A new bibliography on Bullying and a new organization resource list on Maternal Morbidity and Mortality have been posted. The bibliography complements our knowledge path on Adolescent Violence Prevention, and the resource list extends the information in the bibliography, organization list, and knowledge path on Infant Mortality. Resources on numerous other MCH topics are available as well.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
This electronic resource guide offers a selection of current, high-quality resources that analyze data, describe public health campaigns and other prevention programs, and report on research aimed at identifying causes and promising intervention strategies.

Mental Health in Children and Adolescents
This electronic resource guide offers a selection of recent, high-quality resources that address the goals outlined in the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health report and tap into the health, education, social services, and juvenile justice literature.

Asthma in Children and Adolescents
This electronic resource guide points to recent, high-quality resources about this chronic illness; its management; and its impact on homes, schools, and communities. The path also identifies tools for staying abreast of new developments in asthma care and conducting further research.

Knowledge paths on other MCH topics are available.

The Library receives electronic copies of MCHB Projects final reports. They are cataloged into MCHLine^® and posted on this site on the Final Reports page.

The MCH Library has won a merit award from the World Wide Web Health Awards. This program, organized by the Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), recognizes the best health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals with the goal of providing a "seal of quality" for electronic health information.

The MCH Library has received an APEX Award for publication excellence in the category New Web and Intranet Sites. APEX is an awards competition providing recognition for outstanding publications. The competition is sponsored by the editors of Writing That Works: The Business Communications Report by Communications Concepts, Inc.

NATIONAL MATERNAL AND CHILD ORAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER GRANT AWARDED TO GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute has been awarded $1.75 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau to continue the work of the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (NMCOHRC) for 5 more years.

MCHB established NMCOHRC in 1996 at Georgetown University. Since its inception, the resource center has provided broad access to timely and relevant information and materials for health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, and others and has developed a track record of providing high-quality services. The resource center is well prepared to continue assisting the maternal and child health community in its efforts to improve the oral health status of infants, children, adolescents, and families.

Visit the NMCOHRC Web site.

NEW MCH LIBRARY WEB SITE

The MCH Library at NCEMCH has posted a new Web site to improve access to a wide variety of electronic resources on maternal and child health. The site brings together the MCH Alert, knowledge paths, NCEMCH publications, databases, bibliographies, and other materials developed for health professionals, families, and consumers.

LIBRARY TOUR

This tour gives you an overview of the resources on the MCH Library site. Available in HTML or Powerpoint download.

Further information about the cooperative agreement that funds the MCH Library is provided in this press release.

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