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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Upcoming YVPP and TCE Sustainability Teleconferences
The Youth Violence Prevention Program and Targeted Capacity Expansion technical assistance teams are planning a series of five sustainability teleconferences. The teleconferences are scheduled for the first Thursday of each month beginning on Thursday, February 2nd. Topics are as follows:
- Planning for sustainability: Leaving a Legacy (focused on the Legacy Wheel)
- Communicating for Sustainability
- Finding and Developing Foundation Funding
- Developing Revenue: Looking Beyond Grant Funding
- Keeping Your Program Going: Strategies that Work
Upcoming Safe Schools/Healthy Students Evaluation Event
2005 Safe Schools/Healthy Students Project Directors and local evaluators are invited to the upcoming Evaluation and Technical Assistance Workshop to be held March 1–3, 2006, in Washington, D.C. Invitees will be receiving a draft agenda by e-mail soon.
Updates to the Evaluation Resource Page
We have updated the Evaluation Resource Page to include center resources and center conference materials. Please visit at http://www.promoteprevent.org/resources/resource_pages/
program_functions/evaluation.htm.
Collaboration and Sustainability: Challenges for Comprehensive Communitywide Initiatives
At the recent OJJDP national conference, Building on Success: Providing Today’s Youth with Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, representatives from the National Center led a workshop on why collaboration is key to the success of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students program. In addition, two graduate grantees addressed the challenges of collaboration and sustainability at their sites. To view the National Center PowerPoint presentation given at the workshop, click here.
Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Among Runaway and Homeless Youth
Intimate Partner Prevention Project for Runaway and Homeless Youth
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
YVPP Grantee
We want to hear from you!
Let us hear about your own Grantees at Work story. If you’ve developed a creative solution to a problem you’ve faced, come up with interesting ideas for programs or events, or successfully implemented strategies that you think would be useful for other grantees to hear about, please e-mail a brief description and your contact information to news@promoteprevent.org. You could be featured in an upcoming Grantees at Work story, and your experiences could help other grantees!
To read past Grantees at Work stories, go to http://www.promoteprevent.org/grantees_at_work/.
This section highlights just a few updates from the prevention field. Please go to http://library.promoteprevent.org/ for more news items and resources.
New Department of Education center focuses on rural issues
The U.S. Department of Education recently created the Center for Rural Education. This center will address the challenges facing rural schools and will serve as a resource to local, tribal, state, and national entities to further educational achievement in rural communities. A primary goal of the center will be to update The Condition of Education in Rural Schools, a report last released in 1994. The center will also host a series of focus groups and forums to highlight issues facing rural education. For more information, visit the Center for Rural Education’s Web site at http://www.ed.gov/nclb/freedom/local/rural/index.html.
Results from a national survey on school crime and safety
A new report, Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2005, was recently released by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. This report is based on information drawn from a variety of independent data sources, including national surveys of students, teachers, and principals, and data collected from federal departments and agencies. While there has been a decrease in student victimization over the last decade, many school safety issues, including the following, are still widespread:
- 71% of public schools experienced one or more violent incidents and 36% of public schools reported violent incidents to the police.
- Middle schools were more likely than primary and secondary schools to report racial tensions, bullying, verbal abuse of teachers, and widespread disorder in the classrooms. 43% of middle schools reported daily or weekly student bullying, compared with 26% of primary and 25% of secondary schools.
- 21% of students ages 12–18 reported that street gangs were present at their school during the previous 6 months.
- 7% of students ages 12–18 reported that they had been bullied at school during the previous 6 months.
- In 1999 and 2001, students ages 12–18 were more likely to report they were afraid of being attacked at school or on the way to and from school than away from school; however, in 2003, no such difference was detected.
- 10% of students in urban schools feared being attacked at school, compared with 5% each of their peers in suburban and rural schools.
Issue of the Journal of School Violence examines school violence at every grade level
A recent edition of the Journal of School Violence contains the following articles:
- An examination of school violence and safety in South Florida elementary schools: This study examined conditions of safety and violence in South Florida elementary schools. Although conditions were generally considered safe in these schools, approximately one-half of the students expressed some concerns about their safety. Students who do not have positive relationships with other students at school and do not feel safe in their community generally feel less safe at school. In addition, students who experience academic difficulty in school and do not expect to attain an education beyond high school feel less safe at school. Male students and those from lower SES backgrounds also tend to feel less safe.
- An experimental evaluation of an Internet-delivered conflict resolution skills curriculum in a secondary school setting: This study tested the efficacy of an Internet-delivered conflict resolution program among 198 9th grade students from a large urban area high school. The program emphasizes the development of conflict management skills, which may decrease future use of violent tactics to manage conflict. Students exposed to the program reported an increase in knowledge of conflict management skills and negative attitudes toward violence.
- Evaluation of a program designed to reduce relational aggression in middle school girls: An innovative program designed specifically to help middle school girls confront and cope with issues related to relational aggression was developed, implemented, and evaluated in two school systems. Attitudes and self-reported behaviors were measured before and after the program. Results show an improvement in relationship skills after participation in the program.
- Teachers’ attitudes and beliefs about bullying: Two exploratory studies
- Bullying on the school bus: A video analysis
- Students’ perceptions of the school climate: Implications for school safety
For a copy of any of these articles, please e-mail news@promoteprevent.org. For more information on school safety and effective school violence interventions, Safe, Supportive, and Successful Schools Step by Step is a great resource. You can order this guide online at http://www.sopriswest.com/ERP2Web/ProductPage.aspx?parentId=
019004033&functionID=009000008.
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: Lowe's Toolbox for Education Grant Program
Funder: Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation
Description: Lowe's Toolbox for Education program will award grants to parent-teacher organizations for improvement projects at up to 1,000 schools across the United States. Grants will support a wide range of efforts, including public school libraries, specialty learning labs, landscaping, painting projects, and playgrounds.
Award: Up to $5,000
Eligibility: Applicants are limited to parent groups at K–12 schools in the United States. Applicant schools or parent groups must have a group tax ID number or official 501(c)(3) status.
Deadline: March 15, 2006
For more information: http://www.toolboxforeducation.com/
We regularly add to a detailed listing of conferences and events occurring within the National Center and across the nation. For example,
Date: February 7, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. ET
Location: Webcast
Title: Dating & Violence Should Never Be a Couple: Preventing Teen Dating Violence
Sponsor: HRSA Office of Women's Health and HHS Office on Women's Health and Administration of Children and Families
Description: This Webcast will feature presentations on Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Justice–funded programs targeting teen dating violence. It is targeted toward HRSA, DHHS OWH, CDC, and ACF employees and grantees who work with adolescent populations.
For more information: Contact Larissa J. Estes at LEstes@hrsa.gov or (301) 443-1527.
Please visit the Events page at http://www.promoteprevent.org/events/ for a complete listing.
