U.S. DHHS. Office of Minority Health. Grants, and other info

FYI: Minority Resources...Money & More Provided by the Office of Minority Health Resource Center's Information Services Team December 19, 2012     In This Issue ... Funding   Federal Grants   Non Federal Grants   Scholarships/Fellowships Resources American Indians/Alaska Native Health Asian/Pacific Islander Health Cancer Diabetes Health Equity HIV/AIDS-STDs Mental Health Pulmonary Health Substance Abuse Opportunities for Public Comment Funding Federal Grants Minority Population Specific: $500k or more . . .   USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture: Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Competitive Grants Program (ANNH) Grant. View Full Announcement $500k or more . . .   HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Cost-Benefit of Incentive-based Smoking Cessation for Pregnant Women. View Full Announcement HHS/National Institutes of Health: Integrated Preclinical/Clinical AIDS Vaccine Development Program (IPCAVD) (U19) Grant. View Full Announcement HHS/National Institutes of Health: Mechanisms of HIV-Related Lung Disease Data Coordinating Center (DCC) (U01). Grant View Full Announcement HHS/National Institutes of Health: AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) (UM1) Grant. View Full Announcement HHS/National Institutes of Health: Diabetes Impact Award-Closed Loop Technologies: Clinical, Physiological and Behavioral Approaches to Improve Type 1 Diabetes Outcomes (DP3) Grant. Grant View Full Announcement $500k or less . . .   HHS/National Institutes of Health: Mechanisms of HIV-Related Lung Disease (U01) Grant. View Full Announcement HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Telehealth Network Grant Program Grant. View Full Announcement HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Program- Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. View Full Announcement HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Grant Program Grant View Full Announcement Non Federal Grants $500k or less . . .  Paralyzed Veterans of America Education Foundation: Innovative Educational Projects Grant. View Full Announcement The Sunflower Foundation: Integrated Care Initiative grant View Full Announcement Foundation for the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): The Heart Truth® Community Action Program Grant. View Full Announcement JBS International: Adult Immunization and HPV Health Projects grant. View Full Announcement Scholarships/Fellowships Morehouse School of Medicine/Satcher Health Leadership Institute: Health Policy Leadership Fellowship Program. View Full Announcement University of California, Berkeley: The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, providing holistic support, financial, academic, social, and career counseling to 113 students from Sub-Saharan Africa from 2012 - 2020. View Full Announcement go to top Resources CDC: New digital press kit released. Give the Gift of Health and Safety: Healthy Living Holiday Tips. Learn More HHS/Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: New mobile app challenge. healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge, challenges teams of developers and health professionals/ health consumers to co-design a mobile app that can be used to access customized decision support for preventive services and wellness information from healthfinder.gov. Submission deadline is Feb 01, 2013 5:00 pm EST. Learn More go to top American Indians/Alaska Native Health Events The American Indian Institute at the University of Oklahoma: Conference. 15th Native Diabetes Prevention Conference. January 27-30, 2013 in Phoenix, AZ. Learn More go to top Asian/Pacific Islander Health HHS/National Diabetes Education Program: New online resource catalog available. Diabetes Resources Catalog With Special Resources for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Learn More go to top Cancer AHRQ: Effective Health Care Program releases a new report. Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage II Colon Cancer. Read Full Report go to top Diabetes Events The Endocrine Society: Summit. 2013 Reducing Health Disparities in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Summit. March 22 - 23, 2013 at the Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD Learn More go to top Health Equity AHRQ: New report released. Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science: Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness. Read Full Report go to top HIV/AIDS-STDs CDC: New report released. 2011 STD Surveillance Report. Read Full Report The AIDS Institute: New guidance report released to explain how an organization can request CBA services through the CBA Request Information System (CRIS). Protocols for CBA-to-CBA Services in CRIS/TEC. Read Full Report [PDF | 190KB] Events CDC: Webinar. Community Engagement Webinar for Capacity Building with Clinicians. January 8, 2013 11:00 am PST; 2:00 pm EST Learn More go to top Mental Health Child Trends: New Issue Brief report released. Health Insurance Access and Counseling Receipt and their Association with Later Depressive and Suicidal Symptoms. Read Full Report [PDF | 396KB] go to top Pulmonary Health HHS: New smoking cessation resource website released. BeTobaccoFree.gov, includes: Tobacco Basics, Health Effects, Stop, Don't Start, Campaigns, Tobacco Laws, and Policies and Research. Learn More go to top Substance Abuse SAMHSA: New data reports available using the Restricted-Use Data Analysis System (R-DAS). National Survey on Drug Use and Health: 2-Year R-DAS (2002 - 2003, 2004 - 2005, 2006 - 2007, 2008 - 2009, and 2010 - 2011). Learn More go to top Opportunities for Public Comment SAMHSA: Seeking comments on a new concept paper. SAMHSA's Working Definition of Trauma and Principles and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach. Accepting comments until December 21, 2012. Learn More HHS/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology: HIT Policy Committee (HITPC) seeks public comments on proposed quality measures. Stage 3 Definition of Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Comments will be accepted until January 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm EST. Learn More [PDF | 469KB] go to top

Recertification Workshops: 2013 NFIP Adjuster Certification

2013 NFIP Adjuster Certification Workshop Registration for the 2013 NFIP Adjuster Certification Workshops is now open. Below please find the 2013 workshop schedule with links to each workshop registration page. We ask that you register for only one workshop since space is limited. Adjusters seeking to renew certification must attend an NFIP Adjuster Certification Workshop. Adjusters seeking to become certified must attend an NFIP Workshop and apply for certification with the NFIP Bureau and Statistical Agent, iService. NFIP standards and requirements for Adjuster Certification may be viewed at www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=1584. For more information about the adjuster certification process or to contact NFIP iService, please go to www.nfipiservice.com/adj_cert.html. The NFIP no longer charges a registration fee for the Adjuster Certification Workshop. The workshop is free to attend. Please note that Adjusters seeking optional CE Credits will incur processing fees. Seminars are from 8:30am-4:30pm. Sign-in begins at 8:00am. Dress is Business Casual.

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