Calendar
A list of conferences, professional development opportunities, and public health observance events of interest to injury prevention professionals.
Public Health Observances
- May is National Youth Traffic Safety Month
National Youth Traffic Safety Month sponsored by National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) and Allstate Insurance includes the national competition Act Out Loud, where high school teen driver safety teams are encouraged to submit proposals on how they will promote teen driver safety. Teams can win up to $10,000 to be divided between the winning team and school and would go toward supporting safe driver education efforts.
Submissions deadline is March 26. - May is Healthy Vision Month
This year’s focus is on sports-related eye injury with the theme, “Gear up! There’s more to lose than the game. Use protective eyewear.” Every 13 minutes a sports-related eye injury occurs that is serious enough to be treated in an emergency department. Most occur in children under 15 and can be prevented with the use of protective eyewear. The Healthy Vision Month website, sponsored by the National Eye Institute, has information and promotion products for children, coaches and parents.
2008 Events
May
- 2008 Prevent Child Abuse America National Conference: Connecting the dots ... Turning knowledge into action
May. 19 – May. 22, Milwaukee, WI
This conference presents an excellent opportunity to highlight the role of MCH in primary prevention of child abuse. Consider submitting an abstract if you are involved in such projects.
Conference workshops will discuss: effective prevention strategies and practices; parent education and support; non-profit management; capacity building; and innovative research. Further information including registration and call for proposals are available online.
- Injury Prevention 101
May. 20, Tampa, FL
This free one day course, offered by the Florida Department of Health, is intended to provide participants with injury prevention awareness and knowledge, strengthen local partnerships and bring together the various organizational entities needed to create successful injury prevention programs. The course is anticipated to be approved for continuing education for EMS personnel and nurses. To obtain the $109.00 room rate, please be sure to use the name DOH-Injury Prevention when making your hotel reservations (Quorum Hotel: (813) 289-8200). Deadline for room reservations is April 18, 2008.
Agenda
- Proposal writing basics: How to effectively respond to proposal requests: A three part NACCHO/CDC webinar
May. 29, 1.00-2.30 p.m.
NACCHO and CDC will host a three-part series on proposal writing. These live interactive web tutorials will provide the essential elements for creating strong, data-driven, proposals.
The interactive web tutorial will feature: Writing clear goals and objectives (April 24) Introduction to logic models: Mapping your program (May 8) Developing your statement of need: Using data (May 29)
For additional information about this tutorial, please contact Angela Ablorh-Odjidja, aablorh@naccho.org
June
- Training Course in MCH Epidemiology.
Jun. 2 – Jun. 7, Chicago, IL
This Maternal Child Health Bureau and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention annual national program is aimed primarily at MCH professionals in state and local health departments who have significant responsibility for collecting, processing, analyzing, and reporting maternal and child health data.
The curriculum is designed for trainees with moderately advanced epidemiology and statistical training and applied experience.
Application deadline is April 7, 2008.
July
- NIJ Annual Conference.
Jul. 21 – Jul. 23, Arlington, VA
This conference, hosted annually by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is geared toward criminal justice scholars, policymakers, and practitioners at the local, state, and federal levels to share recent findings in research and technology. Here, researchers and practitioners are encouraged to work together in order to create effective evidence-based policies and practices. This year's conference includes a panel on youth gang research and best practices. Other panel topics that may be of particular interest to MCH professionals include: commercial sexual exploitation of children; school-based prevention programs; and bullying.
Registration is free.
August
- Second Annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media.
Aug. 12 – Aug. 14, Atlanta, GA
This conference, conducted by the CDC’s National Center for Health Marketing, provides a professional forum for researchers and practitioners to share insights, research findings, and best practices to advance the fields of health communication, marketing and media.
The conference planning committee invites abstracts for oral, poster, or roundtable presentations. The topics include: the role of health communication in behavior change; building partnerships; engaging special populations; new frontiers in marketing and media technologies; evaluation of health marketing programs; addressing health disparities; and disseminating evidence-based public health programs. This conference presents an excellent opportunity to highlight the role of MCH in disseminating health information among the populations they serve.
Abstracts deadline is April 18, 2008.
- 9th National Conference on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention.
Aug. 26 – Aug. 28, New Orleans, LA
This conference, conducted by the National Children’s Advocacy Center, will discuss the skills in child abuse prevention, intervention and treatment.
The conference committee invites workshop applications on interventions which include the following areas: home visitation, parenting, early childhood, school-based, youth development, and public awareness programs.
Workshop applications deadline is April 25, 2008.
Early registration deadline is April 25, 2008. Early registration is $249. For more information, to submit a workshop application, and to register, visit the web site.
September
- ASTHO-NACCHO 2008 Joint Conference: Becoming the healthiest nation in a healthier world.
Sep. 9 – Sep. 12, Sacramento, CA
This conference is expected to attract 1,300 attendees and thus to be the largest gathering of state and local public health officials in the United States. The conference presents an excellent opportunity to highlight the role of MCH in injury prevention. Consider submitting a proposal for a session that would describe how your injury prevention program: promotes health value and equity; helps the United States become the healthiest nation in the world; and develops practices and policies designed to strengthen cooperation between state and local public health agencies.
The proposals deadline is January 29, 2008.
- 18th Annual CityMatCH Urban MCH Leadership Conference. - A life-course perspective: Pathways for improving practice in urban MCH.
Sep. 21 – Sep. 23, Albuquerque, NM
This annual conference is conducted by CityMatCH, a freestanding national membership organization of city and county health departments' maternal and child health programs and leaders representing urban communities in the United States.
All participants are invited to submit promising practice abstracts for oral or poster presentations and for the CityMatCH “Promising practices” report.
An abstract on any recent innovative activity, strategy or lesson learned can be submitted. Special consideration will be given to the projects with a life course perspective.
Conference registration will open on May 19. Abstracts deadline is April 11. For more information and for the abstract submission form, visit the website.
October
- Seventh North American Conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Oct. 5 – Oct. 7, Vancouver, Canada
The topics of this conference, conducted by the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, include: implementing and sustaining prevention programs; evidence based prevention; and investigating abusive head trauma.
- 2008 National Occupational Injury Research Symposium.
Oct. 21 – Oct. 23, Pittsburgh, PA
The fourth National Occupational Injury Research Symposium (NOIRS) is cosponsored by NIOSH, the National Safety Council and the Liberty Mutual Institute for Safety. NOIRS serves as a national forum for researchers to present occupational research findings related to occupational injury prevention.
The agenda includes discussion of “Special risks to adolescent workers” and an “Intervention Evaluation Contest” to recognize outstanding evaluations of interventions designed to prevent work injuries. Contest submissions are due April 1, 2008.
Early registration deadline is March 31, 2008.
- 136th APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition: Public health without borders
Oct. 25 – Oct. 29, San Diego, CA
This year, American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting will cover: injury control and emergency health services; maternal and child health; community health planning and public policy; statistics; and mental health. The “Injury control and emergency health services” section will include : injury data; motor vehicle injuries; recreational injuries; firearm violence; youth violence; and suicide.
November
- 5th Annual International Bullying Prevention Association Conference. - New horizons: The latest in bullying research and prevention.
Nov. 6 – Nov. 7, Indianapolis, IN
This conference, conducted by the International Bullying Prevention Association (IBPA), will discuss current evidence based practices and resources on bullying prevention in schools. The conference committee will accept presentation proposals that represent effective practices, proven solutions, or would add to the professional development of conference participants. Proposals deadline is May 23, 2008. For more information and to propose a presentation, visit the conference website.
- 2008 PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute: Enhancing leadership for child maltreatment prevention.
Nov. 16 – Nov. 19, to May 2009, Chapel Hill, NC
This six month program provides training to experienced child maltreatment prevention teams. Teams of up to six people will be selected based on their experience working together, demonstration of leadership in child maltreatment prevention and readiness to make social and organizational changes in the field. The most successful applicants will be teams working in large metropolitan areas, or at the state, regional or national level. The participants will enhance core competencies in the primary prevention of child maltreatment at the state and/or national level, including: planning and evaluating effective policy interventions and programs; evaluating the research literature and translating science into practice; communicating with media and policy makers through media and legislative advocacy; implementing promising practices; and achieving program sustainability. The Institute will include two intensive three-day, on-site sessions separated by six months of working as a team at home, with selected distance education calls and guidance from an experienced coach focused on a team-developed project.
The most successful applicants will be teams working in large metropolitan areas, or at the state, regional or national level that have already established working relationships. This program presents an excellent learning opportunity for MCH programs with a State Performance Measure of child abuse, as well as other professionals involved in primary prevention of child abuse. Consider participating if you are involved in such projects. Application deadline is August 1, 2008. Associated cost is $750.
