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Engaging School Administrators Guide
Briefs on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Prevention and Early Intervention Monograph
Developing Safe Schools Partnerships
We are delighted to let you know that Education Development Center (EDC), with its partner American Institutes of Research (AIR), has once again been selected to operate the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention (The Center). The Center will continue to serve as the national resource center for Safe Schools/Healthy Students, Youth Violence Prevention Program, and Targeted Capacity Expansion grantees. We look forward to continuing to provide you with the resources you need to successfully bring about change in your communities.
Over the next three years, our range of services will include customized technical assistance; events, such as meetings and teleconferences; and materials and resources, such as our Web site, virtual library, and new publications. To offer you the best services available, we will be partnering once again with several organizations that provide expertise in research and practice, communications, evaluation, social and emotional learning, state mental health systems, and juvenile justice and violence prevention.
As we launch this new period, we look forward to new and continued relationships, and, as always, we welcome your input on how best to serve you.
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In September 2005, the Youth Violence Prevention Program (YVPP) team sponsored teleconferences with graduating grantees, titled Strategies for Keeping Your Project Going. Thirteen grantee sites joined in to share strategies, celebrate successes, and pick up new ideas. A few highlights from the teleconferences include the following:
- A number of grantees are developing fee-for-service models, which in one case involved becoming a vendor for a state agency.
- The work begun under YVPP allowed a few grantees to successfully apply for other federal initiatives such as the Safe Schools/Healthy Students program and the National Childhood Traumatic Stress Network.
- Grantees used successful sustainability strategies that include diversified revenue portfolios, partnering with other agencies to widen the pool of potential funding streams, applying for multiple small grants, and finding local and state matching funds.
- For many, the grant initiative allowed the community to build capacity that will remain after the funding is gone.
- One grantee enlisted the aid of a current funder to successfully showcase the programs’ accomplishments to potential funders at an open house.
- Many grantees collaborated effectively with universities, other nonprofit organizations, and their own coalitions to create stronger grant proposals.
For a complete recap, go to http://www.promoteprevent.org/resources/
conference_materials/ under Youth Violence Prevention Program.
The Center recently added a new resource page to its promoteprevent Web site, titled Rural America: Issues and Resources, which can be found at http://www.promoteprevent.org/resources/resource_pages/
program_functions/rural_resources.htm.
The resource page contains a comprehensive annotated bibliography of pertinent Web sites and publications. The promoteprevent Web site contains a wide array of resource pages on a variety of topics. If you have suggestions for additional resource page topics, please contact news@promoteprevent.org.
Divas Rule
Go Girl!
New York, New York
YVPP grantee
(http://www.promoteprevent.org/grantees_at_work/11022005_gogirl.asp)
The Center’s Enewsletter highlights just a few updates from the prevention field. Please go to http://library.promoteprevent.org/ for more news items and resources.
Please note: We have compiled an extensive listing of hurricane recovery resources for schools, parents, mental health professionals, and so forth, which can be accessed at http://www.promoteprevent.org/hurricane_asppage.asp.
Child and adolescent health data now available on an easily accessible Web site
The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health Web site contains data from the 2001 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health. Data are available regarding children’s health and functional status (including mental health status), family functioning, and health care access and utilization. The site is searchable by state, region, age, race, ethnicity, income, and health status. To access this resource, visit http://www.childhealthdata.org/DesktopDefault.aspx.
New report on school bullying released
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) recently released From Teasing to Torment: School Climate in America, a report on school harassment. This report is based on online surveys completed by a nationally representative sample of 3,450 students aged 13-18 and 1,011 secondary school teachers. Topics include frequency of harassment and bullying, exposure to offensive language, and respondents’ personal experiences with harassment at school. The following are key findings from the survey:
- 65% of teens have been verbally or physically harassed or assaulted during the past year because of their perceived or actual appearance, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, race/ethnicity, disability, or religion.
- 36% of teens and 53% of teachers say that bullying or harassment is a serious problem at their school.
- Students from schools with antiharrassment policies that include sexual orientation or gender are more likely to feel very safe at school than are students from schools without such a policy (54% versus 36%).
Comprehensive early childhood resources available online
The National Academy for State Health Policy’s Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) Program has developed an online Reading Room. The ABCD Reading Room provides state policymakers and others with materials on the following topics:
- Relevant findings from the science of early childhood development
- Current guidelines and recommendations for preventive child health care
- Resources that address young children’s mental health
- Chartbooks of key social and quality indicators
- Information about early childhood service initiatives and examples of states’ systemic approaches
- Guide to federal funding for early childhood supports and services
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:
Title: “Let's Just Play” Giveaway Program
Funder: Nickelodeon Television
Description: The purpose of “Let's Just Play” is to give children the opportunity to take action and enter for a chance to win $5,000 to improve their school or community program's fitness resources. Children between the ages of 6 and 15 years partner with teachers and other community-based leaders to tell Nickelodeon what they need for their school or community-based after-school organization.
Award: $5,000 (20 awards per month)
Eligibility: Applicants are limited to children between the ages of 6 and 15 in partnership with public and nonprofit private elementary and middle schools or after-school community-based organizations with 501(c)(3) status.
Deadline: Rolling until May 31, 2006
For more information visit http://www.nick.com/myworld/letsjustplay/giveaway.jhtml
We regularly add to a detailed listing of conferences and events occurring within the National Center and across the nation. For example,
Date: November 17-20
Location: Washington, D.C.
Title: Transforming Systems through Youth and Family Leadership
Sponsor: Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Special note: Includes a pre-conference Policy Day on November 17, 2005, to discuss the status of policy issues affecting children's mental health.
For more information, visit http://www.ffcmh.org/conference.htm
Please visit the Events page at http://www.promoteprevent.org/events/ for a complete listing.
