It's International Overdose Awareness Day. Fore more information, check out https://www.overdoseday. com/
Networking and Information for the Colorado Child Fatality Prevention System's Local and State Teams
Friday, August 31, 2018
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
JOB OPPORTUNITY Youth Advisor Applications Now Open!
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Monday, August 27, 2018
2GO Community Innovation Grant Opportunity!
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Friday, August 24, 2018
Teach Me How to GDL EVENT and Materials Available NOW!
Green Mountain High School will be hosting the Teach Me How to GDL media launch event and you're welcome to attend! See those details below.
Event details:
Where: Green Mountain High School | 13175 W Green Mountain Dr, Lakewood, CO 80228
When: Tuesday, August 28 at 10:00 am | Outside the front entrance
What: Press conference with speakers from CSP, Green Mountain High School Students & Faculty, CDOT
The Teach Me How to GDL Materials are here! Please share out with your community partners - the more widely they are spread the more awareness we can raise about GDL during this critical back to school period. Spanish materials are under development and will be added to the DropBox soon If you'd like help with outreach ideas, you're welcome to contact Ginna Jones (ginna.jones@state.co.us) or Sam Cole directly. For printed Teach Me How to GDL contact Sam at Sam.Cole@state.co.us. For questions about the campaign materials or dropbox link specifically, you can contact Kristen Barnhill at kristen@ameliecompany.com.
In the DROPBOX LINK:
- Media Toolkit
- PDFs and Word Docs of:
- How To Spread the Word in Your Community
- Key Campaign Contacts
- Messaging Platform + FAQ
- Social Media How To Guide
- How To Organize a Community or Media Event
- How To Organize a Community or Media Event_OneSheeter
- Poster
- GDL Poster PDF
- Social Assets
- Social Media How To Guide
- GDL Partner Posts
- Partner Photos & Videos
- Snapchat
Thursday, August 23, 2018
EVENT Annual Breastival: Free Family Festival Sunday, August 26
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
FORUM Improving Access to Pediatric Behavioral Health Services
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Monday, August 20, 2018
An Introduction to the System!
The Child Fatality Prevention Systems just released an updated version of it's Operations Manual, now called "An Introduction to the System". For anyone interested in learning more about the system, click the cover to review or click here to access from the website. To all of our state and local team members, please read the new manual and dispose of all old versions at this time.
Friday, August 17, 2018
2018 Colorado Motor Vehicle Problem Identification Report and Dashboard
New Report Release: 2018 Colorado Problem Identification Report This report gives an overview of fatalities and injuries from motor vehicle crashes over time in the state of Colorado. It was created in partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation and includes known crash characteristics including crashes involving bicyclists, pedestrians, impaired driving, seat belts, etc. These crash characteristics are used to help policy makers, community organizations, and individuals identify where and how to focus prevention efforts. The report below provides an overview of the latest results and changes over time and progress on key state performance measures for motor vehicle safety. The 2018 Problem Identification Dashboard provides motor vehicle crash data by the county and Regional Emergency Trauma Advisory Council region (RETAC) where crashes occur in the state of Colorado. Both the report and dashboard can be accessed here. Be sure to check it out! |
Thursday, August 16, 2018
RESOURCE Overview on Child Neglect
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
FUNDING Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program. The purpose of this program is to support community-based services aimed at improving the health status of children, adolescents, and families in rural and other underserved communities by increasing their access to health services. This program supports HRSA's goals to improve access to quality health care and services, build healthy communities, and improve health equity.
Deadline to apply: October 1, 2018
Community-based programs and evidence-based models of care that build on existing community resources will be implemented and evaluated to demonstrate program impact. This program supports collaboration between local pediatric providers and community leaders in an effort to provide quality health care and preventive health services to children, adolescents, and families in rural and other underserved communities.
HTPCP funding supports projects that provide clinical or public health services, and does not support research projects. HTPCP applications MUST represent either a new initiative (i.e., project that was not previously in existence) within the community or an innovative new component that builds upon an existing community-based program or initiative.
Of particular interest are clinical and public health interventions in community-based settings in the following topical areas:
- Early child development/school readiness
- Medical home (including enhanced family and adolescents engagement)
- Care coordination and case management
- Oral health
- Substance use services (including the integration of substance use services for children and adolescents at-risk for or have substance use disorders (SUD), or assessing for substance use and SUD during pre-natal and well-child visits)
- Mental health
- School-based health
- Healthy weight promotion and physical activity
To access the full Notice of Funding Opportunity, click here
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Monday, August 13, 2018
OPPORTUNITY Youth PRIDE Coalition
If you want more information, click here, or contact Jessie Shay with questions!
970-402-8372 jessie.a.shay@gmail.com
Please share with any youth and your contacts that work with youth!
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
FUNDING Community Based Child Abuse Prevention
The Colorado Department of Human Services has posted RFP 2019000012 Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP), in Colorado's Vendor Self Service (ColoradoVSS) web application. You can access ColoradoVSS at www.colorado.gov/vss and use the RFP to locate all documents and information related to this RFP by inputting the RFP number 2018000012.
UPDATED DEADLINE! The new deadline to apply: August 30, 2018 2pm
Purpose
The purpose of the CBCAP program is to develop, operate, expand, enhance and coordinate initiatives, programs, and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect and to support the coordination of resources and activities to better strengthen and support families to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect, to foster understanding, appreciation and knowledge of diverse populations in order to effectively prevent and treat child abuse and neglect. Click here for more information
RFA Application, Information and Timeline can be found here
UPDATED DEADLINE! The new deadline to apply: August 30, 2018 2pm
Purpose
The purpose of the CBCAP program is to develop, operate, expand, enhance and coordinate initiatives, programs, and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect and to support the coordination of resources and activities to better strengthen and support families to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect, to foster understanding, appreciation and knowledge of diverse populations in order to effectively prevent and treat child abuse and neglect. Click here for more information
RFA Application, Information and Timeline can be found here
Monday, August 6, 2018
OPPORTUNITY: Youth Suicide Prevention Symposium Registration and call for proposals!
CALL FOR PROPOSALS! The review committee is looking for workshops that would be appropriate for one or more of
the following tracks:
Typically our audience for suicide workshops have included school mental health professionals
but we would like workshops to appeal to administrators, teachers, community mental health
providers and emergency responders that work with our schools. For more information about submitting proposals, click here.
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Friday, August 3, 2018
High-quality connections to school, parents, and neighborhood can protect youth from delinquent behaviors

A new report examines how protective factors at the family, peer, school, and community levels influence the relationship between self-reported experiences of child maltreatment and later delinquent or criminal behaviors among adolescents and young adults. The authors find that certain protective factors (especially high-quality connections to school, parents, and their neighborhood) can impact the likelihood that youth will engage in delinquent behavior. A connection to school is particularly protective for youth who have experienced maltreatment.
These findings suggest that strengthening the connections among youth who have experienced maltreatment to supportive peer, family, and school environments may be an important strategy for helping these youth avoid engagement with the juvenile and adult justice systems.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
EVENT Partnering with Purpose Conference

Early-Bird Registration Ends Friday, Aug. 3
2018 CityMatCH Leadership and MCH Epidemiology Conference
CityMatCH is a collaborative partner in the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention’s four year cooperative agreement with the Health Resource Service Administration (HRSA). Their annual conference is an excellent opportunity for urban maternal child heath leaders to share experiences, enhance knowledge, and generate new ideas for promoting and improving the health of women, children and families. Participants can expect to discover critical elements of evidence-based public health programs; innovative strategies to enhance the reach and impact of these programs; national recommendations and examples for public health programs and policies at the local and state level; and health impacts of established and proposed federal, state and local policies that affect maternal and child health populations.
- The preliminary agenda is available online.
- We invite you to tell your colleagues about this conference! Share this link with them: https://www.citymatch.org/
conference/
Register by Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 to receive the early-bird rate of $475. Registrations after Aug. 3 are subject to the general rate of $525.
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
August is National Breastfeeding Month and August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week
The month of August is National Breastfeeding Month and August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week.
Both are annual celebrations of breastfeeding that encourages families, communities and the world to support breastfeeding to improve the health of mothers and babies.
Using the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action’s (WABA) 2018 World Breastfeeding Week logo and theme of Breastfeeding: Foundation of Life, the Colorado WIC Program has adapted focus points and developed materials to share with breastfeeding families (click here).
The below focus points reinforce the importance and impact of breastfeeding on mom, baby, family, the community and the environment.
- Building Health - To receive the most health benefits, breastfeed for at least one year.
- Building Well-Being - You are enough.
- Building a Brighter Future - Benefits that last.
Please review and download the Action Ideas information and use materials provided in the Action Packet. Please share any of the materials to those in your community.
The foundation and growth of breastfeeding success starts with mom and baby and her immediate breastfeeding support system. Breastfeeding support can, or should be found in several areas within each community:
- Hospitals
- Healthcare providers
- WIC
- Community resources
- Work and school
- Child care
- Family and friends
Consider targeting 1-2 of the support areas in your community during the month of August to increase breastfeeding support for moms and families in your community!
Visit www.breastfeedcolorado.com for more materials and information to spread the word!
Join the nation in celebrating and promoting breastfeeding during the month of August and learn what role you can play in helping women find the support and encouragement they need to reach their breastfeeding goals!
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