2006 SS/HS Grantee Meetings
2006 SS/HS Teleconferences
- January 26, 2006: Positive Strategies for Engaging Latino Families
- April 27, 2006: Suicide Prevention for All: Planning and Implementing Culturally Competent Strategies
March 1-3, 2006
Safe Schools/Healthy Students Evaluation and Technical Assistance Workshop
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Washington, D.C.
2005 SS/HS Project Directors and local evaluators were invited to this workshop, which focused on logic model and evaluation plan development.
Materials from this meeting can be viewed here.
Positive Strategies for Engaging Latino Families
January 26, 2006
A peer-to-peer telemeeting
The following questions were discussed during the teleconference:
- What is your school or community doing to reach out to Latino parents?
- What strategies have been successful in dealing with language and/or cultural barriers?
- How can we encourage Latino parents to participate actively in school meetings and other activities?
- How can we learn from core Latino values such as familismo and respeto to involve parents and other family members in children's education and mental health?
Materials from the telemeeting:
Suicide Prevention for All: Planning and Implementing Culturally Competent Strategies
April 27, 2006
Latino Networking Group Teleconference
Speakers: Rich Lieberman, Coordinator of the Suicide Prevention Unit at the Los Angeles Unified School District; and LaVonne Ortega, Prevention Specialist at the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at Education Development Center, Inc.
The speakers addressed concrete strategies and described the resources that are important for all communities, with a focus on culturally-competent prevention techniques that are especially relevant to Latinos and other minority populations.
