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Think Cultural Health
Think Cultural Health, a website sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care. You may access free online courses accredited for continuing education credit as well as supplementary tools to help you and your organization promote respectful, understandable, and effective care to your increasingly diverse patients.
Bringing Awareness to Shift Work Disorder During Men's Health Month
In CFHC's interview with the Vice President of Men's Health Network, Scott T. Williams, Shift Work Disorder was highlighted as a health concern to bring awareness to during Men's Health Month. What is Shift Work Disorder? Who is primarily affected by it?
The Wake-Up Squad, an organization leading the fight against Shift Work Disorder, sheds light.
To learn more about Shift Work Disorder, visit The Wake-Up Squad's website at www.thewakeupsquad.com.
Why Recommend SafeandEffective.org to Your Clients?
SafeandEffective.org offers accurate and up-to-date information on Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs). The website’s main goal is to inform viewers that LARCs are not only safe but also extremely effective. By urging viewers to think about their life goals, SafeandEffective.org puts the use of birth control in to perspective as it relates to planning for the future.
The website is not only interactive but also easy-to-read. Healthcare professionals can utilize the website in two ways:
• Refer clients to the website as a resource to learn more information on The Copper T IUD, Hormone IUD and The Implant
• Educate themselves and their staff on LARCs to better inform clients
A providers ability to share accurate information on LARCs will help their client make an informed decision on whether to use a long acting reversible contraceptive. SafeandEffective.org is a great resource for health care professionals to learn how to speak with their clients about LARCs as well as a rich resource for clients to gain additional information on which method is right for them.
Check out SafeandEffective.org today!
April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
The goal of the National Sexual Assault Awareness Month is to raise public awareness about sexual violence and to educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence. Each day, people witness a continuum of behaviors that range from being respectful and safe, to sexually abusive and violent. The April 2011 Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign focuses on everyone speaking up to prevent sexual violence in our neighborhoods, communities, workplaces and schools. Here are some helpful Tips for Health Care Professionals.
Talking With Your Teen is Important
Talking with teens about sex can be a difficult subject to undertake. However, just because the topic is hard to approach does not mean the conversation should not happen! California Family Health Council, Inc. has dedicated an entire website for parents and providers on how to start the conversation and keep it going. Also featured is key information about healthy relationships and where to go for more information about STDs, and birth control.
Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. There are many things you can do as a health care provider to promote this important topic among your clients. You can go to National Resource Center for Teen Dating Violence Awareness to find out ways to help break the cycle of abuse in our communities. Share the 10 Warning Signs of Abuse with adult and teen clients!
Reproductive Life Planning
Check out the Reproductive Life Plan on TeenSource.org. It can definitely help your clients think through what is really important to them. Entitled "My Health, My Plan, My Future" you can share it with your teen clients.
January is Cervical Health Awareness Month
Join the Global Initiative Against HPV and Cervical Cancer. As a health care professional, you can do a lot. As part of a nation-wide education effort during Cervical Health Awareness month, you can help out in three ways:
- Distribute the NCCC's cervical cancer/HPV press release to state and local media.
- Ask your local radio stations to announce NCCC's Public Service Announcements on cervical cancer and HPV.
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Request your local newspapers and magazines to run NCCC's print PSA's.
To receive the press release and the print and radio PSAs, contact the National Cervical Cancer Coalition at 818-992-4242 or send an email to rbiety@nccc-online.org.
Working together we can make a difference!
Helping Clients Find an HIV Testing Site
There's an easy way for you, as a health care professional, to refer your clients for HIV testing, if your site does not provide it. Simply go to CDC's National HIV and STD Testing Resources website and type in your client's zip code. You can find the nearest HIV testing site. Before making a referral, you should, of course, assure that the testing site is reputable and provides appropriate counseling support for clients.
Innovative Multi-lingual AIDS prevention curricula now available
Research shows that young people's attitudes about gender and human rights affect their risk of HIV infection, unintended pregnancy, and intimate partner violence. Education can change people's attitudes. But programs and educators need practical tools for integrating gender and rights issues into their curricula.
To help sex/HIV education programs incorporate gender and rights issues into their curricula, the Population Council has published an exciting new resource--It's All One Curriculum. Highlighting guidelines and engaging activities for teens all over the world, this resource is available in English and Spanish at no cost at www.itsallone.org. A French translation will also be available soon! A limited number of hard copies are available at no cost for schools and non-profit organizations who work with adolescents.
