December 2017  


  


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 January 2017's being Child Development.

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      
 
Wednesday, January 18th
FREE Ethics Training
1-4pm
OU-Tulsa, 4502 E 41st St. Tulsa, OK
Ethics Training on working with transgender persons
Taylor Burns, LCSW, Dr. Arrowhead, MD, Allysa, JD
CEUs for LSCW, RN, LPC, and LADC
 
Saturday, January 21st
Women's March on Oklahoma
10 AM - 3 PM
Oklahoma State Capitol
The Women's March is a national movement to unify and empower everyone who stands for human rights, civil liberties, and social justice for all. We gather in community to find healing and strength through tolerance, civility, and compassion. All people are welcome to join as we unite locally and nationally.
 
Friday, January 27th 
CHAT- Life Course Perspective 
10am-noon 
Indian Health Care Resource Center 
Cameron Event Center, Middle Room 
550 S. Peoria
 
Funding Opportunities      

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to encourage applications that employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 21). Applications to promote positive health behavior(s) should target social and cultural factors, including, but not limited to: schools, families, communities, population, food industry, age-appropriate learning tools and games, social media, social networking, technology and mass media. Topics to be addressed in this announcement include: effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy behavior choices; identification of the appropriate stage of influence for learning sustainable lifelong health behaviors; the role of technology and new media in promoting healthy behavior; identification of factors that support healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations, identification of barriers to healthy behaviors; and, identification of mechanisms and mediators that are common to the development of a range of habitual health behaviors. Given the many factors involved in developing sustainable health behaviors, applications from multidisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged. The ultimate goal of this FOA is to promote research that identifies and enhances processes that promote sustainable positive behavior or changes social and cultural norms that influence health and future health behaviors. 
 
 
The Funding Opportunity Announcement will provide competitive grant awards under the authority of Sections 10211-10214 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148; Affordable Act). The Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) grant program provides support for States and tribes to develop and implement programs to improve the educational, health, and social outcomes for expectant and parenting teens, women, fathers and their families. The PAF aims to strengthen access to and completion of education (secondary and postsecondary); improve child and maternal health outcomes; improve pregnancy planning and spacing and reduce the likelihood of repeat teen pregnancies; increase parenting skills for mothers, fathers, and families; strengthen co-parenting relationships and marriage where appropriate, increase positive paternal involvement; decrease intimate partner violence; and raise awareness of available resources. For purposes of this funding announcement, the priority populations and settings include both women and men who are expecting a child, teens of high-school age, students enrolled in institutions of higher education and their families including, but not limited to spouses, partners, and children.

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Continuing Education
 
Pregnancy
Babies and Kids
Family Health
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