Chester County
Healthy Communities Partnership
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Chester County
Healthy Communities Partnership
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June 27, 2008
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News From The Commonwealth |
Chester County Healthy Communities Partnership For more information, contact Amy Rothenberger.
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Upcoming events |
Free Webinars for Nonprofit Organizations!
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Resources and Tools |
Developing Effective Citizen Engagement: A How-To Guide for Community Leaders From the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, this guide describes processes for meaningful citizen engagement by community leaders and assists organizations as they engage citizens and stakeholders in local decision-making and other community projects.
Keeping American Healthy, A Catalog of Successful Programs The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, a national coalition of patient, provider and community organizations; business and labor groups; and health policy experts, recently released an online catalog of successful programs aimed at improving wellness and staving off chronic disease. Acknowledging that "effective population health improvement strategies consider the range of physical, environmental and socioeconomic factors that contribute to health," the report identifies exemplary programs based on outcomes data demonstrating health improvements or progress toward other goals, sustainability and replicability. The selected programs span a range of settings, including schools, the workplace, communities and health systems, and share nine essential markers of success.
Highmark Inc. moves forward with funding for physician adoption of health information technology Highmark Inc. announced that it is contributing $29 million to help physicians acquire ePrescribing/eHealth Record technology for their practices. By eliminating handwriting interpretation and administrative work associated with paper processing, integrated electronic technology with ePrescribing and electronic health records capabilities can help ensure patient safety and reduce medical errors and expenses. Such technology systems can also indicate medications that could adversely interact with other drugs. Highmark considers its initiative to be a critical step toward full utilization of electronic health records and the facilitation of health information exchanges that will improve access to patients' medical histories, including medications, test results and care-management programs.
The Diabetes Initiative: Stories and Descriptions of 14 Programs to Improve Self Management
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Funding Opportunities |
National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program
Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP) Application deadline: July 11, 2008
Promoting Science Based Approaches Project Application deadline: August 1, 2008 The Pennsylvania Coalition to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (PCPTP) Science-Based Approaches Project is part of a national effort, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and in partnership with the National Campaign, Advocates for Youth and Healthy Teen Network, to provide training and technical assistance (T&TA) to build the capacity of local organizations to plan, select, implement, evaluate and sustain science-based approaches (SBA) to prevent teen pregnancy, HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI). PCPTP will select 5-7 youth-serving organizations or programs to join the project beginning October 1, 2008 for the next two (2) years. This partnership will be an opportunity to move through the “Getting to Outcomes” process – a framework for program goal setting, planning, evaluation and sustainability. Through intensive training and technical assistance, local organizations/programs will be strengthening and improving their programs, while being recognized as a leader in demonstrating science-based approaches by PCPTP, the CDC and National partners.
Volpe and Koenig Charitable Giving Fund Accepting Applications From Philadelphia-Area Nonprofits Since 2007, the intellectual property law firm Volpe and Koenig has formalized its corporate giving through a Charitable Giving Fund. Established as a means to help nonprofit organizations located in the Greater Philadelphia area continue their work in the region, the fund will award two grants of $20,000 each, payable to qualified nonprofits over a two-year period. The Charitable Giving Fund supports programs in the areas of community development, arts and culture, education, and health and human services and supports construction or equipment needs and established or developing programs/projects provided by non-profit organizations located in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, Gloucester, Burlington and Camden counties.
Application deadline: November 24, 2008 This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), encourages research grant applications for projects designed to improve outcomes of smoking cessation in low income adult populations within the United States. Despite significant progress in reducing the prevalence of smoking in the United States, smoking continues to represent a major threat to public health. In addition, decreases in smoking have not been consistent across the population and marked disparities exist with smoking prevalence continuing to remain high among low-income adults. The long-term goal is to facilitate a significant reduction in smoking prevalence among low-income adults, thereby reducing the excess disease burden of tobacco use within these groups and decreasing the prevalence of smoking in the United States as a whole. This FOA is intended to support human research only.
Please contact the funder directly for the most complete and current information, including eligibility criteria.
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Partnership Spotlight |
Tell us about your partnership accomplishments We would like to use this section of our weekly bulletin to highlight your accomplishments and allow you to share them with other SHIP Partners. If you have news, successful programs, new plans, or other important milestones that you would like to share please send a condensed, print-ready article to Amy Rothenberger.
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Comments? Suggestions? |
Please send any comments or suggestions for this and future Bulletins to Amy Rothenberger. Your input is valued and appreciated.
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Disclaimer: The information provided in this bulletin is intended to be of general information to the Pennsylvania's SHIP-affiliated partnerships. It is not intended as an endorsement or recommendation of any specific process, service, product, company or funding source outside of the Department of Health auspices. Further examination and research of information is recommended. |
