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ONLINE
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Information from the Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources
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Volume 4,
Issue 3
February 15, 2006
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BREAKING NEWS
2006 Wisconsin State Prevention Conference
RESEARCH UPDATES
Alcohol biggest problem
for community coalitions
RESOURCES/MATERIALS
Rural
Fundraising: Success Stories for CASA/GAL Programs
The
Courage to Speak Foundation website
National Coalition Institute's
Research into Action
Harvard Family Research Project
Resource Guide on Family Involvement
National Calendar of Crime Victim
Assistance-Related Events
Making a Difference in the Lives
of Youth
Can Positive Youth Development
Improve Juvenile Justice?
FUNDING ALERTS
Children's Trust Fund Family
Resource Center grants
TRAINING/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES
"Together for Children" – 19th Annual
Wisconsin Conference on Child Abuse & Neglect
Teaching Youth about the
Law: National Training Institute
OJJDP/Correctional Leadership
Development training program
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**BREAKING NEWS**
2006 Wisconsin State
Prevention Conference
SAVE THE DATE! Wisconsin Prevention 2006: Tools to Build a Prevention
Framework will be held July 18-19, 2006, at the new Holiday Inn
& Convention Center, Stevens Point. Workshop topics include:
*Parents Who Host Lost the Most; *Fearless Advocacy; *Evaluate for
Impact; *Bullying Prevention; *Strengthening Families; *Stabilizing
Funding; plus MADD President Glynn Birch. Watch for more details
online at http://wch.uhs.wisc.edu.
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**RESEARCH UPDATES**
Alcohol biggest problem
for community coalitions
Two-thirds of community anti-drug coalitions say that alcohol causes
the most problems for their coalition, compared to 59.3 percent
citing marijuana, 51.3 percent citing tobacco, and 32.9 percent
naming methamphetamine, according to research from Community
Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA). Data on nearly
1,000 community-based groups that took part in CADCA's National
Coalition Registry also showed most coalitions (52 percent) described
themselves as county or regionally based, 29.1 percent said they
were city based, and 7 percent called themselves faith based. Just
3.3 percent of coalitions had budgets over $1 million, and 14.6
percent had no budget at all. Program activities included coordinating
development of community laws and policies against substance abuse
(53.8 percent), leveraging anti-drug law enforcement (51.6 percent),
coordinating drug-free social and recreational activities (48 percent),
and media advocacy and social marketing (46.2 percent). Direct services
provided by coalitions include information dissemination, media
awareness, and community mobilization.
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**RESOURCES/MATERIALS**
Rural
Fundraising: Success Stories for CASA/GAL Programs
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) now has available the new
guide Rural Fundraising: Success Stories for CASA/GAL Programs.
The National CASA Association commissioned Kim Klein, the nation's
premiere grassroots fundraising authority, to develop this anthology
of successful strategies. The guide describes successful and easy-to-imitate
fundraising strategies. An introductory essay by Kim Klein titled
"Raising Money in Rural Communities" describes basic principles
of rural fundraising. The second part of the manual contains 15
examples of successful strategies, from direct mail to events to
earned income. Each example is described in some detail, and most
are accompanied by sample materials. While the majority of the examples
are not from CASA/GAL programs, they can easily be adapted for your
use. The collection ends with a blank template to fill in and submit
whenever you use a fundraising strategy from which you think others
could learn. This guide will grow and become more valuable as we
collect your ideas and distribute them in future updates. Download
the complete guide or individual sections at www.casanet.org/program-management/resource-dev/rural-fundraising.htm.
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The
Courage to Speak Foundation website
The Courage To Speak Foundation, Inc. (CTS), a non-profit drug prevention
organization, has launched a new website, www.couragetospeak.org,
offering helpful tools to help parents keep their teens away from
drugs. The site, co-sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Mental
Health and Addiction Services, allows users to sample the organization's
award-winning presentations, personal testimonials, advice for parents,
and up-to-date drug information. The Courage To Speak Foundation
targets students, parents, and communities with knowledge and tools
to encourage children and parents to talk openly and honestly about
the dangers of drugs and empower children to live drug free lives.
The site includes informational links to other websites, upcoming
prevention awareness events, news articles, a parent's guide to
getting involved, letters from teens, and more.
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National
Coalition Institute's Research into Action
Hard-to-reach, underserved, disengaged—no matter the terminology,
every community coalition must address ways to engage and empower
groups of people in their community that are rarely considered.
Learning about these audiences is not easy, but participatory research
methods are showing promise in empowering community members, making
their voices heard, and helping coalitions understand what makes
neighborhoods tick. One such method is Photovoice, a process that
uses photography to capture the voices and visions of community
members. The method has been used in a variety of settings to conduct
research on diverse populations. Learn more about what researchers
found in evaluating a Photovoice program in Battle Creek, Michigan,
in the newest edition of the National Coalition Institute's Research
into Action. To read further, go to the Coalition
Resources page of the National Coalition Institute's website.
Research into Action is a free publication that reports on research
findings impacting the work of coalitions. Published six times a
year by CADCA's National Coalition Institute, each issue examines
what coalitions can do to implement knowledge they gain in their
communities. Sign up for a free e-mail subscription at www.coalitioninstitute.org/Coalition_Resources/CoalitionResourcesHome.asp.
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Harvard
Family Research Project Resource Guide on Family Involvement
There is more information on family involvement online than any
one person can keep track of. To help, the Harvard Family Research
Project has compiled and categorized this large body of information
to make it easier to access and use. This resource guide contains
web links to research, information, programs, and tools from over
100 national organizations. It provides information about parenting
practices to support children's learning and development, home-school
relationships, parent leadership development, and collective engagement
for school improvement and reform. The resource guide is available
online at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/guide/guide.html
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National
Calendar of Crime Victim Assistance-Related Events
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) launched the online and interactive
National Calendar of Crime Victim Assistance-Related Events. Now
there is a centralized resource that can keep you up to date on
what's taking place around the Nation, or in your own backyard.
Visit http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/ovccalendar
for OVC's latest web tool designed to keep professionals informed
about what is happening in the field. OVC's Calendar of Events helps
crime victim service providers and allied professionals stay in
touch with all of the latest victim assistance conferences, trainings,
ceremonies, and other events throughout the Nation: scan events
coming up next week, next month, or even next year; sign up to be
notified of victim-related events as they are added; and promote
your own event to a national audience.
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Making
a Difference in the Lives of Youth
A new compendium from the National Collaboration for Youth (NCY)
profiles 10 out-of-school-time programs and identifies the best
approaches offered throughout the country, leading to positive outcomes
for youth. NCY, with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation,
researched data and lessons learned from model programs that are
making a difference in the lives of youth. The intention is not
to present an exhaustive collection of programs, but rather to illustrate
the scope and impact of programming being offered by NCY member
organizations and their partners in local communities throughout
the nation. Each of the case studies profiles an out-of-school-time
program in action. Readers will discover how the programs are making
a difference, through individual stories and quotes from youth,
parents, program implementers, program developers, and researchers.
See www.nassembly.org/nydic/programming/newideas/MakingaDifferenceintheLivesofYouth.htm.
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Can
Positive Youth Development Improve Juvenile Justice?
If you missed this Urban Institute/Chapin Hall forum, initially
held on January 19, 2006, on incorporating what we know about how
youth develop capacities for reason into juvenile justice practices,
you can hear the panel online at www.urban.org/Pressroom/thursdayschild/jan2006.cfm.
The panel, Can Positive Youth Development Improve Juvenile Justice,
discussed intervention programs built around concepts of positive
youth development, a promising new approach to making juvenile justice
more effective. The programs suggest that children develop into
successful adults by working through a sequence of developmental
stages in which they gradually acquire capacities for reason, self-respect,
and personal and social responsibility. Connect for Kids' editor
Susan Phillips also wrote a field report, available at http://www.connectforkids.org/field_reports.
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**FUNDING ALERTS**
Children's
Trust Fund Family Resource Center grants
The Children's
Trust Fund will award three grants of $75,000 each for family resource
centers to strengthen and support families in the Southern, Southeastern
(excluding Milwaukee County), and Northeastern Regions of Wisconsin.
The Request for Proposals (RFP) was released January 19, 2006. Download
the entire RFP and appropriate forms from http://wctf.state.wi.us/home/RFP%20request.htm.
Also, receive application materials by contacting the Children's
Trust Fund, 110 East Main Street, Suite 614, Madison, WI 53703;
at 608-266-6871; or by fax at 608-266-3792. Contact Teressa Pellett,
Programs Director, at teressa.pellett@ctf.state.wi.us
with questions on the RFP process, application, or required forms.
Proposals are due on March 10, 2006.
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**TRAININGS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES**
"Together
for Children" – 19th Annual Wisconsin Conference on Child
Abuse & Neglect
Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin is hosting the 2006 Wisconsin Conference
on Child Abuse & Neglect. Held on April 5-7, 2006, "Together
for Children" features eight conference tracks, with three
or four workshops in each track. Conference attendees may choose
to attend all of the workshops in a track or selected workshops
from several tracks. 2006 track options include: State Call to Action
to Prevent Child Maltreatment; Strengthening Families; Spotlight
on Prevention Strategies; Neglect; Investigation and Prosecution
Issues; Linkages Between Child Abuse & Neglect and other societal
problems; Adolescent Issues in Child Abuse; and General Sessions.
Online registration is available. Find out more about the conference
at http://www.uwsp.edu/conted/conferences/tfc/.
To view a PDF version of the conference brochure, visit http://www.uwsp.edu/conted/brochures/abrochures/tfc-2006.pdf
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Teaching
Youth about the Law: National Training Institute
On March 13-15, 2006, in Philadelphia, PA, Youth for Justice will
be conducting the Teaching Youth about the Law: National Training
Institute. The institute is designed for a variety of professionals
who teach or want to teach young people about the law. It features
concurrent, interactive, and intensive small group training tracks
designed for particular professionals and interests. All sessions
will feature curricula and training materials from Youth for Justice,
which is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention. To access further information about the Teaching Youth
about the Law: National Training Institute and to register online,
visit www.youthforjustice.org/nti/home.html.
Additional information about Youth for Justice is available at www.youthforjustice.org/home.html.
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OJJDP/Correctional
Leadership Development training program
On May 16-26, 2006, in Longmont, CO, the National Institute of Corrections
(NIC) will conduct the OJJDP/Correctional Leadership Development
training program. During the 70-hour course, participants will focus
on their present practices as a means to develop and enhance leadership
skills needed in juvenile justice. The program, which uses an interactive,
experiential format, is designed as an intensive process to enhance
participants' ability to manage current and emerging challenges
effectively. There is no registration fee for this training, and
the cost of air travel, lodging, and meals are also covered. The
application deadline is February 24, 2006. To access additional
information about the OJJDP/Correctional Leadership Development
training program, including an application form, visit http://nicic.org/WebPage_291.htm.
Cost information is available at http://nicic.org/WebPage_236.htm.
Questions should be addressed to Leslie LeMaster, NIC, at 1-800-995-6429,
ext. 121.
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