Statewide Flu Shot Day is September 26, Flu Prevention Campaign Emphasizes "get your shot, consult a doc, prevent the spread"
"Focus on Flu" is a statewide campaign launched in Frankfort today to prevent another epidemic-level flu season like the one last year that hit every region of the state, infected 10,500 Kentuckians and led to the deaths of 325 people, including five children. The campaign urges Kentuckians to get their flu shots on Kentucky Flu Shot Day, which is September 26, or at least by the end of October, for maximum protection.
The Kentucky Medical Association, Kentucky Foundation for Medical Care and Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky are joining together to launch a statewide multimedia
Focus on Flu
campaign to minimize the impact of flu in the upcoming season. The campaign will focus on boosting flu vaccinations, helping Kentuckians understand when they should consult a doctor regarding signs that they have the flu, and promoting public health flu prevention strategies.
Foundation Lauds Historic FDA Efforts to Reverse Epidemic of Teen Vaping
The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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oday ordered five e-cigarette marketers to develop plans within 60 days to prevent teens from using their products. The FDA said it may require companies to revise how they market these products, stop distributing to retailers who sell to kids, and take flavored e-cigarette products off the market. The agency also sent 1,300 warning letters to retailers who illegally sold e-cigarettes to minors.
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Howard L. Bost Memorial Health Policy Forum
Kentucky, along with other regions in the U.S., suffers from an addiction epidemic. While opioid misuse has assumed the face of addiction, the underlying causes and existing treatment of addiction lay a complex foundation for what has become a crisis in America, and in Kentucky. Addiction is a complex and chronic brain condition that leads to social, economic and health dysfunction.
The 2018 Bost Forum will explore addiction, focusing first on where we stand as a state and on the national stage, then delving into a more detailed examination of the underlying causes of the epidemic and how we might begin to heal our residents.
The one-day forum will begin with a panel of experts who will discuss Kentucky's addiction burden and the human and economic toll. A second panel of experts from various national and state agencies will then discuss current and potential solutions to treating addiction, with Q&A from the audience.
Following these panels, we will offer three discussions narrowing the focus to specific issues raised by Kentucky's addiction epidemic. Conference attendees may select two of the three discussions.
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Workshop:
Smoke-free Campaigns: Making Your Community a Better Place to BREATHE
September 27, 2018, 9A
M-12PM ET
Northern Kentucky Health Department
8001 Veterans Memorial Dr., Florence, KY
100% smoke-free policies are a vaccine to protect your community from heart and lung diseases and cancer. Is your community ready for a smoke-free law? Discover policy change strategies that work.
Learning objectives:
- Discuss the population health benefits of 100% smoke-free laws.
- Apply a tested policy advocacy model to taking action for smoke-free laws.
- Describe common opportunities and challenges to smoke-free policy advocacy.
Costs associated with this workshop are fully underwritten by the co-sponsors, Interact for Health and the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is pleased to co-sponsor this workshop as part of their Health for a Change training series. There is no charge to attend the workshop.
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Webinar: Learning How to Measure Your Advocacy Efforts: An Introductory Webinar
October 4, 2018, 1PM-2PM ET
Advocacy evaluation capacity and practice are critical to success. If you are to understand your environment, implement interventions effectively, and make change, it is necessary to collect high quality data. Innovation Network will conduct a free one-hour webinar to provide an introduction to advocacy evaluation. Through this webinar, Innovation will offer an overview of advocacy evaluation, and provide relevant approaches and theories associated with measuring advocacy efforts. This event is presented in partnership with Interact for Health.
Learning objectives:
- See how evaluation can add value to your work
- Describe the stages of the evaluation lifecycle
- Define and demystify advocacy evaluation
- Learn about approaches and methods to advocacy evaluation
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Workshop:
Working with the Media
October 24, 2018, 12:30P
M-3PM CT
McCracken County Public Library
555 Washington Street, Paducah, KY 42003
Join us for this FREE in-person workshop in Paducah, Kentucky. The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is offering an in-person workshop to help nonprofit organizations work effectively with the media to improve news coverage of their efforts. This FREE workshop has limited seating, so register early! We thank the McCracken County Public Library for hosting this event.
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Establish a basic understanding of media messaging
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Learn key strategies for a media interview
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Understand the basics of an effective news release
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Identify pre-interview preparation techniques
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Workshop:
Learning How to Measure your Advocacy Efforts: An Interactive Workshop
October 25, 2018, 10:00A
M-3PM ET
Northern Kentucky Health Department
8001 Veterans Memorial Drive, Florence, KY 41042
Are you working to make policy change in your city or state? How do you know if your efforts are working? How are you using data to tell your story? In partnership with Interact for Health and Foundation for Healthy Kentucky, Innovation Network (www.innonet.org) will conduct a one-hour introductory webinar (Oct 4) and half-day workshop that will offer information and tools necessary for measuring and communicating the process and impact of your advocacy and policy change efforts. The workshop is highly interactive and will provide ample opportunity to apply skills addressed in the workshop directly to your own work.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the unique elements of measuring advocacy and policy change efforts
- Apply advocacy strategy frameworks to your work
- Learn how to approach your strategy and evaluation with the right questions and measures that match your organization's needs and capacity
- Explore appropriate data collection methods
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Informational Website: Keep Kids E-Cigarette Free
Learn what e-cigarettes are, the risks of e-cigarettes for kids, how e-cigarettes work and more.
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2025 Beverage Calories Initiative: Report on 2017 Progress toward the National Calorie Goal
The beverage industry has committed to the goal of a 20% reduction in calories per person by 2025. Its yearly progress report for 2017 shows that the beverage industry is not on track to meet that goal. Sales of sugary drinks decreased, but by a mere 2.8 calories per person per day (a 1.4% decrease) from 2014 to 2017.
Other findings:
- The decline in soda calories since 2014 is offset (though not exceeded) by the increase in sports drinks, energy drinks, and ready-to-drink teas and coffees.
- The decline in sugary drink calories in retail have been mostly offset by increases in calories from fountain drinks and food service.
- Low- and no-calorie carbonated soft drinks continue to decline, though the rate of decline may have slowed.
- There has been some growth in purchases of smaller containers; but there also are increases in larger containers.
(see appendix for total volume, share of volume, share of calories, container sizes and other data)
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Annie E. Casey Foundation ARC Reflections Training Program
Because foster parents play a critical role in supporting children in foster care, who often have experienced trauma, the Casey Foundation developed ARC Reflections, a nine-session program that child welfare agencies can use to train foster parents to better care for children who have had traumatic experiences.
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US Department of Agriculture
PROGRAMS IN THE LOCAL FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN 2-pager
This USDA 2-pager includes all grants, loans and technical assistance opportunities relevant to local food and food systems work.
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Public Health Law Center Webinar Recording:
What We Can Do To Rein In JUUL: A Policy Discussion
The second in their series of Tobacco Control Legal Consortium/Public Health Law Center webinars on the emergence of JUUL, the e-cigarette product that has become extremely popular among kids and adults alike. In this webinar, legal and policy experts discuss the recent steps that the FDA has taken to regulate JUUL and other e-cigarette products, as well as options for state and local governments to supplement and enhance federal regulation.
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New FAQ on Tobacco Treatment Coverage for Health Professionals
State legislation enacted in 2017 effectively reduces barriers to tobacco cessation treatment. Under this law, Kentuckians who have
fully-funded health benefit plans, Medicaid, or are receiving services through Managed Care Organizations are entitled to obtain comprehensive tobacco treatment.
The Kentucky Cancer Consortium Lung Cancer Network's new FAQ on Tobacco Treatment Coverage in Kentucky is targeted for health professionals. Please disseminate this new product to all health professionals in your region.
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Partnerships for Health Equity and Opportunity: A Healthcare Playbook for Community Developers
This playbook from Public Health Institute's Build Healthy Places Network guides community developers toward partnerships with hospitals and healthcare systems. As stewards for the communities they serve, the community development sector develops and finances the physical spaces, infrastructure, and essential services needed to live a healthy and productive life and can serve as an action arm for advancing population health and health equity.
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Tips for Teachers: Promoting Healthy Eating & Physical Activity in the Classroom
This document produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes 11 ways to promote healthy eating and physical activity in a school classroom.
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Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Scorecard
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a new website called the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Scorecard. The stated purpose of the website is to "increase public transparency about the programs' administration and outcomes. The Scorecard includes measures voluntarily reported by states, as well as federally reported measures in three areas:
- State Health System Performance
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State Administrative Accountability
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Federal Administrative Accountability
The site includes data that allows comparisons on how state Medicaid programs are performing on various health measures, such as immunization rates, the rate of children receiving regular check-ups, the rate of beneficiaries diagnosed with substance-abuse problems receiving treatment, as well as about how long it takes CMS to review states' waiver requests, state plan amendments and the rates paid to Medicaid managed-care plans.
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Helping Children and Youth Who Have Traumatic Experiences Report
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released a new report: Helping Children and Youth Who Have Traumatic Experiences. The report addresses the issue of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and shows how children and youth who have experienced traumatic events are at risk of developing serious emotional disturbances or serious mental illness, along with other health problems. The report also highlights how children who experience trauma and receive treatment through systems of care show significant improvements in their behavioral and emotional health. This framework enhances care coordination across multiple systems that work with children's services.
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Has JUUL Labs reached out to schools in your community about a pilot youth prevention/education program?
If so, please let [email protected] know! Tobacco companies have a long history of promoting school programs that are ineffective or actually encourage smoking.
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Pre-Conference Workshop: Health Insurance Literacy Training (2018 Annual KY Association of Community Health Workers Conference)
September 26, 2018,
1PM-5PM ET
Louisville, KY
Join Kentucky Voices for Health for a half-day workshop to learn more about healthcare system and policy changes and how they impact you and members of your community.
Topics include:
- Overview of U.S. health care system and health reform policies
- Kentucky's Medicaid waiver (KY HEALTH)
- Promoting health insurance literacy
- Assisting consumers with navigating the health care system
Tools and resources to help you better assist your clients' access health care and maintain healthy lifestyles will also be shared. This will be an interactive workshop where we will also provide opportunities for you to share your valuable stories and experiences in supporting the health and well being of Kentuckians.
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2018 3rd Annual KY Association of Community Health Workers Conference
September 27, 2018,
8AM-4:30PM ET
Louisville, KY
Learn about how Community Health Workers are vital to the movement for a healthy KY. Areas of interest this year are: healthcare coverage and access, stress toxicity and reduction, and implicit bias. Refreshing information that you won't want to miss! Agenda coming soon!
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Webinar: Walk Into Action: Walking and Walkability Policy Issues
October 10, 2018,
2PM ET
Join America Walks to learn about how you can use your voice and your vote to support walking and walkability by engaging communities and elected officials on a variety of intersecting issues. This webinar assumes some knowledge of issues related to walking and walkability.
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Children's Environmental Health Summit
October 11, 2018,
8:30AM-4PM ET
Georgetown, KY
The Kentucky Department for Public Health in collaboration with the Kentucky Population Health Institute, WEDCO District Health Department, and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Department of Environmental Health is hosting the Third Annual Children's Environmental Health Summit on Thursday, October 11, 2018 (National Children's Environmental Health Day).
The target audience includes: decision/policy makers, administrators, teachers, childcare personnel, pediatricians, nurses, academia, environmental educators and providers, community health workers, and state and local public health staff who help assure a safe school, home, play, preschool and community environment for children.
Topics that will be covered include adverse childhood events, JUUL and other POD systems, lead, child safety, preparedness, nutrition, prenatal exposure, asthma, rural health, healthy homes, built environment, green and healthy schools and childcare centers, community engagement, health equity, and more!
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Kentucky Nonprofit Leadership Forum
October 17-18, 2018,
8AM-4:30PM ET
Lexington, KY
The Kentucky Nonprofit Leadership Forum is your source for the latest nonprofit management best practices, guidance and networking. The only statewide gathering of nonprofit leaders provides you with an opportunity to gain the skills and information you need to effectively lead your organization and serve your community. The forum will include informative speakers, interactive sessions, networking opportunities and awards celebrating the nonprofit sector and its leaders.
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Kentucky Voices for Health Annual Meeting: Breaking Down Barriers to Health Equity for Kentuckians
October 19, 2018,
9AM-5PM ET
Lexington, KY
This meeting brings together health advocates, healthcare providers, faith leaders, researchers, insurers, and policymakers from across the Commonwealth to discuss the ripple effects of barriers to care, which extend far beyond our health to impact our economy and our democracy. Speakers will discuss the disparate ways barriers to care impact the lives of Kentuckians and present opportunities for creating a healthcare system that promotes health equity, economic prosperity, and civic engagement for all.
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12th Annual Addiction & Compulsive Behaviors Symposium
October 20, 2018,
8AM-12:30PM CT
Paducah, KY
Baptist Health Paducah and Four Rivers Behavioral Health present the 12th Annual Addiction & Compulsive Behaviors Symposium at the Baptist Health Paducah Barnes Auditorium. Objectives for this conference include:
- understanding teens
- basic principles and advanced concepts in pain management
- disparities in the addiction crisis
- marijuana- Fact vs. Fiction
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Collaborative for Children of Addicted Parents Presents: Family-Centered Approach for Children of Addicted Parents
November 14, 2018, 8AM-5PM ET
The Collaborative for Children of Addicted Parents(CCAP), GLAD House, and Cincinnati Children's will be holding
their
third annual conference at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky. Nationally known, Dr. Ira Chasnoff will be one of the keynote speakers.
You are invited to submit a session proposal for the conference. Proposals should explore family-centered practices utilized to provide services to children impacted by addiction. Call for abstracts.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Special Solicitation on Beverage Consumption in Early Childhood
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Healthy Eating Research program has released a Special Solicitation on Beverage Consumption in Early Childhood. The call for proposals focuses exclusively on research that informs the development of policy and environmental strategies that:
1. decrease consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and/or
2. increase access to and consumption of safe water
among
0- to 5-year-olds
in the United States, with a priority on lower-income and racial and ethnic minority populations that are at-risk of poor nutrition and obesity.
There are two phases for the application: 1) A Concept Paper and 2) Full Proposal (for invited applicants only)
Grant Amount: Up to $300,000 for each grant award for up to 24 months
Concept Paper Deadline: October 3, 2018
Read more.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Systems for Action: Systems and Services Research for a Culture of Health Funding
Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that builds a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation's fragmented medical, social, and public health systems. Studies conducted through the S4A program test innovative mechanisms for aligning the delivery and financing systems for medical, social, and public health services, with a focus on estimating their impact on health and health equity. S4A uses a wide research lens that includes and extends beyond medical care and public health to incorporate social service systems-such as housing; transportation; education; employment; food and nutrition assistance; child and family support; criminal and juvenile justice; and economic and community development.
Award Amount: Up to 6 awards of $250,000 over a 24 months period
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Whole Kids Foundation Gardens Grant Programs
The Whole Kids Foundation in partnership with FoodCorps has opened applications for their Gardens Grant Program to support a new or existing edible garden at a:
*K-12 school
*501(c)(3) Non-profit working in partnership with a K-12 school
*501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Grant Amount: $2,000
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2019 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize
The RWJF Culture of Health Prize recognizes communities that have come together around a commitment to health, opportunity, and equity through collaboration and inclusion, especially with historically marginalized populations and those facing the greatest barriers to good health. The Prize honors those communities that are working to give everyone the opportunity to live well, including residents that are often left behind.
Prize includes: $25,000 cash prize, customized communications material and training, national and local promotion
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Fuel Up to Play 60
Funding for physical activity and nutrition programs are available to schools that want to jump start healthy changes.
Funding amount: up to $4,000 per year to qualified K-12 Schools
Application Deadline Fall: November 7, 2018
Read more.
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