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November 2002, Volume 3
UPCOMING EVENTS
First Tuesday CBPR Seminar Series
On the first Tuesday of each month the Bloomberg School of Public Health
invites faculty, students, post-doctoral scholars and fellows from all
University divisions, and the community to participate in the First Tuesday
CBPR Seminar Series. This interactive seminar series is designed to enhance
our capacity as a university and community in CBPR.
Next Seminar:
When: December 3, 2002
Speakers: Pat German and Sharon Krag
Location: Hampton House, Room 250
Any questions can be directed to Lee Bone (410-955-6887, lbone@jhsph.edu).
APHA 130th Annual Meeting & Exposition
The American Public Health Associations Annual meeting and exposition
is scheduled for November 9-13, 2002. Dr. Tom O’Toole and Hope Joseph
will be presenting an abstract Monday, November 11, 2002 on the UHI and
community-based participatory research. For more information visit us
on the web at: http://www.apha.org/meetings/
GRANTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) seeks to honor urban
places in the United States that embody excellence, and to celebrate their
contribution to the richness and diversity of the urban experience. The
Award for Urban Excellence is given to five winning projects in each biennial
award cycle. One Gold Medal Winner receives $50,000; four Silver Medal
Winners are awarded $10,000 each. For further information and complete
program guidelines, see the Bruner Foundation Web site. Applications can
be downloaded at the site.
Deadline: December 16, 2002
RFP Link: http://www.brunerfoundation.org/p/rba2003.html
NIH Program Announcement: Economic Evaluation of Drug Abuse Treatment
and Prevention Services for HIV/AIDS-NIDA
Sponsors: Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institutes
of Health (NIH), National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Amount: $100,000.
Deadline: February 01, 2003; June 01, 2003
URL to view this opportunity: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=73644
Faculty Support for Community Based Research
The deadline for this proposal is now past. Selected faculty will be announced
December 15, 2002 with funding to begin January 1, 2003. Special thanks
to all who submitted proposals. We received 9 applications from faculty
across the three heath schools, Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health.
FROM THE FIELD: Community-Academic Partnership
Amazing
Grandmothers’ Project
(The following abstract is being presented at this year’s national
American Public Health Association conference of the work by Lori Edwards,
RN at the JHU SON and her partners at Amazing Grace Lutheran Church, Tench
Tilghman Elementary School, and the Julie Community Center. This project
received seed funding from the Urban Health Institute as part of the “Breaking
the Cycle of Drug Abuse in East Baltimore” initiative.)
The Amazing Grandmothers’ Project is a comprehensive community-based
initiative to partner with grandmothers in their efforts to keep families
intact. The project supports grandmothers as they raise their grandchildren
whose parents are absent due to substance abuse. Multidisciplinary services
are provided to 15 grandmothers and 40 children. Components of the interventions
include home visits by community health nurses, an eight-week nurturing
program, a reading program, monthly dinners focused on family building
and health education, parish nursing, spiritual support, and a grandmothers’
urban gardening project. Families are identified by a family services
worker at a partnership school, Tench Tilghman Elementary School, in collaboration
with the Julie Community Center. Programs are run in a local church, Amazing
Grace Lutheran Church, in partnership with the minister, parish nurse,
and parishioners. The project is a model program for community-academic
partnerships. The need was identified by the community partners who then
sought the academic assistance of the Johns Hopkins University School
of Nursing to develop, implement, and evaluate the program. The project
is funded by the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, focused on advancing
efforts to combat the devastating effects of drugs on the neighborhoods
of urban East Baltimore. Census 2000 data show that more than 4.5 million
grandchildren are living in 2.4 million grandparent-headed households
in the U.S. These amazing grandmothers are addressing this significant
public health issue by supporting efforts to keep families intact.
REQUEST/COMMENTS
UHI-CBPR
Newsletter Details
WHAT IS THE UHI-CBPR NEWSLETTER? It’s an online newsletter for community
based participatory research. UHI-CBPR provides readers with interesting
ideas and resources, all focused on the importance of community-based
participatory research, education and practice in eliminating health disparities
and improving community health. As a subscriber you are encouraged to
contribute appropriate items to this newsletter. If you have news, announcements,
resources, questions, complaints, inquiries or other items of interest,
please send them to newsletter editor Hope Joseph at hjoseph@jhsph.edu
or Tom O’Toole, MD at totoole@jhmi.edu.
If there are others that you feel may benefit or be interested in this
service, please forward us their email addresses.
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