Homicides are the third leading cause of death among all people aged 10-34 years in the United States. For survivors, violent injury becomes a major risk factor for subsequent injury with about 35 percent of injured patients suffering a subsequent injury nationally.
Please join us for a presentation and discussion with Rochelle Dicker, M.D., about the successful methods used by the Wraparound Project, a hospital-based violence intervention program to stop the revolving door of violent injuries in San Francisco.
Space is limited. Register online today to reserve your seat. Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues and partners.
"Steps Toward Achieving Birth Equity & Reducing Maternal and Infant Mortality Among Black Women"
"Data-driven Change at the Community Level: Emerging Research on Urban Child Health"
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) is pleased to announce an upcoming DataSpeak program on urban child health. This webinar will focus on socioemotional and environmental health and how three different programs are using data to drive community action and change for children in urban neighborhoods.
Renee D. Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, associate professor of pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine and founding director of the Vital Village Community Engagement Network, will showcase the development and community-focused uses of the Vital Village data dashboard.
Claudia J. Coulton, PhD, Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University and founder and Co-Director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, will present on how the Child Longitudinal Data System was developed and how it has been used to explore the links between housing quality, the foreclosure crisis, and elevated blood lead levels.
Lisa M. Sontag-Padilla, PhD, behavioral and social scientist at the RAND Corporation, will discuss the development of a databook on child socio-emotional health using data from the CANDLE (Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early childhood) study and other data sets on families in Memphis and Shelby counties.
Register for this DataSpeak today!
DataSpeak is a series of online conferences that feature special topics related to MCH data. Each event features speakers who are considered experts in their field. The MCH Epidemiology and Statistics Program, who coordinates these DataSpeak conferences, is dedicated to the goal of helping MCH practitioners on the Federal, State, and local levels to improve their capacity to gather, analyze, and use data for planning and policymaking.