Division of

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DCAFH

• Division of
• Child, Adolescent and
• Family Health

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DCAFH
David Heppel Peter Conway, Deputy Director Doris
Zuessman
Infant and Early Childhood Health Branch Phyllis
Stubbs-Wynn Chief Lorraine Brown, Dena Green,
Paul Rusinko, Joe Zogby, Yolanda Baker Stephanie
Bryn Seeta Gowda

• Office of
• Adolescent Health
• Trina M. Anglin
• Chief
• Sharon Adamo,
• Isadora Hare,
• Audrey Yowell,
• Dan Kavanaugh,
• Tina Turgel,
• Ivy Vedamuthu,
• Mark Nehring,
• Sweena Aulakh,
• Pam Vodicka

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DCAFH Activities

• Adolescent Health Support Network (National
  Adolescent Health Information Center, State
  Adolescent Health Coordinators Network, National
  Adolescent Health Center for State MCH Personnel,
  Association of Maternal and Child Health
  Programs)
• Bright Futures
• Child Abuse/Neglect
• Child Care
• Child Death Review
• Community Integrated Services Systems (CISS)
• Comprehensive Adolescent Health
• Early Childhood Health and Development
• Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC)
• Immunization

• Integrated Health and Behavioral Health Care for
  Children, Adolescents and their Families
• Injury Violence Prevention/Childrens Safety
  Network
• Lead Poisoning
• Medical Home
• Mental Health
• Oral Health
• Parenting/Parental support
• Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent
  Health (PIPPAH)
• Partnership for Information and Communication
  (PIC)
• Quality Measurement/Improvement
• School Health and Safety
• State Early Childhood Comprehensive Care Systems
  Initiative
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
• Suicide Prevention

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Office of Adolescent Health

• PROGRAMMATIC THEMES
• Comprehensive purview of adolescent health
• Healthy youth development
• Partnership formation
• Support to States and communities
• National Initiative to Improve Adolescent
  Health by 2010

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Office of Adolescent Health

• AREAS OF ENDEAVOR
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• SCHOOL HEALTH
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• National Coordinating Committee on School
  Health
• Center on School-Based Health Care
• Mental Health in Schools
• PROMOTION OF MENTAL HEALTH    
• Mental Health in Schools (with co-support
  from SAMHSA)
• Integrated Health and Behavioral Health
  Care

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Office of Adolescent Health

• AREAS OF ENDEAVOR (cont)
• PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH PROFESSIONAL
  ORGANIZATIONS
• Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent
  Health
• National Coordinating Committee on School
  Health and Safety
• Adolescent Health Resource Cooperative Agreement
  Program
• - National Adolescent Health Information
  Center (NAHIC)
• - Public Policy Analysis and Education
  Center for Middle Childhood,
  Adolescent and Young Adult
  Health (PAE/CAYAH)
• - State Adolescent Health Resource Center
  for MCH Personnel (SAMCH)

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Office of Adolescent Health

• AREAS OF ENDEAVOR (cont)
• NATIONAL INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE ADOLESCENT HEALTH
• BY THE YEAR 2010
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• With CDC/DASH
• Based on Healthy People 2010 objectives and MCH
  performance measures
• Uses a healthy youth development framework
• Current foci
• - States
• - National professional membership
  associations
• Participation by several MCHB programs
  with principal support by
• Adolescent Health Resource Cooperative Agreement
  Program

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Emergency Medical Services for Children

• To reduce child and youth mortality and
• morbidity sustained due to severe illness
• or trauma
• 56 Partnership Grants 50 States, 5 Territories,
  and the District of Columbia
• Enhancing Pediatric Patient Safety Grants
• National Trauma Registry for Children Planning
  Grants
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Children Grants
• Targeted Issues Grants
• Enhancing technical assistance to States
• National EMSC Data Analysis Resource Center
  NEDARC
• EMSC National Resource Center Childrens
  National Medical Center
• Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network
  (PECARN)

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MCHB Oral Health Program

• MCHB Leadership Role
• Block Grants and SPRANS
• Partnerships
• States and Communities, Health Professions,
• National Organizations Foundations, HRSA Field
  Offices
• Other Federal Agencies
• Model guidelines and tools
• anticipatory guidance, needs assessment,
• public health program models,
• community development,
• how to manual, standardization tool
• Oral Health Support Systems
• National Resource Center
• Statewide oral health program assessments
• Sealant programs
• School-based / school-linked programs
• http//www.mchoralhealth.org/
• National Oral Health Policy Center

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Infant and Child Health Branch

• Areas of Emphasis
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Child Health Systems Development
• (SCHIP)
• Community Organization
• Health and Safety in Child Care
• State Maternal and Child Health Early Childhood
  Comprehensive Systems Grants

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Early Childhood Development/Healthy Child Care
America

• CORE PROGRAMS AREAS
• 1. Quality Assurance
• 2. Infrastructure Building
• 3. Outreach

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MCHB STATE EARLY CHILDHOOD COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS
DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

• GOALS
• To provide leadership to the development of
  cross service systems integration partnerships in
  support of children in early childhood and
  enhance their ability to enter school healthy and
  ready to learn.
• To support States and communities in their
  efforts to build early childhood service systems
  that address the following
• access to medical homes
• social -emotional development
• early care and education
• parenting education
• family support.

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Injury/Violence Prevention

• Health, Mental Health Safety in Schools
• With the American Academy of Pediatrics and the
  National Association of School Nurses
• Approximately 125 guidelines developed by 14
  panels
• National Youth Bullying Prevention
  Media Campaign
• Childrens Safety Network

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DCAFH Activities

• Partnership for Information and Communication
  (PIC)
• Purpose To share information about MCH issues
  with decision makers
• Membership National Governors Association,
  National Conference of State Legislatures,
  Association of State and Territorial Health
  Officials, National Association of County and
  City Health Officials, CityMatCH, AMCHP,
  Grantmakers in Health, Healthy Mothers/Healthy
  Babies Coalition, Family Voices, Washington
  Business Group on Health, National Institute for
  Health Care Management Foundation