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| July 10, 2019  In This Issue: Federal Grants - U.S. Department of Education (ED)/Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): School Climate Transformation Grant Program: Local Educational Agency Grants. Provides funding to local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop, enhance or expand systems of support for improving school climate, including systems that address cultural competence, bullying, substance abuse and mental health.
Deadline is July 22. Learn more.
- U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)/Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP): Specialized Services and Mentoring for Child and Youth Victims of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation. Funded organizations work with OJJDP to develop or enhance mentoring service models and training to focus on the needs of girls and boys who are at risk or are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic sex trafficking.
Deadline is July 29. Learn more.
- ED/OESE: Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program. Provides funding to support and demonstrate partnerships to train school-based mental health services providers for employment in high-needs schools and LEAs.
Deadline is August 5. Learn more.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): 2019 Continuum of Care Program Competition. Provides funding for efforts to quickly re-house homeless individuals, families, persons fleeing domestic violence and youth.
Deadline is September 30. Learn more. Non-Federal Grants - Stonewall Community Foundation: Amida Care Fund. Supports New York City-based HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention strategies, especially those that engage members of the LGBTQ community who are most at risk for HIV infection or who are HIV-positive but not virally suppressed or receiving necessary care.
Deadline is July 26. Learn more.
- Kresge Foundation: Boosting Opportunities for Social and Economic Mobility for Families (BOOST). Seeks to strengthen partnerships between community colleges and human services nonprofits that connect low-income people to critical human services supports and educational pathways that advance social and economic mobility.
Deadline is July 26. Learn more.
- Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank: The TD Ready Challenge. TD seeks proposals focused on improving access to the early detection of disease, as well as programs grounded in clinical solutions focused on preventative efforts such as screening and intervention innovations.
Deadline is August 23. Learn more.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF): Building Capacity to Reduce Tobacco Inequities in the South and Midwest. Provides support to Black communities, persons of lower socioeconomic status and rural residents in the South and Midwest in order to increase their ability to advocate for stronger, locally or regionally-driven tobacco-control and prevention policies and practices.
Deadline is August 29. Learn more. Scholarships / Fellowships - First Nations Development Institute, in partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation: Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship. Awards funds to American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) engaged in work that benefits AI/AN people and communities, including work in the areas of food systems, youth leadership development and climate change.
Deadline is September 13. Learn more. Webinars - HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Telehealth Learning webinar series. The Use of Telehealth to Improve Children's Access to Health Care. This webinar will address current telehealth models and initiatives to improve access to pediatric specialty care in Iowa, as well as tips for establishing a school-based telehealth clinic.
TODAY, July 10, 3:00 pm ET. Register.
- American Public Health Association (APHA) and the National Environmental Health Partnership Council: Achieving Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: The Way Forward. This webinar will address environmental justice, racism and the resources available to communities, practitioners and the public. The webinar will also highlight various partnerships working to create awareness and address racism and environmental justice.
July 18, 1:00 pm ET. Register. Conferences - Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition: Registration is open for the State of Chronic Disease Disparities in the African American Community Conference, Getting to the Root Through Education, Advocacy and Empowerment.
August 16-17 in Beachwood, OH. Register.
- National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP): Registration is open for the 32nd Annual NASHP State Health Policy Conference.
August 21-23 in Chicago, IL. Register.
 | | - Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US): Registration is open for the 9th Annual IM4US Conference, Solidarity and Self-Care - Supporting Social Justice and Balance in Integrative Health.
August 22-24 in Santa Clara, CA. Register. | Other Events - The Council on Black Health (CBH): 2019 CBH National Workshop. This event will focus on building the collective capacity of Black scholars, institutions and change agents to plan and promote a high impact action agenda devoted to changing the course of Black health for the better and for the long term.
August 7-9 in Philadelphia, PA. Register. - Seattle Indian Health Board/Urban Indian Health Institute: Toolkit. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) - Community Days of Action. National Community Days of Action will be held in July and August and are an opportunity for AI/AN communities to gather and bring awareness to the MMIWG crisis. This toolkit provides guidance on how to host your own Day of Action and on how to enter missing relatives' information in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). Learn more.
 | | - Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC): Call for research as part of the AAMC Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE). AAMC is soliciting proposals that pose cutting-edge research questions, which facilitate solutions to health and health care disparities. Three to five researchers and/or research teams will receive unrestricted access to the AAMC Consumer Survey of Health Care Access data, which provides demographic and contextual health information for a nationally representative sample of over 2,000 respondents.
Deadline for proposals is July 24. Learn more. | - HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Phase 1 clinical trial. Effects of SRX246, a Vasopressin Receptor (V1a) Antagonist, on an Experimental Model of Fear and Anxiety in Humans. NIH researchers seek healthy volunteers age 21-50 years old. Study to be conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. Learn more.
- The University of Florida (UF), in collaboration with the NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): Early phase 1 clinical trial. Impulsivity and Alcohol Response (IDEA). Researchers seek volunteers age 21-30 years old who have engaged in heavy drinking within the prior 30 days. Study to be conducted at UF Health in Gainesville, Fla. Learn more.
The report States of Despair: Closer Look at Rising State Death Rates from Drugs, Alcohol, and Suicide looks at increased mortality caused by the opioid crisis. The document compares data state to state, revealing the regions with the greatest rise in deaths from alcohol, drugs, or suicide. It also discusses policies and services that can help reduce addiction and overdose.
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