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Getting to Know Georgia's Department of Community Health Georgia is facing an urgent call for a statewide campaign to heighten awareness of resources available to families of special needs children. Georgia's Department of Community Health (DCH) and Family Connection Partnership are state partners and advocates for children. Not all families in your community are aware of the many services provided by DCH. Created in 1999 by Gov. Roy Barnes and the Georgia General Assembly, DCH is responsible for:
DCH has the mission of working to improve health and access to care for Georgians. To achieve this mission, DCH is divided into separate divisions and offices. The Division of Medical Assistance, the largest division, administers the Medicaid program, providing health care for people who are aged, blind, disabled or indigent. It also administers PeachCare for Kids, the State children's health insurance program, and the Indigent Care Trust Fund. Other Medicaid programs include Georgia Better Health Care, home and community-based services, and non-emergency transportation. The Division of Health Planning collects health care data and helps develop policies for health care services. The Division of Public Employee Health Benefits administers the State's Health Benefit Plan for state employees, school personnel and retirees. The Office of Rural Health Services works to improve access to health care in rural areas and reduce health status disparities by:
The Office of Minority Health helps minority communities reach a high level of health and wellness and works to eliminate the discrepancy in health status between minority and non-minority population in Georgia.
See How Your Local Candidates Feel about Children's Issues Find out how the candidates running in your district prioritize issues affecting Georgia's children. Visit http://childwelfare.net for the results of a recent questionnaire on the issues of child protection and child well-being mailed out to all candidates running for state and federal offices. The Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic of the Emory University Law School recently posted the results on their Web site. The questionnaire asked candidates to place a level of priority on children's issues ranging from poverty to child abuse prevention, intervention and treatment, and child endangerment legislation. Candidates recorded their views about the child abuse reporting statute, access to health care for foster youth, and advocacy initiatives. The coalition of child advocacy organizations that developed the questionnaire includes:
Do you work with teen mothers? A writer is looking for submissions from teen mothers on their positive experiences of parenting during their teen years. If you know of a teen mom (or an adult who gave birth to her first child when she was a teen) who might be interested in contributing, please pass along the following announcement. You Don't Look Old Enough to be a Mother: Teen Moms on Love, Learning and Success How has your unique perspective as a teenage mother allowed you to meet life's challenges in an interesting or unusual way? A writer is seeking unapologetic, clearly and honestly written personal essays for an anthology about women's positive experiences as teen mothers. Your stories have the power to dispel myths about teen moms and inspire young mothers and others who know or work with them. You Don't Look Old Enough to be a Mother will amplify teen mothers' voices, offering a glimpse into the questions and challenges you face in crafting lives for yourselves and your children: How did you choose to take on the responsibilities of motherhood? How have you balanced raising your children and continuing to grow yourself? How have you coped to achieve your goals and dreams in a society that offers teen parents little understanding or support? Rather than write your entire becoming-a-mother story, focus on one positive or empowering experience that shows how becoming a mother has contributed to greater self-awareness, improved self-esteem, a healthier lifestyle, achieving your goals, or feeling a sense of satisfaction. Your essay should emphasize the choices you made to move through the challenges of that experience, with particular emphasis on the positive part of your story. Suggested topics include: pregnancy, birth, nursing, friendships, relationships, parenting, school, learning, welfare, money, work, families, parents, grandparents, teachers, mentors, community, fun, identity, self-esteem, love, rights, support, politics, stereotypes, statistics, home, and housing. Contributors may be of any age, as long as they gave birth during their teen years. No prior publishing experience is required but contributors must be willing to rewrite. Essays may be submitted by e-mail or regular mail. For e-mail, send as an attachment or paste into the body of your e-mail. Send submissions and questions to editor@teenmombook.com. Or send by regular mail to: Deborah Davis/Anthology, 6000 17th Ave. SW #22, Seattle, WA 98106. Please include your full name, address, phone number, and e-mail address.
The Georgia Department of Human Resources includes the following multicultural health resources on its Web site: American
Cancer Society offers a Spanish-language version of its Web site. Center for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) has information about anthrax in Spanish. The Clinic for Education and Prevention of Addiction is the first Latino clinic to earn a license by the Georgia Department of Human Resources as an Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment and Education Program. Georgia Department of Community Health, Office of Minority Health's Georgia HIV/AIDS Project helps identify programs and organizations that want to participate in HIV/AIDS efforts. Health and Human Services (HHS) Web site offers Spanish-language health information on more than 300 topics from 70 government agencies and nonprofit organizations. It includes a Spanish text search and a list of topics in Spanish. Users can switch between Spanish and English versions of the same information, as needed. Healthfinder
is a free Spanish/English guide to reliable consumer health and human
services information, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. La
Linea Nacional Prenatal Hispana is a bilingual telephone hotline. The
National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC), in partnership with the
National Institute of Health Office on AIDS Research www.nih.gov/od/oar,
is accepting proposals for its Equal Access Computer Grants Initiative. Occupational
Safety and Health Administration offers a new Spanish Web page
to reach out to Spanish-speaking employers and workers. The Web page initially
focuses on several areas: an overview of OSHA and its mission; how to
file complaints electronically in Spanish; worker and employer rights
and responsibilities; and a list of resources for employers and workers.
The page features other highlights from the agency's Web site. The Pan American Health Organization's Library is available in Spanish at Salud y ambiente: Epidemiologia. Spanish
Version of Health Fact Sheets Online with helpful information
on rare diseases, medical devices, "mad cow disease," the safety
of the food supply, and other topics. Su
Familia, the National Hispanic Family Health Helpline, is now
available, offering free, reliable and confidential health information
in Spanish and English. Teen Pregnancy Prevention information (in English or Spanish versions) from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Web site.
OneGeorgia Authority is offering financial assistance to enhance 9-1-1 emergency telephone services in multi-county regions that are not currently served by 9-1-1. Eligible counties include Atkinson, Baker, Berrien, Bleckley, Candler, Clay, Clinch, Cook, Crawford, Dooly, Hancock, Irwin, Johnson, Lanier, Macon, Marion, McIntosh, Pulaski, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart, Talbot, Taliaferro, Taylor, Telfair, Treutlen, Warren, Webster, and Wheeler. For more information visit www.onegeorgia.org/funds.html. Arts organizations can partner with non-arts organizations through grants available from the Georgia Council for the Arts. For information visit www.nonprofitgeorgia.org/members/quicktake1002.html#news1. Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide is a general guide to coalition development. Although examples are specific to injury prevention coalitions, most can be applied to coalitions working on a variety of health-related issues. For a copy of the report, call (510) 444-7738, e-mail prevent@preventioninstitute.org, or visit www.preventioninstitute.org/eightstep.html. Georgia Center for Nonprofits fall workshops include: Strategies to Increase Giving From Individuals; Effective Advocacy in the Georgia General Assembly; Complying with State and Federal Regulations for Government Grants; Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Ask; Planning Your Retirement; Acquiring Government Support: Applying for Federal, State and Local Grants; Recession Reality Check; and The Excellence Series (The Certificate in Nonprofit Management. For more details visit www.nonprofitgeorgia.org/workshops.html. Nonprofit news from around the country is available daily at www.nonprofitgeorgia.org. For rural health funding opportunities, see the federal Rural Information Center Health Service at www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richs/funding.htm. Salary-support
grants for capacity building and leadership development are available
for small nonprofits. New Voice, a national grant program, is offering
its 2003 fellowship grants to help nonprofits bring innovative, new talent
to their staffs. For details visit http://newvoices.aed.org/home.html. State
health care facts and figures are available at the Henry J. Kaiser
Foundation Web site The sixth edition of trends in the well-being of our nation's children and youth is now available from the Department of Health and Human Services. The report presents the estimates on more than 80 indicators of well-being. Topics include economic security, health conditions and health care, social development and behavioral health, and education and achievement. For a copy of the report, see http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/01trends/intro.htm.
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