The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) has updated its popular fact sheet, Childhood Overweight: What the Research Tells Us. The fact sheet includes findings from articles published through July 2007. To view the latest version, click here.

December 2007 E-Journal
--Future of SCHIP, School Food Unclear as Congress Prepares to Adjourn
--Bullying—It’s Not Just at School Any More
--Healthcare Reform: Is It Doomed to Fail?

• CHHCS In-Focus: Bullying --Is It Part of Growing Up, or Part of School Violence?
• CHHCS E-Journal: Bullying—It’s Not Just at School Any More
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence: Safe Communities, Safe Schools
  
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence: Bullying Prevention: Recommendations for Schools
• HRSA: Stop Bullying Now

• St. Louis, MO: American School Health Association: Health Care 2008 and Business Institute. April 5-6, 2008. For more information please visit http://www.asha.org/about/events/hcare-conf/HC2008.htm

• Miami, FL: 7th Annual Forum for Improving Children's Health Care. March 19-21, 2008. For more information please visit http://www.nichq.org/NICHQ/Programs/ConferencesAndTraining/nichqforum2008.htm

North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund -- Fit Community Grants (North Carolina) (Deadline: 2/1/08)
The North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund, in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, is accepting applications for the Fit Community Grants program to support community efforts to improve physical activity, healthy eating, and tobacco use prevention initiatives in their community, schools, and workplaces.

GE Healthcare -- Grants for Nonprofits (Deadline: 2/1/08)
GE Healthcare is accepting applications for its grants for nonprofit programs that support youth education (birth-18 years old), healthy lives (e.g. combating childhood obesity), or diversity service programs.

Pfizer -- Medical and Academic Partnerships Grants (Deadline: 1/15/08)
Pfizer is accepting applications for its Medical and Academic Partnerships Grants to support career development of junior physician-scientists, post-doctoral researchers, junior faculty members, or visits by experts to academic institutions, teaching hospitals, or other eligible organizations.

Seva Foundation -- Native American Grants Program (Deadline: 1/25/08)
The Seva Foundation is accepting applications for its Native American Grants Program to support community improvements by Native American-led organizations, such as health and wellness activities or educational development.

Federal Research Grants for Secondary Data Analyses Based on the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (R01 and R03) (Deadline: 2/5/08)
The National Institutes of Health is accepting applications for its Secondary Data Analyses Based on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (R01) grant program. The purpose of the program is to support use of the data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development by people from a diverse set of careers (e.g. psychologists, sociologists, economists, statisticians, educators, policy makers, and physician scientists) in investigations into the links between child-rearing environment (e.g. families, childcare settings, schools) and child development over time.

FDA Launches New E-Mail Alerts 
Health care professionals who need up-to-date information about medical products and the food supply have a new resource. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced it’s inaugurating an e-mail service that will alert subscribers whenever information is updated on certain FDA web pages, with subscribers able to specify the kinds of information they want to receive.

Teen Births Rose in 2006
For the first time since 1991, the rate of births to teenagers rose last year, increasing to 41.9 live births per 1000 females ages 15 to 19 years old. The 3 percent increase follows a 14-year downward trend in which teen births had fallen from an all-time peak of 61.8 births per 1000 in 1991.

The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN), which includes data for 2005-2006, was recently released by the for Child & Adolescent Health. This resource includes a tool to generate survey responses about demographics, indicators and outcomes related to children with special needs, as well as to compare this survey with results from the survey conducted in 2001.

CIS Counseling Center, Inc. -- Fee for Service Psychotherapists (New York, NY)
Several positions for fee for service psychotherapists are available at a school-based health center program and at the main mental health office. Minimum of part-time commitments are desirable. For more information and to apply for this position please click here.

Community Alliance with Family Farmers -- Farm-to-School Project Coordinator (Watsonville, CA)
The Farm-to-School Project Coordinator will manage activities at 8-12 elementary schools to promote the benefits of health eating and to teach students about how food is grown on farms until it ends up on the table. The person in this position will also coordinate the transport of food from local farms to schools. For more information and to apply for this position please click here.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health -- School Asthma Management Research Application Fellow (Atlanta, GA)
The School Asthma Management Research Application Fellow will monitor and analyze research related to school asthma management, coordinate meetings among CDC school asthma workgroups and update the division’s website. For more information and to apply for this position please click here and search ‘School Asthma Management Research Application Fellow.’