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ICAAP-lets Update - Aug. 30, 2017


August 30, 2017
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ICAAP
ICAAP has opened registration for the 8th Annual ABC Conference, “Lives in the Balance: Caring for Children with Special Needs, Their Families, Their Communities, and Ourselves in These Precarious Times,” to be held on Friday, November 17 at the Moraine Business and Conference Center in Palos Hills, IL. Below are the Top 5 reasons to attend this conference.
  1. TIMELY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
    ICAAP takes current research and news and turns it into useful information for our work. Many of you are now familiar with the science of adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, and the impact of social determinants on health on children, families and communities. At the same time, many of you are also coming to terms with this knowledge and the challenge of caring for these children, families, and communities in the face of state budget cuts, delayed payments, lack of knowledge/access to resources, and increasing caseloads. We have heard many child-serving providers from multiple different systems say they are overwhelmed, and it is impacting their ability, as those who serve the community, to be empathetic and emotionally effective in their work.

    Experts in the field of primary and specialty care pediatrics, public health, nursing, social services, and others will deliver valuable information about navigating the current realities of service delivery in Illinois, advocating for those we serve, and professional self-care, family self-care, and community self-care in order to enable providers across many disciplines to recognize and address these realities when caring for children and families with special healthcare needs, including those impacted by trauma and adversity.
  2. BREAK OUT OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL SILO
    Learn from and share information with other professionals and speakers representing multiple child-serving systems. The ABC Conference is a unique opportunity for all providers who work with children and families to learn the same information at the same time. Approximately 250 attendees are expected and will include health care providers, child care providers, teachers, early intervention providers, public health experts, and many more. Take advantage of our ample networking time to begin collaborating with providers across systems in order to best serve the children and families in your communities.
  3. HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
    The ABC Conferences have a reputation for offering high-quality, current, and relevant educational topics. The conference has been approved for multiple types of continuing education credit, including credits for clinical staff (MD/DO, NP, PA, RN, MA, LCSW, LCPC, OT, PT, and more) as well as community providers (educators, early care and education providers, and more). View the conference brochure for the full list of credit designations. Discounted rates are available for groups, so bring your whole office!
  4. GENEROUS AND INFORMED EXHIBITORS
    Exhibitors tell us that they appreciate the energy of this conference and look forward to the opportunity to network. The ABC Conference will feature a wide array of exhibitors including for-profit and non-profit organizations. Learn about the various services and products they offer and pick up some great resources to take back to your organizations. Plus, if you visit every exhibit table you will be entered in a raffle for a chance to win a $25, $50, or $100 Amazon gift card - perfect timing for the holidays!
  5. CONVENIENTLY LOCATED, PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER
    Past conference participants have consistently commented on the high quality of the ABC Conference venue. Moraine Business and Conference Center is a professional and modern conference center conveniently located on the Moraine Valley Community College Campus in Palos Hills, IL, less than 30 minutes from Interstates 55, 294 and 80. The conference center offers ample and complimentary parking space, private and comfortable facilities for nursing mothers, and ample seating outside of the conference rooms for those who need to send a quick email or make a phone call.
Registration for the conference is open. For more information about session descriptions, continuing education designations, cost, and registration, see the conference brochure, visit http://illinoisaap.org/conferences/abc/, or contact Elise Groenewegen at egroenewegen@illinoisaap.com.

*The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics is accredited by the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


 
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Illinois Poison Center
Annually, the Illinois Poison Center (IPC) handles almost 80,000 exposure and information cases (27-30% from healthcare providers). Of those calls nearly half involve poisoning exposures in children 5 years and under. Medical professionals throughout Illinois turn to the IPC for specialized consultation services in the management of poisoned patients. In fact, healthcare professionals called the IPC on 23,947 poisoning cases in 2016 alone. Cases originating from acute care hospitals have increased over 50 percent in the past decade.

If you are interested in sharing poison prevention education with your patients/community, visit the website. Complete the free, short online course and receive educational/presentation materials any time you want to download and/or order (stickers, magnets, children’s activity sheets, posters, etc.). Also, don’t forget to take a few minutes to check out IPC’s free “My Child Ate…” resource center and blog.

For questions and/or comments, please contact Vickie Dance at vdance@team-iha.org or 312/906-6125.
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ScienceDaily
A new national poll suggests that parents may know what vaccines their children need to enter school but less sure about high school immunization requirements. National vaccination rates are below public health targets for certain adolescent vaccines; “only one third of teens have received the second dose of meningitis vaccines by age 17.” Yet, more than 90 percent of parents reported their teen(s) having received all vaccines recommend according to their age. This study suggests, “there is a clear need for providers to be more proactive for their teen patients."

Click here to read more on the study and results.
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ProActive Kids
ProActive Kids is a health promotion and education program offered free of charge (no insurance required) to children ages 8-14. The program is comprehensive and all-inclusive, and treats the whole child, physically, nutritionally and emotionally. ProActive Kids is built around the stability and commitment of family. This is not a prevention program, but a data-driven, results-oriented intervention program. 71.6% of participants lower their BMI, and 75% lower their body fat. Click here for outcomes data. The program goals include:
  1. Increase muscle mass and decrease body fat, weight and BMI
  2. Create healthier habits in food selection, cooking and eating through nutrition education
  3. Build confidence and self-esteem, increase communication skills, and learn coping skills.
Programs will be offered beginning September 18 at: Presence Saints Mary Elizabeth Medical Center - Nazareth Family Center in Chicago, Lombard Commons Lombard Park District, an elementary school in Oak Lawn, and at Edward Health and Fitness Center in Woodridge. It is preferable that patients register themselves at www.proactivekids.org. Interested in bringing a ProActive Kids program to your community? Learn more by calling 630/681-1558 or going to www.proactivekids.org.
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ICAAP
Two recorded webinars on the health effects of climate change are now available on ICAAP’s eLearning platform. The first webinar focuses on climate change’s impact on air quality, respiratory health, and heat-related illnesses and the second discusses climate change’s impact on vector borne illnesses, extreme weather events, and mental health. The webinars were presented by Samuel Dorevitch, MD, MPH, and Elena Grossman, MPH, with the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Project, University of Illinois at Chicago, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health. Create an account to access the materials.

*The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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ICAAP
ICAAP's Child Development Initiatives team will host a free webinar for Illinois Health Connect this on Thursday, August 31st, from 12-1pm. This session, titled “It’s Not Rocket Science, It’s Brain Science,” will explore lessons learned from the field of neurobiology research, specifically the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study, intergenerational trauma, toxic stress, and the implications this has for child cognitive development, including behavior and learning ability, and overall health and well-being across the lifespan. Registration is free and open to all. For more information, click here.

 
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Chicago Tribune
The boxes stacked in the living room held all the things Joshua Dixon thought he would need in a dormitory. Bedsheets and a matching comforter. Bluetooth speakers, a computer printer and, most important, photos of his younger self. When the 18-year-old is hundreds of miles away at Maine College of Art in Portland, he'll use the pictures to remember — and to explain to new friends — exactly how far he's come.  READ MORE

 
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HealthDay News
When a child has a serious reaction to a vaccine, the chances of it happening again are slim, a new analysis suggests. The review, of 29 studies, found that severe vaccine reactions recurred rarely, if ever, when a child received the same vaccine again, or one with similar ingredients. Those reactions included seizures and a potentially dangerous allergic response called anaphylaxis.  READ MORE
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News-Medical.net
Even if measles infection incidence has decreased by at least 90 perecnt all over the world since the introduction of the vaccine, measles is still one of the major causes of death in children among vaccine-preventable diseases. Regular measles epidemics are reported in developing countries and recurrent episodic outbreaks occur in the developed world.  READ MORE
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The Washington Post
Just before Christmas 2015, child psychiatrist Daniel Nelson noticed an unusual number of suicidal kids in the hospital emergency room. A 14-year-old girl with a parent addicted to opioids tried to choke herself with a seat belt. A 12-year-old transgender child hurt himself after being bullied. And a steady stream of kids arrived from the city’s west side, telling him they knew other kids — at school, in their neighborhoods — who had also tried to die.  READ MORE

 
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EurekAlert!
Despite being at an increased risk for cancers associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV), the first comprehensive national survey found that HPV vaccination rates for childhood cancer survivors lag well behind the national average and that health care providers often fail to recommend the vaccine. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Alabama at Birmingham led the study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.  READ MORE
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Infectious Diseases in Children
The use of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, a probiotic, is unable to prevent asthma or eczema in children at two years of age when used in the first 6 months of life. “On the basis of the hygiene hypothesis, which suggests that the absence of infectious exposure at a critical point in immune system development could lead to greater risk of allergic diseases, it is thought that probiotic exposure could theoretically affect immune system development and reduce the subsequent risk for the development of allergic disease,” Michael D. Cabana, M.D., MPH, from the departments of pediatrics, epidemiology and biostatistics, and the Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues wrote.  READ MORE
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Medical News Today
Survival of preterm babies has increased worldwide. Recent studies have focused on outcomes of extremely preterm children (born at 22-26 weeks' gestation), but outcomes of children born very and moderately preterm (between 27 and 34 weeks' gestation) have rarely been reported. It is therefore a challenge for doctors to identify children most at risk of later developmental delay.  READ MORE
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The Conversation
Before babies start saying words, it is hard for parents to know whether their little one actually understands the things that they say to them. Many parenting magazines and books recommend speaking to children even before parents think their babies can understand what they’re saying — and sometimes even before they’re born — because it helps babies to recognize voices and begin to learn about language. You may wonder, though, if a baby has no idea what is being spoken to them, does it really matter what or how it is said?  READ MORE

 
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