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Center News

CTC Monthly Meeting

Next meeting:
The last meeting of the academic year was held on Tuesday, June 17. Meetings will resume in September.

Please email gctc@georgetown.edu for more information.

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action (PCHP)

Inaugural issue has been published
 
PCHP is a national peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the work of community health partnerships. PCHP addresses topics in the growing field of CBPR while promoting further collaboration and elevating the visibility and stature of CBPR as an approach to eliminating health disparities and improving health outcomes.  Each issue will include peer-reviewed articles of original research involving community health partnerships, as well as other types of scholarly articles on the broad range of topics relevant to CBPR.

PCHP will publish articles related to: original research, work-in-progress, lessons learned, theory and methods, policy and practice, education and training, practical tools, systematic reviews, and community perspectives.  

http://pchp.press.jhu.edu

Trauma Survivors in Our Community: Integrating Mental Health into Primary Care

DVD of event held April 27th, 2006 now available

To request a copy, please send an email to gctc@georgetown.edu with your mailing address.

The Cultural and Linguistic Competence Health Practitioner Assessment CME Model

Drs. Chung and Green are collaborating with Georgetown¹s National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) on a project entitled The Cultural and Linguistic Competence Health Practitioner Assessment CME Model.  NCCC grant Co-Directors are Dr. Suzanne Bronheim and Tawara Goode, MA, with funding from Initiative for Decreasing Disparities in Depression supported by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.  This web-based curriculum aims to increase physician knowledge and self-awareness as they apply to treating depression in diverse primary care populations.

Dr. Janice Krupnick has been name faculty leader of My Sister's Place, a shelter for battered women and children in Washington, D.C.

Launch of CMHS' National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC)

The National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC) offers free and low-cost trauma training and technical assistance to publicly-funded programs and systems. NCTIC also provides education and outreach, a speakers bureau, and resources to stimulate and support change to address the trauma experienced by so many survivors. NCTIC tailors its training and technical assistance to support your organization in taking this important step forward. NCTIC also provides implementation support and other related resources to assist you with integrating trauma-informed concepts and trauma-specific interventions into agency or program management in a productive and sustainable manner.

http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/nctic

Conferences & Meetings

CTC Fall Conference
Stress, Trauma, and Health
October 25, 2007
Georgetown University
Washington , DC

DVD Now Available Upon Request

Please email gctc@georgetown.edu to request a DVD.
Please include your mailing address.

Flyer

Holistic Health and Medicine

International Society for Holistic Health
4th International Conference

September 17-19, 2008
Four Points Sheraton Hotel - Newtown Pike
Lexington, Kentucky, USA

This 4th international conference will bring together mainstream health care providers as well as  holistic health practitioners to address the latest in knowledge and research in order to find ways to collaborate and work together in order to provide the best possible care of our patients and clients. We believe in building bridges between the various fractions of medicine and health care providers. 

For questions, please contact
Hatim Omar, MD
Tel. 859-323-6426 ext. 311
E-mail: haomar2@uky.edu

Collaboration: The Key to the Medical Home

November 6-9, 2008
Grand Hyatt
Denver, Colorado

http://www.cfha.net/

ISTSS 2008 Annual Meeting

Terror and Its Aftermath

November 13-15, 2008
Chicago, IL

http://www.istss.org/meetings/index.cfm

Conference on Innovations in Trauma Research Methods (CITRM)

November 16-17, 2008
Hotel Orrington
Chicago, IL

http://www.citrm.org/

Call for submitted oral and poster presentations is now open
Extended Deadline: July 15, 2008
http://www.citrm.org/posters.shtml

42nd Annual ABCT Convention

November 13-16, 2008
Dolphin Hotel
Orlando, FL

http://www.aabt.org/

The Family Violence Prevention Fund

Fifth National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence

October 8-10, 2009
New Orleans, LA

http://www.endabuse.org/health/conference/

Program Announcements

The US Department of Health and Human Services has reissued the 
PA for Community Participation in Research as two PA’s:
one for R01 grants and one for R21 grants.
These are a reissue of PAR-05-026, previously released 12/2/2004.

Community-Based Participatory Research (R01) 
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-074.html

Community-Based Participatory Research (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-076.html 

The ultimate goal of these funding opportunities is to support 
research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health 
disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and 
researchers.

Community-Based Participatory Research (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-004.htmll

Research Priorities for the AHRQ-Systems and Organizational
Interventions for Improving Healthcare Quality for Low-income People
served in Under-resourced Settings and Communities
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-07-045.html

Research on Improving Health Care for Obese Patients (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-013.html

Development, Application, and Evaluation of Prediction Models for
Cancer Risk and Prognosis (R01)
National Cancer Institute
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-021.html

Health Disparities in NIDDK Diseases (R01)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-027.html

Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social 
Sciences (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-060.html

Parenting Capacities and Health Outcomes in Youths and 
Adolescents (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-061.html

Biobehavioral Methods to Improve Outcomes Research (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-072.html

Women's Mental Health in Pregnancy and the Postpartum 
Period (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-081.html

Recent HIV Infection: New Prevention Challenges and 
Opportunities (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-087.html

Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-020.html

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-086.html

Chronic Illness Self-Management in Children and Adolescents (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-097.html