April 14, 2021

The Prevention Resource Guide continues to be grounded in the protective factors that help children, youth, and families build the resilience and skills that increase positive outcomes and decrease their risk of maltreatment.

Building on those foundations, the new edition now focuses on how to overcome barriers and effectively implement these practices.

This year’s guide takes the theme, “Thriving Children and Families: Prevention With Purpose,” and highlights what it can look like when programs and organizations make protective factors the guiding focus.

The Resource Guide looks at what we can do at all levels to prevent child maltreatment. It is through a consistent, holistic approach that addresses the big and small—from systemic inequality and disproportionate representation to the ways families show they love their children—that we can make a real change in the lives of children and families.

Use this guide all year round with schools, after-school programs, community centers, and other organizations in your community.

Share with them the importance of trauma-informed care and how they can incorporate it, or what adverse childhood experiences are and how positive childhood experiences can mitigate poor health outcomes.

No need to wait for shipping, download the 2021/2022 Prevention Resource Guide today and learn what practicing prevention with purpose can look like!

April 1, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART) Model ACO Transformation Track Request for Applications (RFA) release date is delayed from spring 2021 to spring 2022. The CHART Model aims to address disparities by providing a way for rural communities to transform their health care delivery systems by leveraging innovative financial arrangements as well as operational and regulatory flexibilities. This delay applies only to the ACO Transformation Track of the CHART Model. We will notify stakeholders of any updates via the CHART listserv, as information becomes available. Updates for the CHART Model will also be posted to the CHART Model webpage.

April 5, 2021

Preventing Chronic Disease has just released an entire collection of oral health articles. This collection represents the journal’s first ever full-collection focusing exclusively on oral public health. It also includes a guest editorial co-authored by Mr. Casey Hannan and Dr. Lorena Espinoza from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Oral Health, RADM Tim Ricks, and Dr. Jane Weintraub. This editorial and collection of 8 articles discusses contemporary dental public health challenges and opportunities. These include inequities in access to dental care, disparities in prevalence of oral disease, the relationship between oral health and chronic diseases, and the impact of COVID-19 on access to oral health services and disease monitoring.

This editorial’s underlying foundation of the Healthy People 2030 oral health objectives provides solutions for improving oral health and overall health in the United States. The articles provide a snapshot of why oral health needs to be elevated as a policy priority by being integrated into discussions and policy decisions about health. Addressing the social, behavioral, and environmental determinants of health as part of oral health care offers a new approach to prevention and treatment.