Funding Annoucements

Supporting Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Screening and Intervention

The HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funds programs that reduce alcohol use among pregnant women and improve developmental outcomes for youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Deadline is June 9.

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Alaska Native Tribal Resource Center on Domestic Violence

The HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF) supports Alaska Native Tribes and Tribal organizations in their response to family violence, domestic violence and dating violence in a culturally sensitive and relevant manner.
Deadline is June 26.

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Other Public Health News

Every Contact Counts: Contact Tracing for Public Health Professionals

May 20, 2020

Online Course

Cost: Free

Time: 90 minutes

Help your public health agency expand contact tracing efforts and slow the spread of COVID-19 with Every Contact Counts—a free, 90-minute training. Public health professionals, who have little or no experience with contact tracing, will learn the basics to be successful as they reach out to community members and help save lives.

With Every Contact Counts, public health professionals will be able to:

Describe contact tracing and why it’s important to public health.
Articulate why COVID-19 is unique when it comes contact tracing.
Identify the key components of a successful contact tracing interview.
Complete a contact tracing interview with confidence, clarity, and compassion.

“It’s through those contact tracing efforts that we can make people aware that they need to be monitoring their symptoms and may need to isolate themselves,” said Janet Baseman, a professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. Baseman is also part of the NWCPHP team designing the Every Contact Counts training.

Every Contact Counts can complement existing disease surveillance systems, programs, and trainings organizations are already using to help monitor the public’s health. Every Contact Counts also provides an interactive, innovative learning experience through interview skill-building videos, quizzes, and an exercise where participants practice key decision-making during a contact interview.

“Contact tracing is going to be an essential part of our reopening and containment efforts moving forward,” Baseman said. “We need to trace every contact possible, because every contact counts in stopping this disease.”