Alabama State University News June 9, 2016 ASU Receives $815,000 Grant to Aid Children and Women's Health Care Author: Hazel Scott Alabama State University has received its third, five-year federal grant to help its Maternal and Child Health Pipeline Training Program continue working to improve healthcare for children and mothers from minority populations. *** The College of Health Sciences at Alabama State University recently was awarded an $815,000 federal grant for its Maternal and Child Health Pipeline Training Program (MCHPTP). The grant is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources Services Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. MCHPTP, housed in the college's Center to Advance Rehabilitative Health and Education (CARE), is committed to cultivating current and future healthcare trainees to become better equipped to address health disparities and to improve health care for children and mothers from minority populations. "With this award, ASU will play a key role in contributing to the development of a workforce representative of our society today and partaking in a public health intervention to improve the quality of care for underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged populations of minority women and children," said Dr. Joseph Pete, MCHPTP project director. Trainees in the program will receive a stipend to assist with tuition costs and will be able to earn an 18-credit certificate/minor in maternal and child health. The program will admit 20 students each year. "To date, with the assistance of this federal grant, we have been able to service over 300 students through our activities and/or programming, bringing more awareness to MCH careers," said Catrina Waters, MCHPTP assistant project director. "We have over 75 students who are currently enrolled or have successfully enrolled in graduate or health profession programs or in the MCH workforce." This is ASU's third five-year cycle for the grant, which was received for the first time in 2006. For more information about the program, contact Dr. Joseph Pete at jpete@alasu.edu<mailto:jpete@alasu.edu> or Catrina Waters at crwaters@alasu.edu<mailto:crwaters@alasu.edu>. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-592-4820 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/ Register here http://hbculibraries.org/html/2016meeting-form.html for the October 10,11 Membership Meeting in Atlanta. [Sized Coming Soon]NEW DIGS!!!! The HBCU Library Alliance is relocating to the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library. July 1st is target date for transition. Stay tuned!!! LYRASIS, Inc. 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 150 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.