·         Historical Publications from the U.S. Children’s Bureau :  The  Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University has posted approximately 450 documents published by the U.S. Children’s Bureau between the years of 1912, when the Children’s Bureau was established, and 1969, when the Bureau’s functions were divided up among several agencies. These publications, available electronically for the first time, give an historical perspective on such topics as child health, infant mortality, child labor and pubic health services for mothers and children, including services for children with physical and cognitive disabilities. This collection is available at http://www.mchlibrary.info/history/childrensbureau.html. 

In addition to this historical collection, the MCH Library provides up-to-date information on MCH research and publications in its MCH Alert, a weekly electronic newsletter available at no charge. The library also offers access to state-of-the-art distance-learning curricula on well-child care and the Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Program (EPSDT), oral health, healthy mental development and other topics. These resources can be found at http://www.mchlibrary.info.

·         National Sudden Infant Death Resource Center:  Georgetown University has been awarded a three-year cooperative agreement for the National Sudden Infant Death Resource Center. The center, co-located with the MCH Library at the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, provides access to the latest professional and consumer information, including research, training materials, and sources of help for families affected by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, miscarriage, stillbirth and other infant death.  The Web site for the Center is located at http://www.sidscenter.org. The toll free information line is (866) 866-7437.

·         mch leadership  skills development series web site now available:  The Women's and Childrens's Health Policy Center is pleased to announce the availability of the MCH Leadership Skills Development Series at www.jhsph.edu/wchpc/MCHLDS.  This set of leadership skills training modules allows users to implement their own leadership skills training programs, bringing concepts to life in an MCH context through video, interactive group discussion questions and exercises, case study, and individual self-reflection and planning exercises.  Three modules are available online now:  1)Tapping into your leadership potential; 2) Creating clarity and shared vision; and 3) Building and supporting teams.  A fourth module on negotiation and conflict resolution will be available in the spring. 

·         adding TB content to multidisciplinary curricula:  The University of Michigan School of Nursing has a grant to create free TB educational products for inclusion in health professional training programs.  These products are suitable for BSN, Advance Practice Nursing, Medical, Public Health, PA, Respiratory, and other health professional training programs.  The products include PowerPoint presentations, case studies, x-rays, and other media products, and are available on the Web portal of the National Tuberculosis Curriculum Consortium at http://ntcc.ucsd.edu/.  A quick and easy registration process is required to access the products, which are all free.

·         RED CROSS AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING:  Sisters Nancy Gilien and Anna Gentile won the Lucille Westbrook prize for local history for their paper The Introduction of Public Health Nursing to Pope County, Arkansas: the Pioneering Work of Celeste Campbell, Red Cross Public Health Nurse.  The paper explores the role of the nurse leaders of the American Red Cross in trying to bring universal health care to all through public health nursing.  At its height, over 1,200 communities were served by the Red Cross.  The paper is under consideration for publication in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.  For more information, contact Nancy Gilien at ngilien@sbcglobal.net or (707) 253-7447.

·         CULTURE AND HEALTH LITERACY MODULE:  Inequalities in the generation, manipulation and distribution of health information, and the capacity to act on health information, are associated with health disparities.  Dr. Rhonda Jones-Webb and colleagues have developed an online training module on health literacy for public health professionals, students, health journalists and others.  Its purpose is to define health literacy, identify health information gaps among social groups, and share strategies to improve health literacy.  The module is free and can offer 1.0 continuing education contact hours.  Register online at www.cpheo.sph.umn.edu/mclph/healthlit.  The module was developed with resources from two HRSA-funded centers at the University of Minnesota:  the Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health and the University of Minnesota Midwest Center for Life-Long Learning in Public Health.