National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention

The entire National Center staff wishes you and your families a very joyous holiday season.

We want to share this e-newsletter with all your project staff. Please forward email addresses of additional staff members you'd like to receive this newsletter to info@promoteprevent.org

In partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention is pleased to announce a national conference that will bring together the Safe Schools/Healthy Students, Targeted Capacity Expansion: Prevention and Early Intervention and Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities, and Youth Violence Prevention grantees.

Where: Kansas City, Missouri at the Marriott Kansas City
When: April 27-29, 2004
Pre- and post-conference activities are being planned for the 26th and 30th. More information about those activities will follow shortly.

This conference will serve as the 2004 annual grantee conference for all participants. This joint conference offers participants from all programs the opportunity to:

Flight and hotel reservation details will be available soon (please don't book anything until you hear from us) . We have much to learn from each other at this event. See you in Kansas City!

For more information, contact your Technical Assistance Specialist or call

Cultural Competence - many of us know the term, we all strive for it, and a few of us have even studied it. But what does it look like in practice? How does one become culturally competent?

Cultural Competence - what does it look like in practice?
Young Wings Program
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Bayfield, WI

CASEL recently released: Safe and Sound - An Education Leader's Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs
Based on a three-year study funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) in the U.S. Department of Education, Safe and Sound is a comprehensive and inclusive guide to SEL programming. This guide reviews 80 multi-year, sequenced SEL programs, providing a road map for schools and districts that are launching or adding social, emotional, and academic learning programs. To download a free copy of this publication, go to: http://www.casel.org/projects_products/safeandsound.php

Violence in U.S. Public Schools: 2000 School Survey on Crime and Safety presents a preliminary analysis of the 2000 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). The SSOCS surveyed the amount of crime and violence, disciplinary actions, prevention programs and policies, and other school tactics as reported by a nationally representative sample of elementary and secondary school principals.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004314

Rural Mental Health Outreach: Promising Practices in Rural Areas
The Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (CMHS/SAMHSA) recently released Rural Mental Health Outreach: Promising Practices in Rural Areas, which presents best practices for achieving success in mental health outreach. Developed from a joint survey conducted by CMHS and the National Association for Rural Mental Health, this free publication is available online through SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center at http://store.mentalhealth.org/publications/ordering.aspx

Online Database of State School Health Policies
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) has produced a national database of school health policies. Intended for use by educators, policymakers, and others interested in learning and sharing exemplary school health policies, NASBE gathered written policies in key areas of school health, including codes, rules, standards, guidelines, and other means of exercising authority in areas of school health. The database includes federal laws, state policies to facilitate cross-state comparisons, and a glossary of terms and definitions.
http://www.nasbe.org/HealthySchools/States/State_Policy.asp

Programs Component Added to "What Works" Series on Youth Development
Programs for Teens, the latest addition to Child Trends' "What Works" series, provide information on specific types of programs designed to improve child and adolescent development. The new tables summarize research on effective and promising programs for designing, administering, or funding services for children and adolescents. The tables include specific information on academic achievement programs, mentoring programs, civic engagement programs, employment programs, and programs for educationally disadvantaged older adolescents. The tables are available at:
http://www.childtrends.org/what_works/clarkwww/clarkwww_intro.asp

New Evaluation Resource
"Evaluation's Role in Supporting Initiative Sustainability" offers ideas for the roles that evaluation can play in ensuring early and regular discussions about sustainability. Go to http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/pubs/onlinepubs/sustainability/index.html for more information.

New Anti-stigma/Anti-discrimination Resource Launched
A new website has been launched to serve as a central resource for initiatives, programs, publications, and databases addressing discrimination and stigma associated with mental illnesses: http://www.adscenter.org

The Foundation Center is offering a wide range of courses aimed at developing fundraising skills. Course titles include Proposal Writing Seminar, Proposal Budgeting Workshop, Grantseeking on the Web: Hands-On Introductory Training and more. Courses are free and open to the public at one of The Foundation Center's five Learning Center sites (San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Washington D.C.). For course dates and locations, visit http://fdncenter.org/ .

January 2004
Nexus EQ will host its 4th Annual Conference, The Inside Path to Creating and Sustaining Change, January 15-17 in Orlando, Florida. Visit http://nexuseq.com/orlando.html for conference information.

February 2004
The National Crime Prevention Council will hold its 15th Annual Youth Crime Prevention Conference February 14-17 in Arlington, Virginia. This summit will be an opportunity for youth and adult allies to find inspiration, skills, and resources. For registration information, visit http://www.ncpc.org/summit/ .

Clemson University Department of Family and Youth Developmen t will hold the "Strengthening Families, Youth, and Communities Across the Lifespan" conference February 22-25 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Keynote speakers, workshop presenters, and exhibitors will share information and showcase programs and curriculum that focus on families and youth. For registration information, visit http://www.clemson.edu/fyd/sfy.htm .

Click here to view a full listing of Conferences and Events.

A free grant update service is available from the Federal government. Go to http://fedgrants.gov/ApplicantRegistration.html for more information

Title: Youth Violence Prevention through Community-Level Change (CDC-PA 04054)
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: The purpose of this grant program is to evaluate community-level interventions to reduce youth violence.
Award: Approximately $1,000,000 is available to fund two awards.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit and for-profit organizations, governments and their agencies.
Deadline: January 2, 2004 (Letters of Inquiry), February 17, 2004 (Application)
For more information: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/04054.htm

Title: Sociocultural and Community Risk and Protective Factors for Child Maltreatment and Youth Violence
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: The purpose of this grant program is to inform violence prevention efforts through research by testing the extent to which modifiable sociocultural and community risk and protective factors are associated with child maltreatment and early risk factors for youth violence.
Award: $500,000
Eligibility: Any public/private, nonprofit/for profit organizations and governments and their agencies.
Deadline: January 5, 2004 (Letters of Inquiry), February 17, 2004(Application)
For more information: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/04056.htm

Title: Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants
Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Description: SAMHSA Conference Grants are for the purpose of disseminating knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and integrating that knowledge into real-world practice as effectively and efficiently as possible. Grant awards will cover up to 75% of the total direct costs of planned meetings and conferences.
Award: $25,000-$50,000
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.
Deadline: January 10, 2004
For more information: http://samhsa.gov/grants/content/2003/PA03002_conferences.htm .

Title: Medical Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs (MHCSH)
Funder: Dept. of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Programs
Description: This initiative supports the "medical home" component of the President's New Freedom Initiative, which calls for community systems in which every child with a special health care need may have access to a regular, ongoing source of care (i.e. a medical home). The medical home component shall be supported through five undertakings (Priorities) of this grant: (1) a National Resource Center on Medical Home Implementation; (2) Statewide Implementation Grants; (3) Grants to Facilitate Implementation through Community-Based, Primary Care Practices; (4) Capacity-building Grants; and (5) A Cooperative Agreement for Early Identification and Intervention with Children with Autism.
Award: Funds available vary according to Priority areas outlined above.
Eligibility: Any public or private entity is eligible to apply.
Deadline: January 15, 2004
For more information: http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-04-056/Grant.html .

The Grant Opportunities page is updated regularly with new announcements of available public and private grant competitions. Here is just one of the listings you'll find: