The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) plans to award up to 75 grants to rural communities as part of a new Rural Communities Opioid Response (Planning) (RCORP) initiative in FY 18. Successful awardees will receive up to $200,000 for one-year to develop plans to implement opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery interventions designed to reduce opioid overdoses among rural populations. The initiative will focus...

The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a proposal to align and modernize how Medicare payments are tied to the cost and quality of patient care for hundreds of thousands of doctors and other clinicians. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is a first step in implementing certain provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). This legislation – supported by a bipartisan majority and stakeholders such as patient groups and medical a ssociations –...

Hello all, I wanted to raise your awareness of these two great funding opportunities. I believe there a a few groups here that might be perfect ... Communities Addressing Childhood Trauma (ACT) Estimated Funding Level: $3,000,000 per budget period Expected Number of Awards : 7-9 Range of Awards : $325,000 to $400,000 per budget period Anticipated Start Date : 07/01/2016 Period of Performance : Not to exceed five years Budget Period Length: 12 months Application Deadline: April 18, 2016 by 5...

In 2013, there were more than 41,000 deaths as a result of suicide in the U.S.  Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death, claiming more lives each year than death due to motor vehicle crashes. Especially alarming, it is the second leading...

By Andrea Blanch, PhD, Carol Boyer, MA, Mary Blake, CRE   While the term “trauma-informed” is relatively new, the concept shares historical roots with ISTSS. As described in detail by Sandy Bloom, ISTSS grew out of a broad social...

Hello ACEs Connection Friends,   I wanted to invited you to join a Facebook page created to expand access to trauma informed practices, approaches, and communities.  We would love to have you participate.     Join us...

EvaluACTION  is designed for people interested in learning about program evaluation and how to apply it to their work. Evaluation is a process, one dependent on what you’re currently doing and on the direction in which you’d like go....

Dear Colleagues,   The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is announcing the availability of funds for supportive services grants under the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program.   The NOFA contains information concerning...

January 27, 2015 Dear Colleague, A special issue of the Journal of Women’s Health, released on January 22, details how intimate partner violence (IPV) has a profound impact on the health of our nation’s women and girls. Such violence...

  NIH-funded researchers have discovered that an old fear memory is recalled by a separate brain pathway from the one originally used to recall it when it was fresh. Uncovering new pathways for old memories could change scientists’ view of...

Among deployed and non-deployed active duty Veterans who served during the Iraq or Afghanistan wars  between 2001 and 2007, the rate of suicide was greatest the first three years after leaving service, according to a recent study. Compared to the...