October 2016 

  


Optimizing the health and well-being of women, infants, children and families through broad-based community engagement and advocacy within a local system of health education, prevention
services and community support
to eliminate health disparities.
Welcome to The Family Health Coalition Newsletter. The Family Health Coalition focuses its efforts on four areas: prevention, health & wellness, early development, and medical neighborhood development. Each month we will focus on specific areas with October 2016's being Women and Infant Health. If you would like to include your event in the monthly calendar of events, please contact Laura Ross-White at lrw@csctulsa.org

Complied by: Jason Featherngill and Tara Branson
Edited by: Kendal McKitrick
Calendar of Events: 

Friday, October 14th
CHAT+: Breastfeeding
2pm-4pm
Community Service Council, 16 E. 16th Street
1st Floor Large Conference Room
 
Wednesday October 26th- Thursday, October 27th
Empowering Oklahoma's Women Conference
Understanding the power of postpartum depression, the two-generation approach, pregnancy and parenting alone, and much more!
NO COST TO ATTEND
OU Tulsa Learning Center, 4502 E. 41st. Tulsa, OK 74135
CEU's available for LCSW, RN and LPC.
 
Friday, October 28th
Dual Language Families
10am-12pm
Indian Health Resource Center, Cameron Event Center, Middle room
NO COST TO ATTEND
550 S. Peoria
Presented by the Family Health Coalition, Community Home Action Team

Funding Opportunities 
   
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health
Deadline: Oct. 6, 2016 
The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of Research on Women's Health, along with participating NIH Institutes and Centers, invite institutional career development award applications for Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Career Development Programs. These programs will support mentored research career development of junior faculty members who recently completed clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships and will be engaged in interdisciplinary basic, translational, behavioral, clinical and/or health services research relevant to women's health. For more information, go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-16-013.html 
 
National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep Program
Deadline: Oct. 27, 2016
The Maternal and Child Health Bureau is accepting applications for the National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep (NAPPSS) Program. The goal of this program is to make safe infant sleep and breastfeeding national norms. Over the next five years, the cooperative agreement recipient will work with public, private and professional organizations through three areas of activity: coalition building and maintenance, implementation of NAPPSS and safe infant sleep bundles. For more information, go to 
http://mchb.hrsa.gov/fundingopportunities/Default.aspx?id=982372db-58b5-453f-bfc6-bfc9bee9caa2 
 
Legislative Policy Highlights 
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