During COVID-19, staff from across the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) have been reassigned to help with the public health response. The featured stories of the COVID-19 Stories of Community Outreach and Partnership highlight efforts of MDH staff in collaboration with community partners during the COVID-19 response. In Partnering with the LGBTQ+ Community: Celebrating Pride […]
Category: Resources
Information About the Infant Formula Supply Shortage
Communities nationwide are experiencing infant formula shortages after a large recall in February. This shortage has left many parents and caregivers concerned about how they will feed their babies. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has created a tip sheet for caregivers struggling to find formula for infants or medically fragile children. Key information from […]
New Mental Health Resource Guide
As Mental Health Awareness Month draws to a close, the Public Health Communications Collaborative has developed a new directory of resources to help you communicate about this important public health issue all year. These spotlights resources are guides for public health and health professionals, parents and caregivers, employers and employees, youth, and anyone who is looking for […]
Resources for Talking to Your Children
President Nancy Hill of the Society for Research in Child Development shared the following statement on the recent mass murders along with helpful resources: “We are heartbroken and stunned. Although we haven’t fully mourned or buried our brothers and sisters who were ruthlessly murdered in Buffalo, we are faced with another tragic shooting, this time […]
CDC Reports COVID-19 Was Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S.
Recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series reports CDC’s National Vital Statistics System to look at death rates in the United States and find that differences in death rates still remain between certain racial and ethnic minority groups. The first report provides an overview of provisional U.S. mortality data for 2021, including a comparison […]
New Evaluation Tool in Child Welfare
The Youth Connections Scale (YCS) is a tool to be used by professional to guide case planning and strengthen youth connections and relational permanence. YCS was developed in order to fill a need in child welfare: To evaluate and measure the increased efforts of agencies to improve the relational permanence of youth in foster care. […]
New Report on National Survey of Children’s Health
A new report on children’s mental health used 2016-2019 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) data and eight other sources to describe mental health and mental disorders in children during 2013–2019. This report is a collaboration between MCHB and other federal agencies. The report found that poor mental health among children was a substantial public […]
The Intersection of Climate Change and Maternal and Child Health:
Centering Global Issues and Climate Justice Climate change threatens all MCH programs across the globe. AMCHP and their partners must analyze how the globe arrived to the crisis point and discover how to mitigate against the challenges. AMCHP’s Global Health Initiative held a webinar in November, titled “The Intersection of Climate Change and Maternal and […]
Minnesota Thrives 2022 Campaign
Minnesota Thrives is a collectively sourced and interactive database of current Minnesota based efforts that promote mental well-being and inclusive, thriving communities. Minnesota Thrives is intended to help Minnesota communities to: 1) Create a comprehensive picture of current mental well-being strategies, locally and statewide, to inform and guide planning efforts 2) Actively connect and learn […]
Translated Materials on Dental Health
The Minnesota Oral Health Project has translated materials in Hmong, Karen, Lao, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Somali, and Vietnamese. These high quality translations may be printed or shared with patients electronically. You can assist your clients in saving the document you choose to their smartphone. Simply navigate to CrushCavities.com on your patient’s smartphone. Click on All […]
FAQ Video Series on Pregnancy, Fertility, and the COVID-19 Vaccines
OB-GYNs, a nurse, and midwife affirm the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy and debunk myths about the impact on fertility in 40+ new FAQ videos from The Conversation / La Conversación. The experts in these videos address common questions and concerns about the COVID-19 vaccines before, during and after pregnancy, including: Is it […]
New guide available to adapt sexual health and goal-setting curricula to different youth populations
Child Trends researchers have developed a guide that enables facilitators of the El Camino program—an adolescent sexual health program for Latino teens—to better serve their target youth populations through curriculum adaptations while still retaining the core components of the curriculum. The El Camino Adaptation Guide provides facilitators and curriculum implementers with the tools and resources to guide them in […]
Strengthening Child Care and Early Education after COVID-19
A new research, evaluation, and data agenda aims to help child care and early education leaders consider how COVID-19 has and will impact children, families, programs, and policies. The agenda gives leaders tools they can use to begin addressing racial inequities, developing new projects and data initiatives, and more. The context for child care and early education (CCEE) changed […]
Creative Arts and Body-Based Approaches for Group Work with Survivors of Trauma
Evidence is growing that creative arts and body-based approaches have a significant part to play in helping persons cope with the effects of trauma. Backed by significant neurological evidence on how trauma affects the brain and the entire nervous system, creative arts and body-based therapies complement traditional trauma treatments by focusing on not only the mind, […]
UMN Women’s Health Research Conference: Reproductive Justice and Person-Centered Care
The 16th Annual UMN Women’s Health Research Conference was half-day event hosted by Women’s Health Research Program and co-sponsored by the Center for Women in Medicine and Science and Center for Leadership Education in Maternal & Child Public Health. The conference featured plenary panel presentations, panel discussion, and a poster session on women’s health research. […]