National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention

C4S Online Course
This week marks Week 3 of our Creating Safe, Successful, and Supportive Schools (C4S) Online Learning Event. The highlight of this week will be Wednesday's TeleRadio Town Meeting. Using a format similar to a call-in radio show, experts, practitioners, and participants will explore how schools can enhance their capacity to promote wellness, improve academic achievement, and prevent substance abuse, violence, and other risk behaviors.

Guest speakers include co-authors David Osher and Kevin Dwyer, as well as Sandy Keenan from Westerly, Rhode Island, and Marianne Moon from Missoula, Montana.

For more information, visit Online Courses and Workshops.

New Resources added to promoteprevent.org
Several new resources have been added to promoteprevent.org in the last month. Four Resource Pages:

To find these resources, click the Resources and Publications tab from the home page and choose Resource Pages or Center Briefs.

Collaborating with SAMHSA's Suicide Prevention Lifeline January, 2005 marked the launch of The Suicide Prevention Lifeline...more

Center Events
March brings you many Center-sponsored meetings and teleconferences. To learn more, visit Center Events.

The National Center is pleased to announce two new Technical Partners to expand the expertise available to you:

The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors is dedicated to serving the needs of the nation's public mental health system. NASMHPD provides technical assistance, policy development, and information dissemination to members who include commissioners/directors of the 55 state and territorial mental health departments.
http://www.nasmhpd.org/

The School Social Work Association of America is dedicated to promoting the profession of School Social Work and the professional development of School Social Workers in order to enhance the educational experience of students and their families.
http://www.sswaa.org/

If you'd like to reach any of our Technical Partners, please contact your Technical Assistance Specialist.

Technical Partner Conference Series - March Events

March 3rd, 3:00pm (EST) Please note - New date and time: DJ Ida, National Asian-American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA)
Dr. Ida will be discussing best practices for adaptation and sustainability for programs targeted to Asian-Pacific Islander communities as well as how best to present findings to the funding community.
Call in number: (888) 737-5834. At the prompt, enter passcode 301648.

March 18th, 1:00pm (EST): Maurice Elias, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
This teleconference will focus on practical solutions to the challenges of integrating and sustaining social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools.
An email announcing open registration will be sent out shortly for this teleconference.

PATHS to Success
Harrisburg , Pennsylvania
Lynn Pascoa and Mavis Kelley
TCE and SS/HS grantees
(http://www.promoteprevent.org/grantees_at_work/
02222005_paths_success.asp)

New Feature
This month's newsletter introduces a new feature - each month the National Center will highlight and discuss an evidence-based intervention (EBI) currently being implemented by grantees. This month, Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) is in the spotlight.

Adapting an Evidence-Based Intervention: Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS)
Lynn Pascoa & Mavis Kelley
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
(http://www.promoteprevent.org/grantees_at_work/ebi_paths.asp)

Racial and ethnic differences in school readiness
The Spring 2005 issue of the Future of Children, School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps, examines children's lives before they begin school in an effort to understand how to close racial and ethnic gaps in school readiness and educational outcomes. The journal articles cover topics such as: testing children at school entry; family socioeconomic resources; genetics; neuroscience perspectives; low birth weight; health disparities; parenting; and early childhood care and education.

The executive summary and full text of this journal are available at http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info.htm?doc_id=255946.

SAMHSA releases treatment protocol for co-occurring disorders
Using data from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, SAMHSA has released a new Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) designed for mental health providers, substance abuse counselors, and other personnel who work with people with co-occurring disorders. Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders, TIP 42, provides counselors with principles, assessment instruments, strategies, settings and models for treating patients wherever they show for treatment.

The read the full press release go to http://162.99.3.50/news/newsreleases/050131nr_TIP42.htm.

TIP 42 can be ordered through SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) ( http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/ ), P.O. Box 2345, Rockville, MD 20847-2345, or by calling 1-800-729-6686.

Health and well-being of children of immigrants
The Urban Institute has released a report on the health and well-being of children under 6 in immigrant families. It covers immigration trends and impacts, family structure and work, risk factors for poor school performance, hardship and benefit use, health status and insurance coverage, and child care arrangements. The authors present policy implications and highlight issues for further research.

The report is available at http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=311139.

Truancy videoconference archive available online
An archived broadcast of the OJJDP/OSDFS event, "Strategies, Programs, and Resources to Prevent Truancy," is now available online. Originally broadcast on February 23rd, the videoconference provides an overview of the truancy issues addressed in the December 2004 conference "Partnering to Prevent Truancy: A National Priority," and showcases several promising, evidence-based program approaches to truancy and related issues.

The Grant Opportunities page http://www.promoteprevent.org/events/grant_opportunities/ is regularly updated with new announcements of available public and private grant competitions.

We regularly add to a detailed listing of conferences and events occurring within the Center and across the nation. Please visit http://www.promoteprevent.org/events/ page for listings.