MCH Alert Weekly Newsletter: October 5, 2012

• Brief Highlights Need to Increase Young Adults' Fertility-Awareness Knowledge
• Resource Center Releases Guide on Child Passenger Safety
• Fact Sheet Explores Relationships and Living Arrangements Among Adolescents Following Birth
• Monograph Explores New Dental Office Practice Paradigms
• Article Evaluates a Parent-Led Developmental Disabilities Curriculum for Residents
• Study Characterizes Parenting Aggravation in Immigrant Families
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New Technologies Initiative: The MCH Library is researching and pilot testing new technologies that have applications in public health settings.

• New Media Primer for Health Professionals
• Social Media: Twitter | Facebook | RSS
• Customized/advanced database searching
• Presentations on Social Media and Technology

Designing More Effective Title V MCH/Medicaid Interagency Agreements: Technical Assistance Opportunity for State Programs.

New technical assistance program available to assist States in drafting more effective IAAs.  Read More...

News from the Field

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision effective August 1, 2012 requires free preventive services for women:

• Department of Health and Human Servcies news release
• AMCHP news release
• AMCHP fact sheets

Help youth showcase ways they are ‘being more than a bystander.’ Enter Bullying Challenge by Oct 14!

New from the Library

• Prematurity and Preterm Birth Resouce Brief. August 2012
• Nutrition in Children and Adolescents. Knowledge Path. Family Resource Brief. School Resource Brief. September 2012.
• Food Marketing. Resource Brief. September 2012.
• Food Safety. Resource Brief. September 2012.
• Food Security and Nutrition Assistance Program. Resource Brief. September 2012.
• Nutrition in Child Care. Resource Brief. September 2012.
• Community Services Locator. Knowledge Path. May 2012.
• Oral Health. Knowledge Path. March 2012.
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