Featured resource:

The EMSC Data Center (EDC) has launched a new website! Explore emscDataCenter.org for EMSC data resources, research, pediatric readiness materials, professional development, and more! State Partnership Programs: Want to learn more? Attend the EDC’s upcoming TechTalk: Navigating the New EDC Website, Part I, on June 8.

Resources round-up:

Policy statements:

• AAP: Standards for Levels of Neonatal Care: II, III, and IV

Condition-specific resources:

• PEAK: Agitation - new podcast series episodes available!

Disaster resources:

• AAP: DisasterCast: Pediatric Disaster Checklist

Prehospital resources:

• EMSC: “The Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator (PECC): Where Emergency Care for Kids Begins" webinar recording
• NAEMT: Podcast featuring EMSC Targeted Issues Grantee Marc Cicero, MD
• FICEMS: Statement of Recommendations for Comprehensive EMS Systems to Improve Post-Crash Care

EMSC grantee resources:

• EIIC: State Partnership Grantees: upcoming collaboratives
• EIIC: Understanding PRQC and NPRQI
• EMSC: PPRP Flyer
• EMSC: Town Hall Recording

Other resources:

• EMSC: EMS for Children Day 2023: Thank You
• HHS: Surgeon General Advisory on Youth and Social Media
• NHTSA and NCSL: EMS Legislative Database

Upcoming events, conferences, deadlines:

• FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium - June 5 - 7
• NAEMSE Symposium - Aug. 14-19
• EMSC All-Grantee Meeting - Sept. 11-14
• EMS World Expo - Sept. 18–22
• ENA Conference - Sept. 21-23
• ACEP Scientific Assembly - Oct. 9-12
• AAP National Conference - Oct. 20-24
• ACS TQIP conference: Dec. 1-3

Funding opportunities:

• HRSA Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Notice of Funding Opportunity - deadline is June 12
• HHS Children and Youth Resilience Challenge - deadline is July 7
• DOT "Safe Streets and Roads for All" (SS4A) Notice of Funding Opportunity - deadline is July 10
• PPN Pilot and Emerging Issues Project - deadline is August 31

Other opportunities:

• NAEMT-AAP Pediatric EMS Award nominations - deadline is May 22
• EMSC: Pediatric Readiness Quality Improvement Collaborative - register by June 6
• PPN Pediatric Disaster Science Research Training Program - deadline is July 1

Honors & awards:

• Nancy McGrath, MN, MSN, RN, CPNP, a subject matter expert with the EMSC Innovation & Improvement Center and pioneer in pediatric readiness work, was announced as the recipient of the Emergency Nursing Association’s Pediatric Readiness Improvement Award.
• Manish Shah, MD, MS, co-principal investigator of PECARN’s CHaMP node, received the Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill Educational Mentorship Award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.
• E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, FAEMS, co-principal investigator of PECARN’s CHaMP node, received the Nate Kuppermann PEM Mentorship in Research Award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Research highlights:

• Comparing two definitions of pediatric complexity among children cared for in general and pediatric EDs in a statewide sample - Journal of American College of Emergency Physicians, April 26
• Prehospital and ED Pediatric Readiness for Injured Children: A Statement from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma EMS Committee - The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, May 1
• Availability of Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinators in US Emergency Departments in 2018 - Pediatric Emergency Care, May 1
• Prehospital Recognition and Management of Pediatric Sepsis: A Qualitative Assessment
• Caregiver Perspectives on Including Children in Alternative Emergency Medical Services Disposition Programs: A Qualitative Study - Prehospital Emergency Care, May 5
• Prehospital Management of Pediatric Behavioral Health Emergencies: A Scoping Review - Cureus, May 10
• Undertriage for Children With Caregivers Preferring Languages Other Than English - Pediatrics, May 16

Headline highlights:

1. Youth mental health crisis may be improving, early ER data suggests - CBS News, May 11
2. COVID Public Health Emergency Ends, But For E.R.'s There's Still No "New Normal" - NPR, May 15
3. State renews approval of Franciscan Health ER for pediatrics - Illinois Patch, May 2 & MUSC Health certified ‘Pediatric Ready’ - Lancaster News, May 16 (Facility recognition programs in Illinois and South Carolina EMSC)
4. Celebrate Emergency Medical Services for Children Day - EMS1, May 24 (EMSC Day coverage; similar articles appeared in JEMs & Firehouse)
5. EMS Week 2023: EMS for Children - JEMS, May 24