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2015
- An Oil Spill Science Seminar on Healthy Gulf Seafood will occur on November 18, 2015 and discuss seafood safety. For further information, please see the following announcement:
 Science Seminar - seafood.pdf
- The Community Health Workers Training Project (CHWTP) completed their second session of Advanced Training for Community Health Workers in the Prevention and Management of Chronic Diseases. This was a 5-day training held in New Orleans, LA for 24 participants from around the GRHOP area. Photos of the session are available on CHWTP's Facebook page:
- A press release regarding the Primary Care Capacity Project (PCCP)-funded Mississippi Public Health Information Network (MS-HIN) recently received local media coverage. Please see the press release at: Final GRHOP PCCP Press Release.pdf
- The Community Health Worker Training Project will host CHW Training Sessions on August 2-14, 2015 at the Mobile Marriott, 3101 Airport Blvd., Mobile, AL 36606. Please see the PDF below for the training schedule.
CHW Brief Training Schedule Aug2015.pdf
- The Environmental Health Capacity and Literacy Project will convene a live Informational Webinar regarding the Community Health Worker Placement Program on May 6, 2015 that will be recorded and available for those who cannot attend in person. A link to the Webinar is as follows: http://connect8.caeph.tulane.edu/r502k09kg6f/.
Live Webinar: May 6, 2015, 10-11 am (CST); please see the PDF below for the Webinar agenda.
Tulane CHW placement informational Webinar agenda 05-06-15.pdf
Deadline for scope of work: June 1, 2015
Award decisions announced: July 1, 2015
Earliest anticipated start date: September 1, 2015
Anticipated end date: August 31, 2017
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- The Community Health Workers Training Project trained 26 Peer Health Advocates (PHAs) from Mississippi and Louisiana in March 2014. On August 10-13, 2014, the CHWTP will conduct a PHA training in New Orleans for volunteers from the following Louisiana parishes: Orleans, St. Bernard, Lafourche, Jefferson, Plaquemines, Terrebonne, and Cameron. Applications are due July 1, 2014. Click here for more details.
Alliance Institute, in conjunction with VIET (Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training), held a Community Health Fair at Mary Queen of Vietnam Church on May 17, 2014. Additional community involvement meetings will be scheduled in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida in the coming months. For more information about VIET, please visit vietno.org. Dr. Langhinrichsen-Rohling of the Mental and Behavioral Health Capacity Project for Alabama won the “Outstanding Poster Award” for the Restoration Category at the 2014 International Oil Spill Conference. Her poster can be viewed here. The 2014 International Oil Spill Conference, held in Savannah, GA on May 5-8, 2014, featured a public health session chaired by Dr. Ayanna V. Buckner and comprised of four GRHOP-led presentations.
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Four abstracts describing the GRHOP were presented at the 2014 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference held in Mobile, AL on January 26-29.
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On November 15, 2013, Alliance Institute held a symposium in New Orleans, LA called “The Affordable Care Act and Access to Health Care Along the Gulf Coast.” The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, and national health care reform experts joined Alliance for a discussion about how implementation of the Affordable Care Act impacts Gulf State communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
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