Evidence-Based Intervention Fact Sheets
Evidence-Based Interventrions in Practice
Engaging School Administrators Guide
Briefs on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Prevention and Early Intervention Monograph
Developing Safe Schools Partnerships
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The National Center is delighted to announce a new look for our promoteprevent website complete with several new major program enhancements and additions. These changes come as a result of your feedback on information you need and our desire to give you more information in an easy to use format.
Promoteprevent.org gets a new look!
The website offers you new resources and improved navigation. In addition, a new feature to be added later this month is a Grantee Locator , a searchable database of all YVPP, SS/HS, and TCE grantees with contact information and project summaries; you will be able to search for grantees by state and by grant type. It will allow you to find and potentially collaborate with other federal grantees in your area.
The site still includes the Virtual Library, Center Briefs, Grantees-at-Work, Grant Opportunities, past E-Newsletters, and topical Resource Pages.
To check out the new and improved website, go to http://www.promoteprevent.org
Sustainability Resource: The Legacy Wheel
The National Center has developed a unique new resource for program sustainability. The Legacy Wheel is a comprehensive overview of sustainability strategies and resources set within a framework that helps you create and develop your own sustainability work plan. Its features include:
- Definitions of sustainability
- Models of sustainability developed by leading organizations
- Self assessment questions
- Frequently asked questions
- Eight key strategies of sustainability
- Resources on sustainability from the Virtual Library
The Virtual Library - New and Improved
The Virtual Library not only looks different, it has been updated for easier searching and usability. The Library contains over 300 publications, peer-reviewed research, curricula, and web-based resources selected and reviewed by National Center staff; we continually seek out, evaluate and add to the library so the information you find there is the most current and up-to-date. For more specific search results, each of 10 main categories, such as juvenile justice, communications, school environment and education, etc., has resources further sorted into subcategories for your convenience.
To access the Virtual Library, go to http://library.promoteprevent.org/
Psychosocial screening with parenting education can reduce youth violence According to a randomized trial published in the October issue of Pediatrics, 224 youth in an intervention group which included psychosocial screening in a pediatric primary care setting and referrals to a telephone-based parenting education program, had decreases in aggressive behavior, delinquent behavior and attention problems at nine months. The control group was also screened, but physicians did not see the test results. "The intervention significantly reduced the use of corporal punishment by parents and parental depression," the authors wrote. For the complete text, please contact news@promoteprevent.org
Youth in the Justice System: Improving Services Effective evidence-based treatment models have been identified SAMHSA recently joined with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Office of Justice Programs within the U.S. Department of Justice to co-sponsor a National Policy Academy on Improving Services for Youth with Mental Health and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Involved with the Juvenile Justice System. One of the findings of the Academy was that three family-centered treatment models - Functional Family Therapy, Multisystemic Therapy and Oregon Treatment Foster Care - are showing measurable success across multiple sites in reducing re-arrest rates, improving family and school functioning, decreasing mental health symptoms, reducing placements and saving costs. For more information on the Academy and their findings, go to http://alt.samhsa.gov/samhsa_news/VolumeXII_5/article2.htm.
The Grant Opportunities page http://www.promoteprevent.org/resources/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.
