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State-by-State Grantee Locator now available
The Grantee Locator is a searchable database of all YVPP, SS/HS, and TCE grantees. Listings include contact information, project summaries, and TAS contacts. The Locator is designed to allow you to search for grantees by state and by grant type. Use it to find collaborators among other federal grantees in your area. The Grantee Locator also includes recipients of SAMSHA's Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families or "Systems of Care" grants. The "Systems of Care" program provides grants to projects that deliver comprehensive community mental health services for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families.
Check out the Grantee Locator at http://www.promoteprevent.org/about/grantee_locator/.

Audio from Latino Networking TeleRadio Event available online
An archived recording of the December Latino Networking Group TeleRadio event is now available online. The event, titled "Successfully Engaging Latino Families and Communities," featured grantees from the SS/HS, TCE and YVPP grant programs. The archived recording is available through a streaming web server at
http://easylink.playstream.com/mhpyvp/teleradio_12-15-04.wax.

Don't forget to sign up:
Feb 14- March 11
Creating Safe, Supportive, and Successful Schools (C4S) is an innovative SAMHSA sponsored online event presented by the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention. For more information on this event and how you can participate, click here.

The National Center will be offering three teleconferences with our technical partners:

Community Schools (Second offering)
February 4, 2005 (1pmEST/12pmCST/11amMST/10amPST/9amAlaska)
Join us to learn how community schools are becoming a framework within which schools, cities, counties, United Ways, public and private agencies and community groups are working together to help young people succeed while strengthening their families and communities. Find out how the community schools approach can help sustain the work of Safe Schools/Health Students, Youth Violence/Prevention Programs, and Targeted Capacity Expansion (TCE). Speakers: Joy Dryfoos, nationally recognized researcher and advocate for full service community schools; Cathy Gray, Assistant Superintendent, Evansville, Indiana ; Martin Blank, Staff Director, Coalition for Community Schools.
Call in number: (888) 737-5834. At the prompt, enter passcode 301648.

Issues in Child Welfare/ Foster Care
February 14, 2005 (1pmEST/12pmCST/11amMST/10amPST/9amAlaska)
The Behavioral Health Division of the Child Welfare League of America provides national leadership in the advancement of policy, programs, and practices that address behavioral health issues in families known to the child welfare system. Steve Hornberger and Millicent Williams of the CWLA will present on a number of issues relevant to children in foster care including the scope of the child welfare problem, issues of child welfare youth in schools, effective strategies and resources. If you have questions that you'd like Drs. Hornberger and Williams to address, you may either ask in advance at news@promoteprevent.org or during the presentation. Call in number: (888) 737-5834. At the prompt, enter passcode 301648.

NAAPIMHA (National Asian-American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association)
RESCHEDULED:
FEBRUARY 25, 2005 (1pmEST/12pmCST/11amMST/10amPST/9amAlaska)
DJ Ida, executive director of the Asian-American Pacific Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA) will discuss 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. If you have questions that you'd like Dr. Ida to address, you may either ask in advance at news@promoteprevent.org or during the presentation. Call in number: (888) 737-5834. At the prompt, enter passcode 301648.

Art or Magic? Creating Community Awareness
Children's Village
Yakima , WA
TCE grantee

SAMHSA Announces New Suicide Prevention Hotline
This January, SAMHSA launched the new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK. Part of the National Suicide Prevention Initiative (NSPI), the Lifeline is a network of crisis centers located in communities across the country that are committed to suicide prevention. Callers to the hotline will receive counseling from trained staff from a certified crisis center in the network. NSPI incorporates the best practices and research findings in suicide prevention and intervention to reduce the incidence of suicide nationwide. In addition to the Lifeline, the NSPI offers a new website and a nation-wide public education campaign.
For more information on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, visit http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

SAMHSA notices no longer published in the Federal Register
Effective January 3, 2005, SAMHSA will no longer publish Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs) and Requests for Applications (RFA's) in the Federal Register. They will only be posted on the SAMHSA website, http://www.samhsa.gov, and at Grants.gov (hyperlink: http://www.grants.gov). Single source or limited competition announcements will continue to be published in the Federal Register.
The read the full press release, go to http://162.99.3.50/news/newsreleases/050104ma_publish.htm.

Screening and assessing mental health and substance use disorders among youth in the juvenile justice system
A new online guide from the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice titled, Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Resource Guide for Practitioners, includes profiles of more than 50 instruments, guidelines for selection, and recommendations for best practices in diverse settings.
The guide is available at http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/ojjdp/204956.pdf.

The ABC's of bullying: Online Course
The ABC's of Bullying: Addressing, Blocking, and Curbing School Aggression is an online course now available through the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's (CSAP) Prevention Pathways website. The ABC's of Bullying examines the causes and effects of bullying, prevention techniques and programs, screening, treatment options, and legal/ethical issues surrounding bullying. The course qualifies for Continuing Education Units and is intended for health and mental health practitioners, educators, and parents.
http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/bully/bully_intro_pg1.htm

Youth Violence Perpetration: What Protects? What Predicts?
A research study described in the December issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health sought to examine risk and protective factors for violence perpetration among boys and girls. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, investigators found that risk factors predictive of violence perpetration included victimization, school and health problems, and friend suicide. However, protective factors, such as family and adult connectedness and religiosity, decreased the likelihood of perpetration, even with risk factors present. Investigators use these findings to support the use of dual strategies that reduce risk factors while promoting protective factors.
For a copy of this article, email news@promoteprevent.org.

Can we measure school improvement?
In Schooling, Statistics, and Poverty: Can We Measure School Improvement?, Stephen Raudenbush of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan examines two ways of using available test data to judge school effectiveness and improvement. Dr. Raudenbush concludes that these measures of test data are useful, but do not reveal evidence of the quality of school practice and discusses the flaws in the current accountability systems at the state and federal levels.
This report is available at http://ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PICANG9.pdf.

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 the Events page for listings.