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Posted by Miles Dietz-Castel on June 15th, 2018
Posted in: Consumer Health, Funding, News from the Region, Success Stories
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The Division of Child and Community Health, part of the University of Iowa Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, partnered with the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to offer family leadership training to parents or primary caregivers of children or youth with special health care needs between September 2017 and May 2018. The Iowa Family Leadership Training was delivered in fall 2017 in four in-person sessions organized around the Maternal and Child Health Leadership Competencies (https://mchb.hrsa.gov/training/leadership-00.asp). These trainees developed a cohort of 15 trainees who created Community Services Projects having impact the community or systems level. In order to reach underserved families without access to flexible schedules and adequate childcare and transportation to attend the fall training, a two-hour version of the fall training was presented in April 2018 in Ottumwa, Dubuque, Oelwein, Fort Dodge, and Sioux City, Iowa. In both formats, National Library of Medicine resources were presented to trainees, who reported their plans to use the resources and make them available to peers in their communities.
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