Friday, September 13, 2024
9/13/2024
Through base and enhanced funding from CDC's Essentials for Childhood: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action, the Kansas Essentials for Childhood (KS EfC) and Kansas Power of the Positive, a statewide coalition of diverse partners (government, non-profits, philanthropy, faith-based, and business sectors) aim to prevent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and promote positive childhood experiences (PCEs) through data-driven actions. KS EfC will enhance surveillance infrastructure using key data sources to collect, analyze, and apply ACEs/PCEs and health equity data. This data will inform evidence-based primary prevention strategies at societal and community levels, supporting safe and nurturing relationships for Kansas children. Focus areas include 1) strengthening economic supports for families through family friendly workplaces and 2) promoting protective social norms against violence and adversity through public engagement campaigns. The State Action Plan will be enhanced to support implementation and sustainability of prevention strategies and assure it aligns with CDC's Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Leveraging the Best Available Evidence. Businesses will be recruited to conduct the Family Friendly Workplace Survey which assesses ratings of 19 workplace conditions and planned quality improvement. The Family Friendly Workplace Survey results help employers to understand the priorities of employees with children as well as perceptions about the extent to which the workplace meets those needs. Responses allow employers to prioritize first steps that support employees, build stronger families, and create thriving workplaces. Participating employers receive resources to make improvements on becoming family friendly and are eligible for peer-to-peer mentoring. Employee responses will be analyzed to examine their association with social determinants of health and the impact of family friendly workplaces on reducing disparities. Promoting Social Norms through public education addresses the social and community context domain of the social determinants of health. Connected communities foster better physical and mental health, increased productivity, academic success, and reduced crime and homelessness. Connections Matter and Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) will be targeted to the public health workforce. The Connections Matter curriculum builds trusting relationships, enhances knowledge and skills for information sharing, and promotes resilience against adversity. HOPE, developed by Tuft's Medical Center, focuses on reducing adversity and fostering positive experiences to improve the lives of all children, particularly those exposed to toxic stress. The framework emphasizes healthy relationships, safe environments, social engagement, and emotional growth as foundations for learning and well-being (physically and mentally). The KS EfC will conduct data-to-action activities on an ongoing basis to inform changes or adaptations to existing prevention strategies or selection and implementation of additional prevention strategies. Data will be shared with KS EfC’s multi-sector partnerships and resources to improve ACEs and PCEs surveillance infrastructure and the coordination and implementation of ACEs prevention strategies across the state.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
