2002 Healthy Carolinians e-News

 

HC Website Update- What's New?

Upcoming Events:
ANNOUNCEMENT:  The Office of Healthy Carolinians/Health Education has been designated by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing as a provider of category I CHES credits.

North Carolina Community Assessment Overview
March 28, 2002 via the PHTIN System
Registration 8:30 am, Transmission 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Sites:  Elizabeth City, New Hanover, Fayetteville, Wilson, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem, Hickory, and Sylva.
An introduction to the new Community Assessment Cycle and Guidebook
CHES CREDITS OFFERED!!
Contact:  Margie Britnell, Community Assessment Educator, at (919) 733-4983 or register via email at
ohctraining@netscape.net

RISK WATCH Leader Training Workshop
(Note:  The workshop is offered in three locations on three dates so that you can pick the one that is convenient for you!)
When/Where: Choice of April 10th-Catawba County Firefighter's Museum, Hickory; May 1st-Allied Health Education Building, Greenville; or May 30th- Fayetteville Airport Training Facility, Fayetteville-- from 10am until 3pm
Cost:  Free for participants (with lunch included!)
The workshops will provide participants with skills necessary to start and maintain a Risk Watch program.
Register by March 30!
Contact:  Ruth Petrea (919) 416-8205, Fax: (919) 286-8334,or Email:  petre004@mc.duke.edu

7th Annual Latino Issues Forum
"El Foro Latino"
Saturday, April 6 & Sunday, April 7
NC School of Science & Math, Durham
North Carolina's Largest Annual issue-focused gathering for Latino advocates, policy makers, business leaders, and all those
interested in Latino affairs. Local and national speakers, Round Table discussions, Workshops, Exhibit Hall, Site Visits to local
community organizations,concurrent youth forum for emerging leaders (ages 14- 21), Cultural entertainment, and more.
Contact: El Pueblo, Inc. at (919) 835-1525 or visit website at www.elpueblo.org

2002 Annual Conference Symposium
Growing Pains:  Navigating Adolescence
May 9, 2002 in Winston-Salem
Click here to see pdf version of brochure.  (You will need Acrobat Reader to view brochure)
Contact: Mia Day Burroughs, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina, (919) 932-9885

4th Annual Men Are Nurturer Too Conference
Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize
June 13-14, 2002
The Millennium Hotel, Durham, NC
Contact:  UNC School of Public Health Office of Continuing Education at 919-966-4032 or logon to www.sph.unc.edu/oce.

American Indian Health Summit 2002
June 5-6, 2002
Holiday Inn, I-95 in Fayetteville, NC
Click here to see pdf version of brochure.  (You will need Acrobat Reader to view brochure)
Contact: NC Commission of Indian Affairs at (919) 733-5998  or visit their website at: www.doa.state.nc.us/doa/cia/Ind.htm

11th Annual Healthy Carolinians Conference
Mining Our Communities for Resources: Making the Most of What We’ve Got
Friday, October 11, 2002, Crabtree Marriott, Raleigh NC
Cost: $50 Conference Fee, $79 Guestroom Fee (Single, Double, or Quad)
CHES CREDITS OFFERED!

Freebies!
Immunization Video in Spanish-"Vaccinations for Everyone" produced as part of First Lady Mary Easley's Immunization Initiative "Healthy Children-Healthy Youth" in partnership with the General Federation of Women's Clubs and the Immunization Branch.  For your free copy, contact Andrea Held at (919) 715-6763 or andrea.held@ncmail.net

Interesting Websites:
http://161.58.87.30/kidwebnc/kidwebhome.asp
The NC Child Advocacy Institute has recently updated its database of child well-being indicators on the web.  We encourage you to visit the web site for the latest information about children and youth in North Carolina.

http://www.ncruralcenter.org/databank/index.html
The Rural Center maintains a database of major economic and social indicators for each of North Carolina's 100 counties.

http://www.dca.commerce.state.nc.us/
The website for the Division of Community Assistance (DCA) in the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The division provides assistance through the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant program, the NC Main Street program and the Community Planning Program.

http://www.depts.washington.edu/pfes/cultureclues.html
The University of Washington Medical Center has developed Culture Cluesİ  -- tip sheets for clinicians designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from the diverse cultures. Currently there are five cultures represented, Albanian, Korean, Latino, Russian, and Vietnamese.

http://www.radiodiaries.org/
Website that encourages people to keep audio diaries. Great assessment tool for documenting community work and attitudes.

http://www.workingfilms.org/index.html
Working Films is an organization in Wilmington that links independent documentary filmmaking with community organizing and education in support of social, economic, and environmental justice. Free films provided to interest parties.

Funding Opportunities:
Substance Abuse Prevention
Deadline: April 24, 2002
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention(OJJDP) has issued a program announcement for the fiscal  year 2002 Drug-Free Communities Support Program, which it administers for the Office of National Drug Control  Policy.  The two major goals of the program are to: Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults  by addressing the factors in the community that serve to increase the risk of substance abuse and the factors that serve to minimize that risk; and Establish and strengthen collaboration among communities; Federal, State, and tribal governments; and private nonprofit agencies to support the efforts of community coalitions to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth.

To be eligible, a community coalition must meet the following criteria: the coalition must have the reduction of substance abuse among youth as a principal mission; the coalition must demonstrate that it has been established, and that its members have worked together, for a period of not less than 6 months prior to application submission; and the coalition must represent the targeted community and include at least one representative of each of the following groups: youth; parents; business community;
 media; schools; youth-serving organizations; law enforcement agencies; religious or fraternal organizations; civic and volunteer groups; health-care professionals; state, local, or tribal governmental agencies with an expertise in the field of substance abuse; and other organizations involved in reducing substance abuse.  Selected projects will be funded for a twelve-month project  period. Funding after the initial period depends on grantee performance, availability of funds, and other criteria. Approximately seventy grants of up to $100,000 for the initial 12-month budget period will be made in FY 2002.

Contact:
Lauren Ziegler,  Program Coordinator
Drug-Free Communities Support Program
Tel: (202) 616-8988
E-mail: zieglerl@ojp.usdoj.gov

Respectfully,
Fiorella Horna-Guerra
Coordinator for Training and Resource Development
Office of Healthy Carolinians