The EMSC National Resource Center released last week "A Toolkit for EMSC Family Representatives." The toolkit targets new Family Advisory Network (FAN) representatives and serves as their official EMSC training module.

The article "EMSC Targeted Issues Projects Leading Pediatric Prehospital Research," written by the EMSC National Resource Center's (NRC) Anthony Gilchrest, MPA, EMT-P, and Sametria McCammon, MSPH, was published in the May 28, 2016, issue of EMS World. The article highlights EMSC Targeted Issues research projects and status.

Margo Knefelkamp joins Indiana EMSC as the new program and grants manager. Margo comes to EMSC from the Indiana State Department of Health where she spent the last two years as manager for the State Office of Rural Health.

EMSC State Partnership Regionalization of Care (SPROC) Grantees Robert Sapien, MD, MMM, and James Marcin, MD, MPH, are both contributing authors on the recently released Children's Health Fund (CHF) white paper "15 Million Kids in Health Care Deserts: Can Telehealth Make a Difference?"

The Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Program's commitment to developing regionalized systems of pediatric care continues with the recent release of three State Partnership Regionalization of Care (SPROC) Grant awards. The goal of the SPROC program is to develop systems of care that increase access to emergency medical services for children in United States rural, territorial, insular and/or tribal communities.

Connecticut EMSC is reaching out to community providers with a pediatric Tip of the Week."

The Alabama Department of Public Health, Office of EMS will join in the celebration of National EMSC Day on May 18

The  Journal of Trauma Nursing  recently published an article that examines the evaluation, revision, and implementation of a new guideline for screening for physical abuse and protection of patients (see "Increased Screening for Child Physical Abuse in Emergency Departments in a Regional Trauma System: Response to a Sentinel Event," authored by Wilkins GG, Ball J, Mann NC, et a l .) The article is based on the work of Former EMSC Targeted Issue Grantee J. Wayne Meredith, MD.

The April 2016 issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness features an article by Former EMSC Targeted Issue Grantee Mark Cicero, MD. This article compares the accuracy of three pediatric disaster triage strategies (Smart, JumpSTART, and clinical decision-making).

The EMSC Program is partnering with the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Emergency Nurses Association to celebrate EMS for Children Day 2016. The daylong celebration will be held the Wednesday of EMS Week (May 15-21).