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Information from the Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources
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Volume 3,
Issue 17
December 13, 2005
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BREAKING NEWS
CSAP Prevention Fellowship Program (application
deadline January 4, 2006)
RESEARCH UPDATES
The National Effort to
Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among Students
RESOURCES/MATERIALS
Faith, Hope, and Love:
A Guide for Latino Faith Communities
Resources from the Wisconsin
Council on Children and Families
FUNDING ALERTS
Build the Capacity for Societal
Institutions the Influence Youth Behavior
Outcome Evaluations of Violence
Prevention Programs
2006 Learn and Serve America
Community-Based Grant Program
Criminal Justice Related Health
Disparities among African Americans
Tiger Woods Foundation
Teammates for Kids Foundation
TRAINING/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES
Communities Respond to Youth
Gangs in America
2006 Blueprints Conference
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**BREAKING NEWS**
CSAP Prevention Fellowship
Program (application deadline January 4, 2006)
Wisconsin is now accepting applications from individuals, 18 years
and older to participate in a National Prevention Fellowship Program.
Applicants must be residents of Wisconsin and be willing to work
within the Wisconsin Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services, located within the Wisconsin Department of Health and
Family Services, 1 W. Wilson Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53702.
All application packages must be received no later than January
4, 2006 according to application instructions. Application instructions
and packages can be found at http://wch.uhs.wisc.edu/04-News/04-fellowship.htm
or a copy can be mailed to you by contacting Mr. Louis Oppor, Prevention
Coordinator, Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services,
1 W. Wilson Street, Room 434, Madison, WI 53702, telephone: 608-266-9485.
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention will provide financial
support in the amount of $35,000 annually, within each state, for
the recruitment of a Prevention Fellow. Payment to selected participants
will be made directly by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
The Prevention Fellowship program is anticipated to begin March
1, 2006. One Prevention Fellow will be selected from the pool of
applicants to participate in this program. The Wisconsin Bureau
of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services reserves the right
to reject any and all applications submitted.
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**RESEARCH UPDATES**
The National Effort
to Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among Students
A new report finds significant reductions in driving after drinking
and riding with an intoxicated driver on college campuses where
there are strong campus-community initiatives to prevent binge drinking.
The report, by the Harvard School of Public Health, appears in the
December issue of the journal Traffic
Injury Prevention. The study evaluates the effect on drinking
and driving outcomes of the program "A Matter of Degree: The
National Effort to Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among Students"
(AMOD), a campus-community coalition initiative to reduce binge
drinking by college students. The AMOD program fosters collaboration
between universities and their local communities to change environments
around campuses that promote heavy alcohol consumption. Examples
of strategies that make up an AMOD program include: mandatory training
for responsible beverage service; requiring registration for purchasers
of kegs; prohibiting the selling of alcohol without a license; keeping
alcohol-related items out of student bookstores; expansion of substance-free
residence halls; and promotion of alcohol-free activities. The study
examined student responses from the AMOD communities (10 geographically
diverse college communities monitored from 1997-2001 to evaluate
the program's success) and compared them to responses from students
attending 32 matched colleges from the national College Alcohol
Study. Additional information about the AMOD evaluation can be found
at www.hsph.harvard.edu/amod/.
Schools participating in the AMOD program include: Florida State
University ; Georgia Institute of Technology; Lehigh University;
Louisiana State University; University of Colorado; University of
Delaware; University of Iowa; University of Nebraska at Lincoln;
University of Vermont; and University of Wisconsin. For more information
about AMOD, go to www.alcoholpolicysolutions.net/.
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**RESOURCES/MATERIALS**
Faith,
Hope, and Love: A Guide for Latino Faith Communities
New research released by the National Campaign to Prevent
Teen Pregnancy, and developed by Child Trends, indicates that teens
from religious families and those with friends who regularly attend
religious services tend to have sex at later ages compared to teens
whose parents have religious beliefs that are not as strong and
whose peers don't attend services as regularly. The National Campaign
also released a new guide, Faith,
Hope, and Love: How Latino Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen
Pregnancy. Created in partnership with a distinguished
group of advisors, the guide provides faith leaders serving Latino
families ideas to help young people avoid too-early pregnancy and
parenthood. Currently, half of all Latina teens get pregnant by
age 20 and Latina teens have the highest teen birth rate among major
racial/ethnic groups. For more information, including the Science
Says Research Brief #20 and the Spanish version of Faith,
Hope, and Love, go to www.teenpregnancy.org/religion/.
Both versions of this guide are also available from the Wisconsin
Clearinghouse Prevention Resource Center (PRC). To order copies,
contact the PRC at (800) 248-9244 and request item #E026 (English)
or #SP055 (Spanish).
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Resources
from the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
The following are new resources and conference opportunities from
the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF). Networking
Neurons E-Newsletter covers the area of brain development
from prenatal through adolescence. The newsletter will discuss ways
to promote the healthy development of all ages, through social emotional
interactions, play, proper nutrition, information about the factors
that influence development, and possible resulting outcomes. It
will also revive the objective of the former quarterly newsletter
of the State Brain Team to highlight and connect the activities
and efforts of local brain teams across the state. To subscribe,
go to www.wccf.org/email.
WCCF recently released WisKids Count 2005. The theme
of the book is Children's Health, and it contains data by county
about a wide range of factors, from child welfare and juvenile delinquency
to children's health and education. For more information, go to
www.wccf.org/projects/wiskids/2005/2005wiskids.htm
. On March 14-15, 2006 at the Sheraton Hotel in Madison, WI, WCCF
will present Open Minds: Implications of Adolescent Brain
Research on Juvenile Justice. For more information and to
register, see www.wccf.org/JJABC/index.htm.
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**FUNDING ALERTS**
Build
the Capacity for Societal Institutions the Influence Youth Behavior
The federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will award a total of $8
million to build the capacity of groups that wield influence over
youth behaviors. The National Programs to Build the Capacity for
Societal Institutions that Influence Youth Behavior grants will
help establish a national program to prevent behaviors and unhealthy
environments that place young people at risk for a myriad of health
problems, including HIV, other STDs, unintended pregnancies, tobacco
use, asthma, chronic diseases, and mental illness. About 30 grants
will be awarded to nonprofits and colleges. Applications are due
January 9, 2006. For more information, see the full
grant announcement.
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Outcome
Evaluations of Violence Prevention Programs
The National
Institute of Justice (NIJ) is accepting proposals to conduct comprehensive
evaluations of promising violence prevention programs. The objective
is to expand the list of effective interventions. Promising programs
and strategies with some evidence of effectiveness in the prevention
of violence to and by youth are a necessary aspect of this solicitation.
To be considered "promising," programs selected for outcome
or impact evaluation under this solicitation must have already been
developed, implemented, and demonstrated to be effective in the
prevention of violent behavior. All proposals must be submitted
electronically using grants.gov.
The submission deadline is February 24, 2006. The solicitation (SL
000732) is available online at www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/sl000732.pdf.
Questions should be addressed to NIJ at 202–305–7807.
For further information about applying through Grants.gov,
visit www.grants.gov/Apply.
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2006
Learn and Serve America Community-Based Grant Program
The purpose of
the Corporation for National & Community Service – 2006
Learn and Serve America Community-Based Grant Program is to promote
the development and sustainability of high-quality community-based
service learning programs in youth-serving community organizations
across the nation. Funds will be used by intermediary organizations
to create curriculum materials; support training and technical assistance
activities; make subgrants to local organizations that will implement
service-learning programs for youth ages five to seventeen; and
strengthen, expand, and anchor a network of youth-serving community-based
organizations that implement service learning programs. Applicants
eligible for funds are state commissions on national and community
service, and grant-making entities (GMEs) in existence at least
one year at the time of application. GMEs are defined as public
or private nonprofit organizations experienced with service learning,
and proposing to make subgrants in two or more states. Local partners
may include private and public schools, for-profit businesses, faith-based
and other nonprofits, and institutions of higher education. The
local partnerships are responsible for implementation, replication,
and expansion of service-learning activities in local communities.
The corporation anticipates making approximately ten to fifteen
program grants of between $350,000 and $500,000 for each of three
successive years. The second and third years of funding are contingent
on satisfactory performance, the availability of funds, and other
criteria established in the award agreement. The application deadline
is March 7, 2006. For more information, go to www.learnandserve.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=18.
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Criminal
Justice Related Health Disparities among African Americans
The new Drug
Abuse as a Cause, Correlate, or Consequence of Criminal Justice
Related Health Disparities among African Americans grants announced
by the National Institutes on Health will support epidemiological,
prevention, treatment, and services research on the relationship
between crime, addiction, and healthcare disparities in African-American
populations. "Health disparities among African-Americans are
a major public-health concern in the United States," the grant
announcement noted. "In particular, while African-Americans
represent about 12 percent of the general population, they are over-represented
in the criminal-justice system. This announcement is aimed at fostering
new drug abuse and addiction research on criminal justice-related
health and disease outcomes among African Americans. Specifically,
it seeks to understand risk factors and pathways between drug abuse
and criminal justice involvement, and to determine the extent to
which criminal justice involvement and HIV/AIDS risk are interlinked
or compounded by drug abuse and addiction." About 10 awards
will be made, capped at $350,000 each. Governments, schools, nonprofits,
and for-profit groups may apply. For the full grant announcement
see www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/NIH/NIH/PA-06-068/Grant.html.
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Tiger
Woods Foundation
The Tiger Woods
Foundation grant-making process focuses on providing opportunities
to children and families who are underserved. The following are
approved programmatic areas for funding: education, youth development,
and geographic focus. Organizations must be tax-exempt under Section
501(c)3 and not a 509(a) private foundation. (Please note: public
schools are not 501(c)(3) tax-exempt. Individual organizations within
a public school that are 501(c)(3) tax-exempt may apply.) Application
deadlines are February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1 annually.
For more information, go to www.twfound.org/grants/default.sps?itype=7609.
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Teammates
for Kids Foundation
Teammates for
Kids Foundation contributes financial resources to selected nonprofit
organizations that effectively serve and benefit children, with
an emphasis on health, education, and inner-city services. These
funding priorities include grants that: emphasize prevention and/or
recovery from health problems; enhance the health of needy children
by promoting healthy lifestyles; encourage educational achievement
in areas of documented weakness; promote advanced learning opportunities
to gifted children who would otherwise lack the resources necessary
to pursue dreams and talents; provide health and educational programs
targeted to low-income children in the inner city; and strengthen
the capacity of operating nonprofit organizations to more effectively
meet the needs of low-income children in the inner city. To qualify
for a grant, an organization must: have a record of outstanding
service in effectively and efficiently delivering programs and services
that improve the lives of needy children; deliver services that
impact the lives of children, both short- and long-term; and ensure
100 percent of grant monies received are used for the exclusive
benefit of children. Application deadlines are April 1 and October
1 annually. For more information, go to www.teammates4kids.com/apply_for_grant/apply_grant.htm.
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**TRAININGS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES**
Communities
Respond to Youth Gangs in America
On January 11, 2006, at 11 am ET, the Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention will air the two-hour videoconference
"Communities Respond to Youth Gangs in America." The videoconference
program, which may be viewed via satellite downlink or on the Internet,
will feature community programs and strategies that effectively
address the problem of youth gangs. It will explore strategies to
leverage resources, provide examples of partnerships across disciplines,
highlight innovative strategies, and share information on faith-based
responses and neighborhood efforts. The broadcast is designed for
anyone interested in addressing youth gangs, including school personnel,
school resource officers/G.R.E.A.T officers, law enforcement professionals,
local Boys & Girls Club staff, youth development professionals,
probation and corrections officers, prosecutors and court personnel,
researchers, elected officials, and youth leaders. To access further
information and register online, visit www.trc.eku.edu/jj.
For technical questions about receiving this videoconference, go
to www.trc.eku.edu/jj/faq.html.
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2006
Blueprints Conference
On March 13-15, 2006, in Denver, CO, the Blueprints for Violence
Prevention Initiative at the Center for the Study and Prevention
of Violence will hold the 2006 Blueprints Conference. The goal of
the conference is to disseminate science-based information on youth
violence, delinquency, and drug prevention programs. Speakers will
include J. Robert Flores, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention; Delbert S. Elliott, Executive Director,
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence; and J. David Hawkins,
Founding Director, Social Development Research Group. To obtain
further information about the conference and to register online,
visit www.blueprintsconference.com.
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