NEWSBLAST
Good Morning, Thursday, March 24, 2011
HEADLINES:
1.) Navajo Nation working with counties to boost law enforcement
http://64.38.12.138/News/2011/000900.asp
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS/NEWS RELEASES
http://www.indiegogo.com/Whats-in-the-Heart
INTERN POSITION
NM Administrative Office of the Courts
(administrative arm of the NM Supreme Court)
SPRING – SUMMER – FALL 2011
The Tribal-State Judicial Consortium is an advisory body of the New Mexico Supreme Court serving to build and strengthen relationships and foster communications among State and Tribal Courts and other criminal justice partners. The Consortium meets quarterly, and has recently conducted a series of summer meetings for a diverse group of participants. The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) staffs the Consortium.
Duties: The judicial intern will work with State and Tribal Judges on questions of jurisdiction, full faith and credit, and Tribal sovereignty particularly in regards to mental health services, implementation of the Sex Offender Registration & Notification Act (SORNA), and domestic violence, among other issues. In addition, the intern will work with the Consortium to identify gaps in State services for Tribal members on and off the reservation, and track new laws, rules and cases and their potential impact on Native Americans.
The intern must possess excellent research, writing, communication, and interpersonal skills as well the ability to work closely with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. Some familiarity with Indian Law will be useful. Most duties can be performed off site, and space may also be available at the AOC’s offices in Santa Fe. The intern will need his/her own transportation and access to e-mail and the Internet. The position will be supervised by one of the Consortium’s judges or participating attorneys; coordination of the student’s work projects will be conducted by Consortium staff at the AOC. Work will be performed on a volunteer basis.
This position offers great opportunities for those seeking to gain exposure to a unique area of the law in New Mexico. Interested? Please contact Kathy Spurgin at 505-827-4808 or send a message to . We look forward to hearing from you!
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES BELOW:
Healthy Minorities, Healthier America
Provided by the Office of Minority Health Resource CenterMarch 08, 2011
National Minority Health Month, April 2011
Are You Ready? April is National Minority Health MonthBring It or Buy It - Make Lunch Healthy, Green and Good!
In Schools, even Food Can Teach Us a Lesson
Minority Health and School Food: What's the Link?
Get Involved
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Suggested ActivitiesRegister Your Event
Upcoming Events Organize a Roundtable or Conference
HIV/AIDS News
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness DayMarch 10
Women and Girls are Taking Action in the Fight against
HIV/AIDS. Now it's time for you to decide:What can you do?
Send a FREE e-card!
Webinar: Nutrition and HIV
Attend the Webinar: Nutrition and HIV: Medications and the Foods We EatThis month, in preparation for the HIV/AIDS Awareness Days and Nutrition Month, the OMHRC will host a webinar on Nutrition and HIV.
Register now .
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Mar. 20th National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD)Learn more and find ways to get involved.
NNHAAD Nationwide Community Events Map
Public Service Announcement 1 [MSWord | 10.9KB]
Public Service Announcement 2 [MSWord | 10.9KB]
Fact Sheet [PDF | 2.2 MB] Products & Incentives
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HIV/AIDS Bilingual Glossary Widget
Add the HIV/AIDS Bilingual Glossary Widget to Your Site!Now you can add to your site the hottest new tool in HIV/AIDS prevention:
The Bilingual Glossary. Find Spanish equivalents for English words and vice versa. Rate the translations. Use the tag cloud to find commonly searched terms.
Check it out! Get this Widget in Spanish
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OMH Awards Grant to Hogg Foundation
OMH Awards Grant to Hogg Foundation to Address Disparities in Mental HealthThe grant to the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health aims to create a national model to improve integrated health care for racial and ethnic minorities and people who speak languages other than English.
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Plans for Implementing National HIV/AIDS Strategy Released
Plans for Implementing National HIV/AIDS Strategy Released [PDF | 1MB]Lead federal agencies for implementing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy have detailed their operational plans for executing the Strategy within their agencies. Each plan addresses selected approaches, activities and initiatives.
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Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Get Screened! March Is Colorectal Cancer Awareness MonthIntestinal screening is a vital way to help beat the third most common cancer among men and women. Find out the facts!
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AHRQ: Disparities in Care Persist
AHRQ: Disparities in Care PersistReports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that although improvements in the quality of care are being made, gaps based on race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status persist.
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Research Corner
Research Corner: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved(Vol. 21, Number 2, May 2010 Supplement)
Views of Young, Rural African Americans of the Role of Community Social Institutions in HIV Prevention. Read Views
Effective Multi-level, Multi-sector, School-based Obesity Prevention Programming Improves Weight, Blood Pressure, and Academic Performance, Especially among Low-Income, Minority Children. View Details
Assessing Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Social Consequences of Early-Onset Psychiatric Disorder. View Details
Immigrant Children's Access to Health Care : Differences by Global Region of Birth
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Health Indicators Warehouse Launched
Health Indicators Warehouse LaunchedHealth Indicators Warehouse site, launched by HHS, provides data for national, state and local health indicators and will serve as the hub for HHS Community Health Data Initiative in an effort to address data transparency.
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Be a follower, to be a leader!
Be a follower, to be a leader!Follow Us: @MinorityHealth
OMH is Using Twitter Keep up with minority health updates, resources, funding and more.
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Want to Keep Up with Weekly Minority Health Updates? Get Our FYI!Check out the latest edition of FYI: Minority Resources...Money & More Now, subscribe to it here!
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Funding / Data/Statistics / Cultural Competency / Health Topics / Minority Populations
Are you tired of the last minute scramble to apply for grants and funding opportunities?
It might be helpful for tribal listserv members to have the save this link to the HHS grants forecast site at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/hhsgrantsforecast/
(this link is already on the CB website under Discretionary Grant Programs- see below)
· Forecasts and future FOAs - as they become available, Children's Bureau Discretionary Grant Funding Opportunity Announcementforecasts are published here - https://extranet.acf.hhs.gov/hhsgrantsforecast/, summaries are published on Grants.gov, and the full announcements are published here - http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/index.html
If you type in ACF into the HHS Grants Forecast Quick Search box in the upper right hand corner of the page, you will be able to pull up grant forecast announcements and then see when they get posted to Grants.gov
Please note amendments to Childhood Obesity Demonstration Grants: 2954-DP11-007 ACA FOA Amendment published today.
These include updated information on:
(1) Access information for the teleconference
(2) Clarification on the # of awards and funding levels
(3) Clarification on eligibility criteria.”
FYI, please see the attached announcement and information below for the Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Funding Opportunity.
Subject: ACA Publication Notice: NCCDPHP RFA-DP-11-007 - The Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Funding Opportunity Announcement
ACA Publication Notice: NCCDPHP RFA-DP-11-007
The Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Funding Opportunity Announcement
The following is notice that RFA-DP-11-007,“Affordable Care Act (ACA): Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration”, has been published on Grants.gov
The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity and partners are pleased to send to you information on a Funding Opportunity Announcement related to Childhood Obesity Research.
Background: The objective of the research demonstrations is to determine whether an integrated model of primary care and public health approaches in the community can improve underserved children’s risk factors for obesity. These approaches may include policy, systems, and environmental supports that encourage nutrition and physical activity for underserved children and their families.
Approach: Grantees will develop, implement, and evaluate multi-sectoral (i.e., childcare, school, community, health care), multi-level (i.e. child, family, organization, community, policy) intervention demonstration projects for underserved children ages 2-12 years and their families utilizing the Obesity Chronic Care Model and other similar models. The Obesity Chronic Care Model provides a framework to integrate primary care and public health approaches with an intent to guides the design of strategies, approaches, systems, and/or tools to ultimately prevent and reduce childhood obesity.
Component A Demonstration Project funded grantees will design, implement, and evaluate the demonstration interventions, with evaluation support from the Component B Evaluation Center funded grantee. Standardized measures across sites will be collected to determine whether the demonstration research project led to changes in preventive services, policy, systems, and environment (e.g. setting, community), and individual outcomes including health (nutrition, physical activity, weight), satisfaction, health care utilization and quality of life.
The results of the Demonstration projects will be used to generate a recommendation that determines whether program components, similar to the awarded demonstration projects, should be implemented nationally for the general population of children who are eligible for child health assistance under Title XXI (CHIP) of the Social Security Act.
The Component B funded grantee, the Evaluation Center, will design and conduct the overarching evaluation that will support this recommendation, in collaboration with the Component A Demonstration Project funded grantees and CDC.
RFA-DP-11-007,“Affordable Care Act (ACA): Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration”
Please also see the attached, published document.
The closing date for this FOA is April 8, 2011.
To Access the Announcement & Application Package:
1. Go to: www.grants.gov
2. Select: “For Applicants”
3. Select: “Find Grant Opportunities”
4. Select: “Basic Search”
5. Type in the Funding Opportunity Number, formatted as: RFA-DP-11-007
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2011 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation - NOW OPEN
For the second year in a row, DOJ is pleased to announce that the Fiscal Year 2011 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) will be available at www.tribaljusticeandsafety.gov beginning at 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 20, 2011 (CTAS Fact Sheet attached). The CTAS combines most of DOJ's available Tribal government-specific competitive grant programs into one solicitation. That means a Tribe will only have to submit one application, which will cover all of these programs. As with all grant solicitations announced during a Continuing Resolution, CTAS awards are subject to the availability of appropriated funds. The CTAS application deadline is Thursday, April 21, 2011.
Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli's Letter to Tribal Leaders announcing CTAS 2011 is attached.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Summer Internship Opportunities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 9 is looking to fill approximately 10 paid summer internships. All internships will be located in San Francisco, CA.
Open Application Period: Late February – Keep checking back here for updates!
Position Title: Engineering or Science Technicians, Environmental Protection Assistant
Salary: Dependent upon students academic experience
Duty Location: 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA
Work Schedule: 40 hours per week
Length of Appt: Approximately 8 weeks start in May/June – End August/September
Who May Apply: Students who are seeking a degree and are enrolled or will be enrolled as a student in Fall 2011. In your resume, please indicate the projected completion date of your degree.
How to Apply: Visit our website and follow on line instructions at http://www.epa.gov/region9/careers/summerinternship/announcement.html...
àThe School for Advanced Research, Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) offers two nine-month internships to Native individuals who are recent college graduates, current graduate students, or junior museum professionals interested in furthering their professional museum experience and enhancing their intellectual capacity for contributing to the expanding field and discourse of museum studies. The internships, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, include a $2200 monthly stipend, housing, book allowance, travel to one professional conference, and reimbursable travel to and from SAR. The deadline to apply is March 30, 2011.
Established in 1978, the IARC houses a collection of over 12,000 items of Native art of the Southwest. The goal of IARC is to bridge the divide between art/creativity and research/scholarship by supporting initiatives and projects that illuminate the intersections of the social sciences, humanities, and arts. For more about the IARC, visit http://iarc.sarweb.org.
Interns will devote their time to working on IARC education and programs, directed research and writing activities, and collections management and registration. In addition to daily duties, specific requirements include presenting a research paper at the SAR Colloquium Series; attending a national conference; providing tours of the IARC collection; and working on outreach initiatives to Native communities.
Again, the deadline to apply is March 30, 2011. All application materials must be postmarked or time stamped by this date. There are no exceptions. The internship period is September 1, 2011-May 31, 2012. Visit our website to download the application: http://internships.sarweb.org
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES:
A Training for Tribes implementing the Federal Adam Walsh Act's provisions relating to the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) will be held May 4-5 in Espanola. Please see link for specific information: http://www.fvtc.edu/public/content.aspx?ID=2047&PID=4
UPCOMING EVENTS (THIS LIST IS NOT EXTENSIVE):
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Are you Creative?
Are you an Inventor?
Do you want to someday own your own small business?
Come and EXHIBIT your creativity at:
2011 Entrepreneur Expo
Entrepreneurs/Inventors sign-up NOW!
In spring 2011 the University of New Mexico Gallup campus will convene its first Entrepreneur Expo. The host will be the Business Management and Technology Department who is spearheading the establishment of the Rural Entrepreneur Institute (REI) which will serve as a resource center for individuals who want to own and operate their own "small" business.