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A Model Aquatic Health Code CDC #survey is still open for public health officials working on public aquatic venue safety, regulation, and inspection, with any level of MAHC experience. Your responses will help the CDC shape the MAHC into a better resource for state, territorial, local, and tribal public health partners. https://lnkd.in/e-RX-n82 Survey closes today!

HUD's Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH) has published a request for information about the idea of moving a significant portion of the office's lead hazard reduction grants to a formula funding approach. The National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition (NSHHC) is hosting three collaborative discussion sessions to provide space for their members and others, including state and local health departments, to consider HUD's new proposal. The sessions will provide a platform for discussion of HUD's proposal, the questions in the request for information, and how it may affect communities. If you have any interest or questions about the formula funding proposal, we strongly encourage you to attend one of the sessions! To get registration information on the sessions (first of which starts Friday, October 18), go to https://lnkd.in/eUdveEJM Background: OLHCHH currently awards grants using a competitive process where communities submit applications following a notice of funding opportunity. In the latest budget request that HUD submitted to Congress, OLHCHH requested that Congress allow them to award 80% of lead hazard reduction funds (and corresponding healthy homes supplemental funds) using a formula. This means that communities would not have to submit a competitive application – funding would simply go to those that qualify. 20% of the funding would remain competitive grants. Congress has not yet given HUD the approval to do this. While waiting, OLHCHH published the request for information to hear feedback from relevant parties about the idea and how they should design the program. Comments are due on November 15, 2024.

LHDs, secure your spot on our food safety #mentorship program! Just 1 month left to get your application in for the NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model Grant Program. The grant portal closes November 20. Apply today at neha.org/retail-grants

#WebinarAlert: Join NACCHO and CredibleMind tomorrow, October 16 at 2:00 PM EST for an insightful webinar exploring the transformative impact of community screening and triage of #MentalHealth and substance use disorders and its impact on #PublicHealth. REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/gYXXY4Sj

If there’s somethin' strange in the neighborhood, you call the Ghostbusters. But who do you call if there's flooding? A🥵day? Power outage? It quickly becomes less obvious, especially if English isn’t your first language. Natick/Framingham LHD take next steps: https://lnkd.in/efCFvkRS

Public health is on the ballot! Check out the PHCC's Get Out The Vote: Customizable Social Media Graphics The upcoming election is consequential for our field and our communities. From education to the economy, several factors impact a person's health—and they're all on the ballot. Download the "Get Out The Vote" customizable social media graphics to connect voting and public health in your communities and increase voter turnout this November: bit.ly/4dHkkz1 #PublicHealth #CivicHealth

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Behavioral Health Training Institute for Health Officials program. Up to 20 health officials will be selected to participate in the tenth cohort of this engaging 7-month professional development initiative providing them with direct access to training and technical assistance opportunities to advance mental health and substance use prevention efforts across the country. Included in this initiative is freeaccess to the National Council’s 2025 Conference in Philadelphia, PA with tailored conference programming for health officials. Applications are due by 11:59pm EDT on Friday, November 8, 2024, and may be accessed here: bit.ly/4eZlkzD

NACCHO CEO Lori Freeman shares an open letter to Local Health Departments impacted by recent hurricanes. https://ow.ly/o8E450TJSE2

Stay tuned for episode 2! Missed the pilot of our #foodsafety podcast miniseries? Catch up on our conversation with Amanda Anderson, Pima County Health Department, AZ at https://lnkd.in/eTvnJccD

Out today! #CSTE and the Big Cities Health Coalition ’s 2024 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment. The reports outline the unmet applied epidemiology workforce and capacity needs across the U.S. within state, territorial, and big cities health departments. The ability of the U.S. public health system to protect us from current and emerging health threats is at stake. The capacity to deliver essential epidemiology public health services for the U.S. has declined — and is in danger of declining further due to lack of sustained federal funding, especially with the end of COVID-19 funding. Read the report here: bit.ly/3XSbd8N. #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #CSTE #BCHC