
improve the quality of care for patients with chronic
conditions, in particular diabetes and those at risk for
cardiovascular disease. Collaborative 5,
February 13-14, 2006, will offer separate tracks for teams that
would like to focus on prevention strategies for
cardiovascular disease or diabetes management.
Click
here for more information.
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Washington State Diabetes Network Second
Annual Meeting
Save the Date – March 14, 2006 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tukwila Area
More than 1.4 million people in Washington have either
diabetes or pre-diabetes. In order to prevent this costly,
disabling disease and improve the health and longevity of
those living with diabetes, nothing less than the
coordinated effort of everyone working on diabetes
prevention and control throughout the state is required.
Join the Washington State Diabetes Network at its second
annual meeting to enhance the work of diabetes prevention
and control on March 14, 2006.
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International Congress on Physical
Activity and Public Health
April 17-20, 2006.
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Save the
Date: 6th Annual Summer Evaluation Institute at CDC,
June 12-14, 2006
at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, GA. The
Institute welcomes staff at
all
levels--Federal, state, local, and community--who do or use
program evaluation. This year's
Institute is being co-sponsored with the American Evaluation
Association (AEA) and we anticipate a larger and more
diverse crowd of participants and offerings than ever. As
in the past, the Institute's three days of training will
include both longer skill-building sessions and small,
interactive sessions with national faculty. our
Institute web site www.evaluationinstitute.org
with information on
agenda, course selection,
and lodging information.
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CDC's 2006 National Health Promotion
Conference
Join local, state and national public health leaders,
businesses, communities, researchers,
policymakers, communicators, and other professionals to
discuss new directions in health promotion.
Together, we will lay the foundation for a national public
health agenda that is focused on the
broadest concepts of health promotion and wellness delivery.
The conference tracks include Nontraditional Partnerships;
Innovative Approaches to Public Health Practice; Translating
Science and Evaluating Results; Health Policy and
Communications; Implementing Best Practices at the Local
Level; and Emerging Issues and Hot Topics in Public Health.
Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, September 12-14, 2006
Visit
www.cdc.gov/cochp for
updates and more information.
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SAVE THE DATE: Quality Health Care for
Culturally Diverse Populations
October 17-20, 2006, Renaissance Hotel, 515 Madison Street,
Seattle, WA. For more information:
www.diversityRx.org/ccconf
, e-mail: ccconf@drexeledu
or call 215-762-7638. Please note that February 28,
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