AMCHP Member Briefs: July 26, 2016

July 26, 2016

These volunteer leaders were

elected by you to care for

AMCHP today and guide it into

the future. Here they share

information about themselves to

give you a new MCH connection

and a better understanding of

the board members' roles, or

simply to pique your interest in

the work of your peers.

This month, we have the privilege of introducing you to

board members Shirley Payne and Gina Pola-Money,

who were elected in 2016 to serve on the AMCHP Board

of Directors.

Shirley Payne, MPH, has been an AMCHP member

since 2013, serving in multiple volunteer capacities

including as an active participant in the AMCHP

Leadership Institute for CYSHCN Directors as well as the

New Director Mentor Program. She joined the Board of

Directors as the Region V Director representing Illinois,

Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Shirley earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a

Bachelor of Arts in African-American and African

Diaspora Studies from Indiana University in 2007, and

later earned her Master of Public Health degree from the

Indiana University School of Medicine, with

concentrations in epidemiology and behavioral health

science. She is pursuing her doctoral degree in Health

Behavior from the Indiana University School of Public

Health.

Shirley serves with the Division of Children’s Special

Heath Care Services (CSHCS) within the Indiana

Department of Health, where her primary responsibility is

to administer Indiana’s CSHCS program, which is a

supplemental coverage program that helps families of

children with serious, chronic medical conditions pay for

treatment related to their child’s condition. She also

serves as the state’s Title V Children and Youth with

Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) director and is

responsible for managing the CYSHCN portion of the

Title V Block Grant.

Shirley has been dedicated to serving the special needs

population for over seven years. Prior to working with the

state, she worked as a team leader with St. Vincent New

Hope (now New Hope of Indiana) in Indianapolis, Ind.,

and was instrumental in direct care coordination for

individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities

on state Medicaid waivers. This experience gave her the

desire to focus her career on maternal and child health,

in particular working on behalf of the special needs

population.

“I have an undeniable passion for helping others,” Shirely

said. “I have found that one of my greatest strengths is

the ability to help those who cannot help themselves,

need someone to advocate on their behalf, or motivate

them in order to help themselves. Serving on the board

allows me to do just that.”

“As a leader, I recognize that I am called to look beyond

my own interests and needs to ensure a collective voice

is represented for the entire maternal and child health

population,” she adds. “I feel a sense of responsibility to

ensure this happens for Region V.”

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Gina Pola-Money, A.S., Social

Sciences, has been an active

AMCHP member since 2001. She

joined the Board of Directors this

year as a family representative.

Gina has over 29 years of

experience navigating the health

care system for her children with

special health care needs,

including dealing with medically

complex, hospice and mental

health issues. She is director of Utah Family Voices

Family to Family Health Information Center, which

provides supports for family needs as well as information

to families and professionals about resources and health

care financing. Gina is also a member of the family

faculty of the Utah Regional LEND program, helping to

bring the family voice to leadership education for

professionals and gaining the perspective of her

professional partners.

"It is my greatest hope that I can give some of my

passion and commitment to the organization that has

done so much to help families of children and youth with

special health care needs, like mine,” Gina says.

Gina has also been actively involved with medical home

and quality improvement initiatives, which include

coordinating parent partner activities, family centered

care and parent professional partnerships. She shares

that she has been fortunate to benefit from the ongoing

mentorship, collaboration and technical assistance of

Family Voices and Title V.

We thank and honor these two professionals for giving

their time and expertise to AMCHP. Please take a

moment to visit the AMCHP board page at for more

details and to see how you can reach Shirley Payne and

Gina Pola-Money.

House Energy and Commerce Committee

Holds Hearing on Revised Draft of ACE Kids

Bill

On July 7 the Subcommittee on Health within the U.S.

House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing

on the revised draft of the Advancing Care for

Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act. The revised bill maintains its

focus on increasing quality of care for children with

medically complex conditions (such as by improving data

collection to determine best practices) while attempting

to streamline processes to reduce the burden on

families. During the hearing, a representative from

Family Voices advocated for pediatrics-focused federal

standards for health home providers, engagement of

families in the construction of policy and practices, and

the adoption of best practices regarding out-of-state

care. The National Association of Medicaid Directors

representative emphasized the need to move toward a

less-fragmented system based on financial incentives

that reward value. Other stakeholders, including Gillette

Children’s Specialty Healthcare and Cook Children’s

Health System, emphasized the importance of national

data collection so that improvements can be measured

and national quality standards can be established. The

House and Senate are seeking additional feedback on

drafts of the legislation from stakeholders before

proceeding further.

Bill Addressing Opioid Epidemic Signed

into Law On July 23 the president signed the Comprehensive

Addiction and Recovery Act into law. The law addresses

maternal and child health advocates’ concerns with the

opioid epidemic by providing states with grants for

substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and

postpartum women while extending eligibility for these

programs to women in prison. It also addresses

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, by requiring a report on

its prevalence and the treatment options available under

state Medicaid coverage. The law protects children by

encouraging states to develop safe-care plans for infants

who are affected by opioid usage.

LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY

CORNER

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2017 Assister Certification Training Now

Available As of July 11 the 2017 Assister Certification Training is

available for use on the CMS Enterprise Portal. The

training will be hosted by the Marketplace Learning

Management System (MLMS); the web-based training

platform for assisters providing application and

enrollment assistance to consumers in Federally-

Facilitated Marketplaces (FFMs), including State

Partnership Marketplaces (SPMs) and certain State-

based Marketplaces using the Federal Platform (SBM-

FPs). For additional assistance with questions on the

MLMS assister training, submit inquiries to

MLMSHelpDesk@cms.hhs.gov. For assistance with CAC

program questions, submit inquiries to

CACQuestions@cms.hhs.govai. For assistance with

Navigator program questions, submit inquiries to your

CMS project officer.

AMCHP Releases Medicaid Parity Fact Sheet AMCHP’s Health Reform Implementation team recently

released a fact sheet, Mental Health Parity for Medicaid

& CHIP Populations. This resource is designed to help

MCH professionals understand the final rules released by

the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

regarding parity requirements for Medicaid and CHIP

plans. Keep an eye out over the next few weeks for new

resources on pregnancy coverage and the ACA, 1332

waivers and how to lower non-medically indicated

deliveries before 39 weeks gestation.

Urban Institute: Changing ‘Family Glitch’

Reduces Family Health Costs

More than six million people live in a family that is

affected by the “family glitch” – meaning that one family

member has an employer offer of single coverage

deemed to be affordable and therefore all family

members are ineligible for tax credits for marketplace

coverage. These families are paying premiums that can

amount to 15.8 percent of their household incomes. In a

new report from the Urban Institute, a simulation study

demonstrated that changing the affordability test to take

into account the cost of family coverage would reduce

spending on premiums to 6.3 percent, significantly

alleviating financial burdens for such families.

National Governors Association Responds

to Opioid Epidemic The National Governors Association recently released a

report, Finding Solutions to the Prescription Opioid and

Heroin Crisis: A Road Map for States. The brief lays out

a step-by-step process for states to follow in assessing

prescription and other drug use in their states,

developing policies to address the problem and

implementing and evaluating state

progress.

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FOLLOW

@dc_amchp NETWORK linkedin.com/groups/AMCHP-4145590

WATCH YouTube.com/AMCHPDC

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Call for Volunteers Now Open for AMCHP

Committees

Volunteers are needed across

all of our association committees

including Governance, Annual

Conference Planning, Best

Practices, Emerging Issues,

Family and Youth Leadership,

Legislative and Healthcare

Financing, and Workforce and Leadership

Development.

Please think about contributing your time and

expertise to your professional organization. This is a

terrific way to enhance the benefits of your

membership in AMCHP, grow your career and

contribute in a real way to the success of the

organization.

Please visit this brief survey to let us know of your

interest.

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Request for Applications: AMCHP

Workplace Breast-feeding Support Project

With support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, AMCHP

has committed to partnering with state Title V programs

(or organizations working in partnership with their state

Title V programs to promote breast-feeding initiation and

duration) to provide technical assistance in completing

one of the following projects around breast-feeding

accommodation and support:

Develop a model policy within an organization or for

employees on workplace breast-feeding

accommodation that can be adapted and replicated.

Create a lactation space in an organization or

support employers in creating a lactation space.

Replicate best practices around workplace breast-

feeding accommodation to increase the breast-

feeding rate.

Four state teams will be selected to participate in this

project, which runs from August 2016 to February 2017.

State teams are expected to participate in action

planning, budget development and activity

implementation for a $15,000 mini-grant to develop

model policy, develop a lactation room or replicate best

practices; attend one virtual meeting in October 2016;

participate in cross-state, peer-to-peer sharing via virtual

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PUBLICATIONS & R

SOURCES

Nominations Open for AMCHP Board of

Directors

The AMCHP Board of Directors and Governance

Committee announces that the following vacancies are

open for nominations as of June 15, 2016, for elections

to be held in December 2016. Nominations will remain

open from June 15, 2016, through September 15,

2016, unless further notice is provided. AMCHP

member delegates are encouraged to consider

applying. Your help is needed to fill these important

positions! Thank you in advance for your interest,

ongoing support and representation of your state or

region.

REGION II [N.Y., N.J., P.R., V.I.]

Only current delegates from Region II are eligible for

this position. This is full term regional director position

(March 2017 - the close of the 2020 AMCHP

Conference). Elected candidates will be eligible for up

to one (1) additional full term election if interested.

REGION III [Pa., Md., Del., Va., W.Va.]

Only current delegates from Region III are eligible for

this position. This is full term regional director

position (March 2017 - the close of the 2020 AMCHP

Conference). Elected candidates will be eligible for up

to one (1) additional full term election if interested.

REGION V [Ill., Ind., Mich., Minn., Ohio, Wis.]

Only current delegates from Region V are eligible for

this position. This is full term regional director

position (March 2017 - the close of the 2020 AMCHP

Conference). Elected candidates will be eligible for up

to one (1) additional full term election if interested.

REGION VII [Iowa, Miss., Neb., Kan.]

Only current delegates from Region VII are eligible for

this position. This is full term regional director

position (March 2017 - the close of the 2020 AMCHP

Conference). Elected candidates will be eligible for up

to one (1) additional full term election if interested. A

regional director job description is located here. A

candidate questionnaire must be submitted in order to

be considered for any other Region Director positions.

FAMILY REPRESENTATIVE

We are actively seeking nominations from all regions

to fill this vacancy. Only regular members and current

delegates are eligible for this position. This is a full-

term family representative position (from

March 2017 to the close of the 2020 AMCHP

Conference). Elected candidates will be eligible for up

to one (1) additional full term election if interested.

See the family representative job description.

A candidate questionnaire must be submitted in order

to be considered further for the Family Representative

position.

This process will remain open through Sept. 15. 2016.

Once a candidate(s) is identified, the AMCHP

Governance Committee will

subsequently conduct telephone interviews with

candidate(s) and the AMCHP full voting

membership will vote through a virtual election

process beginning in December 2016.

AMCHP Member Briefs: July 26, 2016 5

meetings, emails and additional conference calls as

needed; and document processes and share best

practices for future replication within other agencies,

organizations and businesses. The request for

applications is due no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on Aug.

1. All applications should be submitted to Michelle

Eglovitch at meglovitch@amchp.org. To access the

request for applications and other materials, click here.

For additional assistance, please contact Megan Phillippi

at mphillippi@amchp.org.

Title V Workforce Assessment: We Want

Your Input AMCHP is conducting an analysis of Title V workforce

needs across state MCH programs. The survey will be

used to identify current and future workforce needs,

along with potential skills gaps and the impact of retiring

workers leaving the Title V workforce. AMCHP’s

Workforce Development Committee would greatly

appreciate you taking the time to fill out this survey so

AMCHP can maximize impact on the health of women,

children and families. We want all Title V staff input!

Please be on the lookout for the survey from your Title V/

MCH/CYSHCN director. We encourage you to share the

survey with any of your colleagues who support the work

of Title V. The survey opens July 21 and closes Aug. 30.

Time to Renew Your AMCHP Membership!

The 2016-17 membership year is approaching! AMCHP

is now mailing membership renewal packets to all state

and territorial agencies, organizational associate

members and individual associate members. The

renewal packets include an invoice and other documents

regarding your membership, including the many benefits

and the names of state delegates. Please submit your

payment by Sept. 30. For questions and additional

assistance, please contact Karissa Charles at

kcharles@amchp.org. For more information on

membership, click here.

Epidemiology Support Services In May 2016 AMCHP created the Epidemiology Support

Services (ESS) with support from the Division of

Reproductive Health within the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention. ESS offers a structured way for

AMCHP to provide epidemiology support and

connections to peer epidemiologists and field experts

who can offer insight on applied MCH epidemiology

issues. To submit a request or learn more, click here.

Join a Community – Strengthen the

Evidence Base in MCH Join AMCHP’s Strengthen the Evidence Base:

Communities of Practice (CoP)! The purpose of the CoPs

is to provide a space for sharing and learning among

peers, which could include topics ranging from

developing evidence-based strategy measures to

implementing a plan. The CoPs are grouped by

population domain, including Child Health, Children and

Youth with Special Health Care Needs, Cross-cutting/Life

Course and Women’s/Maternal Health. The CoP’s

AMCHP moderator will pose questions, assist with

identifying technical assistance and support for topics

that require further assistance, and facilitate discussion

with the experts. However, successful CoPs are largely

participant-driven. You will get the most out of a CoP that

has a group of engaged participants who keep the

conversation and learning going. We encourage

participants to contribute to the CoPs by responding to

discussion questions, posting questions and resources

and engaging with other participants. To sign up, click

here. For questions or additional assistance, please

contact Krista Granger at kgranger@amchp.org or Sarah

Beth McLellan at smclellan@amchp.org.

Connect with Colleagues About

Epidemiology AMCHP is pleased to announce the launch of the MCH

Epi Community of Practice (CoP)! This CoP provides a

space for MCH epidemiologists to collect and share state

MCH epi practices and resources. The goal is for

participants to increase their MCH epi capacity by

helping one another overcome problems, test ideas,

catalog acquired knowledge and enhance professional

networks. Benefits include participation in online

discussion boards, interaction with peers, access to

suggested resources and identification of topics that

require further technical assistance. To sign up, please

visit our registration page. The registration link can also

be found on AMCHP’s new Communities of Practice

page.

Coordinating Care for Children in Families

with Complex Social and Health Needs The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health and

the Catalyst Center will host a webinar on July 27 from

12:30-1:30 p.m. ET. The webinar will cover issues

related to the lives of children and youth with chronic or

complex medical conditions, which often are complicated

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by psychosocial issues and family problems such as

poverty, poor prenatal health, substance abuse, domestic

violence and homelessness. These children with “social

complexities” are among the most frequent and high-cost

users of health care services, and their social

vulnerability presents a challenge to providing high-

quality care. The webinar will discuss how these issues

should be addressed as well as which resources to use

to support them. To register, click here.

DataSpeak: Making the Best Use of the Title

V Information System Data The Health Resources and Services Administration’s

Maternal and Child Health Bureau will host a DataSpeak

program on the Title V Information System (TVIS) on July

27 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will present

an orientation to the new TVIS Web Reports webpage,

which includes prepopulated, downloadable graphs,

financial information and the ability to view multiple years

of data. The data and uses of the Federally Available

Data Resource Document, a one-stop source to access

and learn more about the new Title V performance and

outcome measures, will also be featured. To register,

click here.

Loss, Grief and Adjustment for Parents of

Children with Special Needs Parent to Parent of New York State will host a webinar

on July 27 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET. Powerful and

intense feelings are natural and common responses to

parenting a child with exceptional needs. The webinar

will provide an overview of common emotions

experienced by parents and discuss how, by sharing and

acknowledging these emotions, parents can find the

inner strength needed to face and embrace their role as

a parent of a child with special needs. Please be advised

that only the first 100 participants who log onto the

webinar will be able to attend. To register, click here.

Timeliness in Newborn Screening Webinar

Series The New York-Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Genetic and

Newborn Screening Services will host a webinar series

on Timeliness in Newborn Screening.

The Analytic Timeliness webinar is scheduled for

July 27 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET. The presentation

will focus on the newborn screening laboratory

issues to improving timeliness in newborn screening.

Participants will learn about the time required to

complete testing, implications of second tier assays

and barriers to timeliness.

The Post-Analytic Timeliness webinar is scheduled for Aug. 10 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will focus on the importance of timely diagnosis for newborn screen conditions. The presentation will include a discussion of gaps and barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment.

The Family Focus webinar is scheduled for Aug. 24 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET. Families, advocates, primary care physicians, hospital staff and newborn screening programs are invited to a discussion to hear from families impacted by a condition on the newborn screening panel as they discuss the importance of timeliness.

The National Newborn Screening Recommendations webinar is scheduled for Aug. 31 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will include commentary from national experts on timeliness in newborn screening. The presentation will include a review of current efforts to improve timeliness. This the final webinar in the series.

Consequences of Bullying

The Children’s Safety Network will host a webinar on July

28 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET to discuss a new report,

Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy and

Practice. In this webinar, the first in a three-part series,

findings from the National Academies of Science,

Engineering and Medicine Committee will be discussed.

The presentation will also cover conclusions and

recommendations pertaining to the biological and

psychosocial consequences of bullying for the children

who are perpetrators, targets and bystanders to bullying

behavior. To register, click here.

Call for Submissions to Society for

Adolescent Health and Medicine

Educational Presentation

The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM)

2017 Annual Meeting will take place in March 2017 in

New Orleans. SAHM will accept educational and

scientific research presentations.

Scientific Research Presentations include platform,

poster and poster symposia presentations. The

application period will close on Aug. 22 at 11:59 p.m.

ET. For more information, click here.

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Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program Offers

Awards in Medical Sciences, Public Health

The Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program offers teaching,

research or combination teaching/research awards in

over 125 countries for the 2017-18 academic year.

Opportunities are available for college and university

faculty and administrators as well as professionals,

artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent

scholars and many others. This year, program offers over

60 awards in the field of Medical Sciences and over 80

awards in the field of Public/Global Health. For more

information, visit the Medical Sciences and Public/Global

Health webpage. The Fulbright Scholars Program will

also host webinars in the near future to answer additional

questions. The application deadline is Aug. 1.

Request for Applications: Mental Health

Assessment and Treatment of Infants,

Young Children and Families The Zero to Three Policy Center and partners are

pleased to announce a technical assistance opportunity

for state teams to connect and develop strategies to

advance state policy related to financing infant and early

childhood mental health (IECMH) assessment and

treatment. The request for applications is open to all

states; 10 states will be selected to:

Send a team of five people to join national experts for

a convening Oct. 13-14 focused on financing of

IECMH assessment and treatment.

Participate in a series of virtual learning and sharing

sessions with other convening attendees in the year

following the meeting.

Receive technical assistance from Zero to Three to

create and implement an action plan to advance

IECMH financing policy.

Responses should not exceed five pages and are due no

later than Aug. 1. Click here to access the request for

applications. Please address questions to Lindsay Usry

at lusry@zerotothree.org.

Overview of Perinatal Mood Disorder

Treatment: Guidelines and Clinical Pearls The Centers of Disease Control, MCH Epidemiology

Grant Rounds will host a webinar on Aug. 3 from 2:00-

3:00 p.m. ET. The presentation will overview, of the

different types of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders,

recommendations for and implementation of screening

and implementation of screening in clinical settings and

latest research on prescribing psychotropic

medications for pregnant and lactating women. To join

the meeting, click here. Please use the conference

number 1-866-692-3582 and access

code 10502630#. Presentation slides and short

biographies of the presenters are also available.

Zika Virus and Implications for Tribal

Partners The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

and the Indian Health Service (IHS) will co-host a

webinar for tribal partners during the IHS Clinical Rounds

on Aug. 4 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET. The webinar is

designed to provide health care providers with clear

information to effectively counsel and manage patients,

including pregnant women. The webinar will also include

a review of CDC’s Interim Guidelines for Health Care

Providers Caring for Pregnant Women and Women of

Reproductive Age with Possible Zika Virus Exposure and

the overview of the United States’ Zika Pregnancy

Registry. Registration is not required to participate in this

webinar. To access the webinar, click here. Please

select the “Enter as Guest” option and input your first

and last name into the “Name” box. Use “Rounds” as the

passcode and press the “Enter Room” button.

Information on how to access the audio portion of the

webinar will be provided at a later date.

Preventing Adolescent Dating Abuse:

Research and Practice The Children’s Safety Network will host a webinar on

Aug. 10 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET. The presentation will

provide an overview of the issue of adolescent dating

abuse, describing how the field has grown and changed

in the past 20 years, including how dating itself has

changed. Presenters will provide results of research

conducted with perpetrators of adolescent dating abuse,

as well as information on community-based efforts to

prevent adolescent dating abuse. To register, click here.

Infant Mortality CoIIN Thematic Webinar On Aug. 16 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET, National Institute for Children’s Health Quality, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Kansas will host a webinar on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). The webinar will discuss how health professionals working on NAS can work to reduce infant mortality. To register, click here.

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Abstract Submissions for GHIC 2017 Unite for Sight is accepting abstract submissions for the

2017 Global Health and Innovation Conference. Only

three types of abstracts will be accepted. Professionals

and students may submit the following abstracts:

Oral and poster abstracts may be research, clinical

or program-focused. The abstract must include

results (data and outcomes), and accepted abstracts

will be invited for oral or poster presentation. The

priority deadline is Aug. 31. For complete instructions

and submission details, click here.

Giving an oral presentation on Social Impact Pitch

abstracts is an opportunity to present an idea,

program or organization to the audience and to an

expert panel for mentoring, guidance and advice.

The two categories for Social Impact Labs are Early

Stage (idea, program or organization is less than 3

years old, and ideas in the brainstorming stage are

also eligible); and Established Stage (program or

organization is at least 3-6 years old). A newer

program (0-6 years old) that is within an established

organization qualifies for the Social Impact Lab

category as well. The priority deadline is Aug. 31. For

more information, click here.

Innovative Initiatives Information Sessions for Oral

Presentations are opportunities for organizations to

discuss their products or services. The for-profit or

nonprofit organization application will be reviewed to

determine if the organization provides products or

services that may be of great interest to conference

participants. The submission deadline is Aug. 30. For

more information, click here.

Call for Nominations: 2016 Henry Viscardi

Achievement Awards

The Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards honor

individuals making significant contributions to improving

the lives of people with disabilities. Previous awardees

represent all sectors, including both domestic and

international leaders continuously striving for the

advancement of the disability community. Health

departments and other community partners are

encouraged to submit nominations. The deadline is Sept.

30. For more information, click here.

Scientific Writing for Peer Reviewed

Publications for Public Health Professionals

The Learning Institute of the American Public Health

Association 2016 Annual Meeting will offer a short course

to help public health practitioners turn their work into

manuscripts for publication. The course will be a mixture

of presentations and hands-on work. Participants are

strongly encouraged to attend the training with an

abstract, manuscript online, data analysis results or a

draft of an article. The course will go over each section of

a scientific paper in detail and participants will receive

guidance from trainers as well as prominent authors or

editors. The course will take place on Oct. 29 from 9:00

am-5:00 p.m. ET in Denver. For more information and

to register, click here.

Best Practices/Innovation Station

AMCHP Releases New Video on Capturing

Best Practices in Maternal and Child Health During the 2016 AMCHP annual conference, AMCHP

staff conducted video interviews with three members on

the importance of capturing best practices in maternal

and child health. Interviewees were Maria Nardella, Karin

Downs and Katy Schalla-Lesiak. Check out the video

here and be sure to share on social media! For more

information on best practices, visit AMCHP’s Innovation

Station.

Zika Corner

Interim Guidance for District and School

Administrators in the Continental United

States and Hawaii The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

released a new resource that serves as a guide for

kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) district and school

administrators for public health actions pertaining to Zika

virus infection. It is intended to address concerns about

the risk for Zika infection in K-12 schools across the

continental United States and Hawaii, provide school

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AND RESOURCES

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RESOURCES cont.

districts with information for planning school-related ac-

tivities and recommend actions that can be taken in

consultation with local public health authorities and gov-

ernment officials to reduce the potential risk for Zika

virus transmission on school premises and among stu-

dents. To access the resource, click here.

Providing Family Planning Care for Non-

Pregnant Women and Men in the Context of

Zika

The Department of Health and Human Services and the

Office of Population Affairs designed a toolkit to help

providers of family planning services in a variety of edu-

cate their non-pregnant clients about the risk of Zika

infection. The toolkit is based on current Centers of Dis-

ease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance and is

composed of core information about Zika virus and its

implications for women and men’s family planning

needs; guidance for health care providers on counseling

non-pregnant women and men about family planning in

the context of Zika; links to CDC’s clinical recommenda-

tions about Zika and other relevant resources; job aids

and client handouts; and outreach materials. To access

the resource, click here.

Workforce Development

New MCH Publication from the University

of Minnesota The University of Minnesota’s Center for Leadership in

Maternal and Child Public Health recently published

MCH Professionals Making a Difference in Government,

Health Care Services, Research, Policy and Academia,

the second of a two-part series that commemorates the

Center’s 60th anniversary and celebrates 15 years of its

publication, Healthy Generations. This volume features

over 600 University of Minnesota MPH alumni in MCH

who are local, state and national public health leaders.

Topics covered in this volume include addressing the

needs of children and youth with special health care

needs, combating food insecurity through policy, and

transforming the quality and use of data through re-

search management and information visualization. To

read first issue in the series, click here.

General & Maternal Child Health

Language Access in Primary Care

The National Center for Medical Home Implementation

and the National Center for Cultural Competence pub-

lished a resource that emphasizes the importance of a

language access programs, especially in pediatrics. A

language-access program delineates how a medical

practice or organization provides services to individuals

who speak languages other than English. To access the

resource, click here.

Tennessee: Advancing the Medical Home

Model in Pediatrics In December 2014, Tennessee was awarded a two-year,

$75 million State Innovation Model (SIM) testing grant to

transform the state’s health care system. The SIM grant

supports a patient-centered medical home program built

off a quality improvement initiative facilitated in partner-

ship the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy

of Pediatrics. For more information, click here.

Health Reform Implementation in

Maternal and Child Health

Children’s Health Coverage: The Role of

Medicaid and CHIP and Issues for the Fu-

ture

This issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation ex-

amines the importance of Medicaid and the Children’s

Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits for kids and

what it means for children with special health care needs

if the funding for CHIP does not continue past Septem-

ber 2017.

State Pediatric Medicaid and CHIP Medical

Homes Initiative: At-a-Glance Table The National Center for Medical Home Implementation,

in partnership with the National Academy for State

Health Policy, recently updated its State At-a-Glance

table. The table provides an overview of publicly funded

state programs that support the implementation and

spread of the pediatric medical home model of care, in-

cluding information on Health Home State Plan Amend-

ments and on states that have Medicaid payment for

pediatric medical home programs.

AMCHP Member Briefs: July 26, 2016 10

RESOURCES cont.

Strategies to Increase Access to LARC in

Medicaid

The National Academy for State Health Policy and Na-

tional Institute for Children’s Health Quality published a

new issue brief that details the use of Long-Acting Re-

versible Contraception (LARC) in preventing un-

planned pregnancies, the current availability and edu-

cation of women, barriers to prescribing LARC and

potential Medicaid reimbursement models to improve

LARC access. The issue brief was developed as part

of the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Net-

work to Reduce Infant Mortality. To access this re-

source, click here.

Child and Adolescent Health

School-Based Health Centers to Promote

Healthy Equity

The Community Preventative Services Task Force cre-

ated a resource that recommends the implementation

and maintenance of school-based health centers in low

-income communities, based on sufficient evidence of

effectiveness in improving educational and health out-

comes. Improved health outcomes include the delivery

of vaccinations and other recommended preventative

services, asthma morbidity, emergency department

and hospital admission, contraceptive use among fe-

males, prenatal care and birth weight and other health

risk behaviors.

New Resources on Drowning Prevention SafeKids Worldwide released two new reports. Keep-

ing Kids Safe in and Around Water: Exploring Miscon-

ceptions that Lead to Drowning uncovers misconcep-

tions families have that can lead to drowning and ex-

plains how to keep kids safe in and around water. Dan-

gerous Waters: Profiles of Fatal Childhood Drownings

in the U.S. 2005-2014 explores the three places chil-

dren are more likely to drown: at home in bathtubs, at

the pool and in natural water. The report compares

risks across ages, genders and races to see how they

differ.

Evaluation Findings from the Office of Ad-

olescent Health

The results of the first set of evaluation findings from

the Office of Adolescent Health’s Teen Pregnancy Pre-

vention (TPP) Program grantees are now available.

TPP program funded two types of grants that were rig-

orously evaluated: replications of evidence-based pro-

grams and/or new settings, as well as research and

demonstrations of new and innovative programs. For

more information on the findings, click here.

Teen Nutrition: Making Healthy Food

Choices Easy

The American Public Health Association published

Healthy You: a set of free and easy-to-understand tip

sheets that provide information on a wide variety of

health topics. The issue of Healthy You covers the nu-

trition needs of adolescents and ways to ensure that

their eating habits set the foundation for the rest of their

lives. Click here to read in English. The issue is availa-

ble in Spanish as well as audio format.

Safe Routes to School—By the Numbers The Safe Routes to School National Partnership, with

support from the American Public Health Association,

has released a new report, Safe Routes to School —

By the Numbers. This report offers insights into how

newly expanding access to data can assist in improving

walking and biking programs, provides an overview of

the current state of data access and its limitations and

highlights case studies of communities and organiza-

tions using data to make walking and bicycling pro-

grams and policies function more effectively.

Addressing Health Coverage Inequities

Among CSHCN in Your State The Catalyst Center recently hosted a webinar for MCH

leaders and other stakeholders to become acquainted

with their Inequities Tutorial. MCH staff from Alaska and

Michigan described the strategies they are using to pro-

mote health equity for children with special health care

needs in their state. To access the archived webinar,

click here.

ON YOUR BEHALF In late June, AMCHP staff members Caroline

Stampfel, Jennifer Farfalla, Krista Granger and An-

dria Cornell traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, for the

2016 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiolo-

gists (CSTE) Annual Conference. Jennifer Farfalla

served on the planning committee for the pre-

conference MCH Symposium “Expanding Our Fo-

cus: Emerging Methods to Incorporate Populations

Underrepresented in MCH Analysis and Reporting”

and moderated a session at the symposium. Caro-

line Stampfel led a roundtable discussion titled

“Maximizing the Impact of Your Data: Making Better

AMCHP Member Briefs: July 26, 2016 11

ON YOUR BEHALF cont.

Infographics.” Andria Cornell led a roundtable discus-

sion titled “Honoring Mothers' Lives: Strengthening Ma-

ternal Mortality Reviews and Translating Findings into

Action.”

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

AMCHP Seeking Health Reform Implemen-

tation Senior Program Manager

The Senior Program Manager, Health Reform Imple-

mentation (HRI) is a member of the Program Team and

contributes to the advancement of MCH programs by

performing a variety of planning and program imple-

mentation, research and evaluation projects. This posi-

tion supports and assists the HRI team in the develop-

ment, implementation and evaluation of program activi-

ties related to MCH and health reform. This position

also contributes to the collection of state best practices

for AMCHP’s database of best practices (Innovation

Station), newsletter development and implementation of

communication strategies. Job specification requires

knowledge of the U.S. health care system, with particu-

lar emphasis on the Affordable Care Act and other na-

tional and state health reform policy initiatives and

trends, as well as knowledge of federal health financing

and service delivery programs (Medicaid/CHIP, the

Health Insurance Marketplace) and understanding of

public health infrastructure at the state/federal /local

levels as it relates to issues affecting MCH populations.

Qualified candidates should have a master’s degree in

public health, health policy or other related health or

human services field with four to eight years of direct

professional experience. Ten years of directly related

experience can substitute a master’s degree. Direct

work in an MCH state/local/federal public health agency

or nonprofit organization preferred. For more infor-

mation and to apply, click here.

FUNDING Pediatric Audiology Competitive Supple-

ment to Leadership Education in Neurode-

velopmental and Related Disabilities Deadline: July 28, 2016 The announcement solicits applications for the Pediatric

Audiology Competitive Supplement to Leadership Edu-

cation in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities

(LEND) program. This supplement will support the clini-

cal and leadership training of pediatric audiology train-

ees within LEND programs

with the specific goals of: strengthening the focus on

screening, treatment and follow up in infants and young

children confirmed to be deaf or hard-of-hearing with

autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or related neuro-

developmental disabilities (DD); increasing the number

of pediatric audiologists with clinical and leadership

skills, utilizing these unique skills in delivering care to

infants and young children with ASD and/or other DD to

work across disciplines to better serve children and

families; and enhancing the systems’ capacity to in-

crease enrollment of infants/children with ASD and/or

other DD confirmed to be hard of hearing into early in-

tervention programs. For more information, click here.

Community Access to Child Health Plan-

ning, Implementation and Resident Grants

Deadline: July 29, 2016

The American Academy of Pediatrics has created a

funding opportunity to award up to $10,000 to individual

pediatricians and fellowship trainees to plan innovative,

community-based child health initiatives that will ensure

children have medical homes, are immunized and have

access to health care services not otherwise available

in their communities. Resident grants will also be

awarded up to $2,000 on a competitive basis for pediat-

ric residents to plan and/or implement community-based

child health initiatives. Projects must also include plan-

ning activities or demonstrate completed planning activi-

ties and might include implementation activities. For

more information, click here.

Global Network for Women’s and Chil-

dren’s Health Research Data Coordinating

Center

Letter of Intent Deadline: July 30, 2016

Application Deadline: Aug. 30, 2016

The National Institutes of Health is accepting applica-

tions from institutions and organizations willing to partic-

ipate with the Eunice Kennedy Schriver National Insti-

tute of Child Health and Human Development. The se-

lected institution or organization will function as the Da-

ta Coordinating Center under a cooperative agreement

in an ongoing multicenter, international research net-

work designed to perform randomized clinical trials us-

ing common protocols to reduce the major risk of mater-

nal, neonatal, infant and early childhood mortality. For

more information, click here.

AMCHP Member Briefs: July 26, 2016 12

FUNDING cont.

Improving Timeliness in Newborn Screen-

ing

Deadline: Aug. 1, 2016

State/territorial newborn screening programs (NBS) can

apply to NewSTEPs 360 to participate in continuous

quality-improvement activities and may choose to apply

for funding to support NBS timeliness activities. Two

funding mechanisms are available: state applications,

which allow individual NBS programs to apply up to a

total of $80,000 over two years, and group applications,

which call for collaborations between states/territories

to apply for up to $100,000 over two years, to address a

shared timeliness concern. For more information, click

here.

Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Chil-

dren Deadline: Aug. 2, 2016

The Health Resources Administration (HRSA) is solicit-

ing applications for Healthy Tomorrows Partnership with

Children Program (HTPCP). The purpose of this grant

program is to increase the number of innovative, com-

munity-initiated programs that employ preventive health

strategies and promote access to health care for chil-

dren, youth and their families nationwide. This program

most closely supports the HRSA’s goals to improve ac-

cess to quality health care and services, to build healthy

communities and to improve health equity. HTPCP

funding supports projects that provide clinical or public

health services — not research projects. Applications

must represent either a new initiative within the commu-

nity or an innovative, new component that builds upon

an existing community-based program or initiative. For

more information, click here.

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Ser-

vice Award Individual Predoctoral Fellow-

ship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related

Research

Deadline: Aug. 8, 2016

The National Institutes of Health is now accepting appli-

cations for awards that will enhance the diversity of the

health-related research workforce by supporting the

research training of predoctoral students from un-

derrepresented population groups in the biomedical,

behavioral and clinical research workforces. Predoctor-

al students will have mentored research training from

faculty while conducting research projects in scientific

health-related fields. The training will enhance their po-

tential to develop into independent research scientists.

For more information, click here.

MCH Field-Initiated Innovative Research

Studies Deadline: Aug 19, 2016

The Health Resources and Services Administration is

now accepting applications for MCH Field-Initiated Inno-

vative Research Studies (FIRST). The program supports

innovative translational and applied research on critical

issues affecting maternal and child health, including ser-

vices for children with special health care needs. The

program is designed to promote innovation in the field by

supporting the exploration of new ideas and interven-

tions. Research should advance the current knowledge

pool and, when implemented in states and communities,

should result in health services improvement. Findings

from the research supported by the MCH FIRST pro-

gram are expected to explore and develop new ideas

and interventions that strengthen and expand topics ad-

dressed by the MCH Block Grant National Performance

Domains and the populations they serve. For more infor-

mation, click here.

MCH Secondary Data Analysis Research

Deadline: Aug 19, 2016

The Health Resources and Services Administration is

accepting applications for MCH Secondary Data Analy-

sis Research (SDAR) Program. The MCH SDAR Pro-

gram supports applied maternal and child health re-

search that exclusively conducts secondary analysis of

existing national databases and/or administrative rec-

ords. These projects should have potential to improve

health services and delivery of care for maternal and

child health populations. Findings from the research sup-

ported by SDAR are expected to strengthen and expand

topics addressed by the new MCH Block Grant National

Performance Domains and the populations they serve.

For more information, click here.

NIH Initiative to Maximize Research Educa-

tion in Genomics Diversity Action Plan Deadline: Sept. 6, 2016

The National Institutes of Health presents this funding

opportunity to facilitate the training of individuals at all

career levels (undergraduate, graduate, post baccalau-

reate, postdoctoral and faculty) from diverse back-

grounds underrepresented in scientific disciplines rele-

vant to genomics, to enable them to pursue genomics

research that spans all areas of interest to National Hu-

man Genome Research Institute later in their careers.

To learn more, click here.

AMCHP Member Briefs: July 26, 2016 13

FUNDING cont.

Developing Goals and Strategies to Improve

the Care of Children with Chronic and Com-

plex Health Conditions

Deadline: Sept. 15, 2016

The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

seeks applications for grants to develop single-topic is-

sue briefs that describe goals and processes to improve

aspects of the systems of care for children with chronic

and complex health conditions in the United States. The

briefs will provide specific, scalable recommendations for

action related to practice, research, programs and policy.

For more information click here.

Improving the Coordination and Documen-

tation of Enrollment into Early Intervention

for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

through Parent Engagement

Deadline: Sept. 30, 2016

The Disability Research and Dissemination Center pre-

sents a funding opportunity to help increase parental and

public awareness about the importance and benefits of

signing a release to share early intervention information

(information release) with the state Early Hearing Detec-

tion and Intervention programs, as well as engaging and

supporting families in the intervention process. For more

information, click here.

Using Existing Early Intervention Data to

Assess Outcomes among Deaf and Hard of

Hearing Children

Deadline: Sept. 30, 2016

The Disability Research and Dissemination Center pre-

sents a funding opportunity to assess the outcomes of

deaf or hard of hearing children identified through state

early intervention programs by using existing interven-

tion and educational data sets. For more information,

click here.

Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Im-

prove Health Care Quality through HIT Deadline: Nov. 16, 2016

The purpose of this grant is to fund exploratory and de-

velopmental research grants that will contribute to the

evidence base of how health information technology im-

proves health care quality. This funding opportunity sup-

ports the use of a wide variety of research designs in

order to generate information regarding the design and

development, implementation, use or impact of health IT

on quality. For more information, click here.

Reducing Health Disparities Among Minori-

ty and Underserved Children

Deadline: Jan. 7, 2017

This initiative encourages research that targets the re-

duction of health disparities among children. Specific

targeted areas of research include biobehavioral stud-

ies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child

health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cel-

lular, organ systems), lifestyle, environmental (e.g.,

physical and family environments), social (e.g., peers),

economic, institutional, cultural and family influences;

studies that target the specific health promotion needs

of children with a known health condition and/or disabil-

ity; and studies that test and evaluate the comparative

effectiveness of health promotion interventions conduct-

ed in traditional and nontraditional settings. For more

information, click here (R01) or here (R21).

Chronic Illness Self-Management in Chil-

dren and Adolescents Deadline: Jan. 7, 2017

The purpose of this announcement is to encourage re-

search to improve self-management and quality of life

in children and adolescents with chronic conditions. For

more information, click here (R01) or here (R21).

Understanding Factors in Infancy and Early

Childhood That Influence Obesity Develop-

ment

Deadline: Feb. 5, 2017

This funding announcement invites Research Project

Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations

which propose to characterize or identify factors in early

childhood (birth to 24 months) that might increase or

mitigate risk for obesity and/or excessive weight gain

and/or to fill methodological research gaps relevant to

the understanding of risk for development of obesity in

children. For more information, click here.

Maternal Nutrition and Pre-pregnancy Obe-

sity: Effects on Mothers, Infants and Chil-

dren Deadline: Varies

This announcement encourages applications to improve

health outcomes for women, infants and children by

stimulating interdisciplinary research focused on mater-

nal nutrition and pre-pregnancy obesity. The announce-

ment expires May 7, 2018. For more information, click

here.

AMCHP Member Briefs: July 26, 2016 14

CALENDAR

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Calendar? It’s easy! Just complete

our easy online submission form. You are

welcome to submit MCH conferences, webinars,

trainings, webcasts and meetings. Thanks for

helping us to build our MCH Events Calendar! If

you have any questions, please contact Karissa

Charles, Meetings and Membership Associate.

Please note: All event listings are subject to

AMCHP approval.

AMCHP EVENTS

AMCHP 2017 Annual Conference

Mar. 4-7, 2017

Kansas City, MO

MCH EVENTS

ROSE 5th Annual Breastfeeding Summit

Jul. 28-29, 2016

New Orleans, LA

2016 Coalition for Juvenile Justice Youth Summit

Aug. 2-3, 2016

Washington, DC

Public Health Informatics Conference

Aug. 21-24, 2016

Atlanta, GA

20th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect

Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2016

Washington, DC

CityMatCH Leadership and MCH Epidemiology Confer-

ence

Sept. 14-16, 2016

Philadelphia, PA

2016 Infant Health Policy Summit

Sept. 15, 2016

Washington, D.C.

Congenital Cytomegalovirus Public Health and Policy

Conference

Sept. 25-27, 2016

Austin, TX

Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 2016

Conference

Oct. 5-8, 2016

Bamberg, Germany

Adverse Childhood Experiences Awareness to Action

2016 Conference

Oct. 19-21, 2016

San Francisco, Calif.

APHA 2016 Annual Meeting and Expo

Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2016

Denver, Colo.

Healthy Teen Network 2016 Conference

Nov. 16-18, 2016

Las Vegas, Nev.

AUCD Conference

Dec. 4-7, 2016

Washington, D.C.

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