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Engaging School Administrators Guide
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Prevention and Early Intervention Monograph
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Latino Networking Teleconference with Judge Luis Perez
The Center's Latino Networking Group participated in a third teleconference Thursday, October 14th. The topic was Youth and Gangs and featured speaker Luis Perez, Justice of the Worcester, MA Juvenile Court. Judge Perez shared his experiences as a Puerto Rican youth growing up in Worcester, as a community organizer, and as a judge in the Juvenile Justice Court.
He offered insight on important program elements to address when working within a community where youth gangs are present, such as, creating staff knowledge and cultural awareness, addressing fragmented systems of communication among services, creating systemic and holistic approaches to addressing gang presence, and the non-traditional ways of involving community members. If you would like further information about the proceedings from this conference call, please contact news@promoteprevent.org.
The next Latino Networking Group Teleconference is tentatively scheduled for December 15th. Check the Center Events page for this and other center events.
YVPP grantee holds Girlfighting conference and releases report
The Governor's Prevention Partnership of Connecticut, a YVPP grantee, held a one-day conference on October 15th. Girlfighting: Preventing Girls' Aggression and Violence featured:
- A keynote presentation from Lyn Mikel Brown using research on girlfighting behavior to examine media representations of violence and the current ‘hype' about girls turning more violent. Ms. Brown is a professor, author of Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls, and co-founder of the Maine-based non-profit Hardy Girls Healthy Women.
- A release of the Partnership's report Preventing Girls' Violence and Aggression and panel discussion. The report defines aggression and examines the latest statistics, outlines girls' pathways to aggression and violence, calls for gender-specific prevention programming, and offers recommendations for educators, families, community service providers, policy makers, law enforcement, and juvenile justice systems. The report is available as an Adobe Acrobat pdf online at http://www.preventionworksct.org/pdf/G&Vfinalreport.pdf.
- Workshops on promising practices in the prevention of girls' aggression.
National Center staff are currently preparing a comprehensive resource of the complete conference proceedings, including keynotes, panels, and workshops, to be advertised in a future newsletter issue.
The Coalition for Community Schools, an alliance of 170 organizations, including health and mental health agencies, family support networks, youth development agencies, education policymakers, community development organizations, and community school networks, is one of the many programs of the Institute for Educational Leadership. The community schools concept knits together the work of schools and community partners to improve student learning and strengthen families and communities.
The Coalition's National Forum – Community Schools: The Time is Now! will take place in Chicago, Illinois March 9-11, 2005. Participants will be able to visit successful Chicago community schools to see how they work and to participate in interactive skill-building workshops. Keynotes will include well-known senior education, community, and political leaders discussing the benefits of community schools.
For registration and agenda information, visit the Coalition's website at: http://www.communityschools.org/
Embracing Diversity
Barb Zandlo Hutchinson and Jody Herron
Independent School District #16, Spring Lake Park, MN
SS/HS grantee
NIH panel finds that scare tactics for violence prevention are harmful
Programs that rely on scare tactics such as group detention centers, boot camps, and “get tough programs” are ineffective and often exacerbate problems by grouping young people with delinquent tendencies. This announcement was released by an NIH panel charged to assess the available evidence on violence prevention and adolescent risk behaviors and convened for a State-of-the-Science Conference. The panel identified strengths and weaknesses in the field of violence prevention research, made recommendations for future efforts, and highlighted two promising programs (Multisystemic Therapy and Functional Family Therapy). To access the panel's draft statement, archived conference webcasts, and other conference materials, visit http://consensus.nih.gov/.
Successful Program Implementation: Lessons Learned from the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative
Results from a process evaluation conducted by the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative were published in a recent OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin. Blueprints evaluated the implementation quality of 9 violence and drug prevention programs in 147 sites and identified 6 critical components of successful implementation: site needs assessment, effective organization, qualified staff, empowered program champion(s), program integration into an agency's goals and mission, training and technical assistance, and implementation fidelity. The report goes on to highlight lessons learned and recommendations for each critical component component. The Juvenile Justice Bulletin is available at: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/ojjdp/204273.pdf
Parent-school and community partnerships in children's mental health: A How-to guide
Featured in the September issue of the Journal of Child and Family Studies, “Parent-school and community partnerships in children's mental health: Networking challenges, dilemmas, and solutions” explores how an inner-city neighborhood created successful community partnerships through traditional networking strategies. Investigators identify effective and ineffective networking strategies and offer recommendations for improving communication.
This article and the entire September issue of the Journal for Child and Family Studies is available for free online at: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1062-1024/contents
HEALTHY PEOPLE 2010 companion document focuses on critical health objectives for adolescents and young adults
“Improving the Health of Adolescents & Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities” provides guidance and a framework for planning and implementing programs for healthy adolescents and young adults. It extracts Healthy People 2010 Critical Objectives that are key to the health of adolescents and young adults, such as unintentional injury, violence, substance abuse, mental health, and reproductive health, and provides a framework for translating the objectives into a plan for improving the health and safety of youth in their communities. The guide is intended as a resource for national, state, and local adolescent health programs. The guide is available at: http://nahic.ucsf.edu/index.php/companion/index.
We regularly add to a detailed listing of conferences and events occurring across the nation. Please visit http://www.promoteprevent.org/events/national_events.htm
If you are interested in learning of the latest grant opportunities, the Grant Opportunities page is regularly updated with new announcements of available public and private grant competitions.
