ED’s OSHS PREVENTION NEWS DIGEST Office of Safe and Healthy Students MAY 11, 2012 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 18 | |
In This Issue 1. U.S. ED OESE/OSHS’ Safe and Supportive Schools Announces TA Center Announces Its Next Webinar Event, Implementing New Programs—The Impact of Current Practice, on 5/23/12 and 5/24/12 2. U.S. ED OESE/OSHS’ Safe and Supportive Schools TA Center Announces New Website Feature, Voices from the Field 3. HHS/NIH Releases College Drinking Fact Sheet 4. HHS/SAMHSA National Underage Drinking Prevention Day Webcast, May 21, at 1:00 p.m. EDT 5. American School Health Association Requests Nominations for Outstanding School Nurse Achievement Award 6. Funding Opportunities The opinions expressed herein may not reflect the views of the Office of Safe and Healthy Students or the U.S. Department of Education. The availability of information from a variety of sources does not constitute and should not be considered as an endorsement of those sources by the U.S. Department of Education. We hope that you find this information to be useful. If you think ED’s OSHS PREVENTION NEWS DIGEST would be helpful to a friend or colleague, please send them to this website to: self-enroll, change information, or unsubscribe. Contact Us: If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me at: Sharon Burton Editor | U.S. ED OESE/OSHS’ Safe and Supportive Schools TA Center Announces Its Next Webinar Event, Implementing New Programs—The Impact of Current Practice, on 5/23/12 and 5/24/12 The Safe and Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center (SSSTA), supported by the Office of Safe and Healthy Students in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, announces its next Implementation Webinar Series event, “Implementing New Programs—The Impact of Current Practice.” It will be offered twice to accommodate schedules: Session 1: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 4:00 pm − 5:30 pm Eastern Time; Session 2: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 11:00 am − 12:30 pm Eastern Time. When schools assess the programs and practices they have in place to improve school climate, new programmatic efforts are sometimes implemented to address a school’s needs and strengths. The selection of new programs can be well intended and positively influenced by data collection, current practice and organizational realities. However, current practices and organizational realities can also impede the implementation process. Dr. Sara Truebridge, education consultant and researcher with an expertise in resilience and educational reform, will explore the “delicate dance” that can be required when new programs are inserted into existing organizational realities. It also will feature related work by Wisconsin’s Safe and Supportive Schools grant program. As a result of participating in this session, participants will be able to: -Identify practices, policies and organizational conditions that impede adoption of new programs AND those that enhance new program implementation; -Describe steps to prepare school staff and adjust organizational structures to allow for effective implementation of new programs within the existing environment; and -Identify key policy and leadership tasks to more effectively meld existing practices with new programmatic directions. Audience: This Webinar is appropriate for school district superintendents and allied staff, school administrators, school climate teams, school improvement teams, student support personnel and any staff engaged in leading change. To participate, please register for one of the sessions at http://bit.ly/ssswebinar. Those who successfully register will receive an e-mail confirmation from the SSSTA. Information on how to connect to each Webinar will be sent to those who register. However, since space is limited, please register now! U.S. ED OESE/OSHS’ Safe and Supportive Schools TA Center Announces New Website Feature, Voices from the Field The Safe and Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center (SSSTA), supported by the Office of Safe and Healthy Students in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, announces its new webinar related feature on the Safe and Supportive Schools website called Voices from the Field: http://bit.ly/sssvoices Voices from the Field provides administrators, teachers, school support staff, community, and family members a place to voice what they think and are doing to make your school(s) safe and supportive. Specifically, on Voices from the Field you can share what you think by responding to a polling question, see what others think by viewing the poll’s results, see what experts think by reading a short post that includes references and related resources, and share your experiences by posting comments on safe and supportive schools topics. Voices from the Field is updated with a new topic each month and all topics are archived for future reference. The topic for this month is focused on implementing school climate improvements which will also be addresses in this month’s Webinar. We look forward to hearing from the field on how school climate improvements are being implemented! NOTE: If the organization you work for has a Website, you can post the Voices from the Field widget on it so your constituents can share what they think, see what experts think and share their experiences in making schools safe and supportive. A widget is a dynamic web application that includes a graphic that can link from your Website to the Voices from the Field page and updates automatically each month. To post the Voices from the Field widget on your Website, simply click on “share this widget” from the Voices from the Field box on the Safe and Supportive Schools home page: http://safesupportiveschools.ed.gov/index.php?id=01, choose which graphical image you prefer, copy the respective html code and work with your web administrator to enter the code into your Website. For more information on the Webinar or assistance in posting the Voices from the Field widget on your Website, email [log in to unmask]. HHS/NIH Releases College Drinking Fact Sheet The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has published a new resource, College Drinking, with information about the consequences of abusive college drinking, factors affecting student drinking, and how to address college drinking. NIAAA, a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency in the United States for research on alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and other health effects of alcohol. HHS/SAMHSA National Underage Drinking Prevention Day Webcast, May 21, at 1:00 p.m. EDT On May 21, 2012, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EDT, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention will host Getting to Outcomes in Underage Drinking Prevention a live, interactive Webcast about communities that are using Town Hall Meetings to engage individuals and organizations in achieving measurable outcomes through of the use of evidence-based environmental prevention. A panel of national, State, and local activists will discuss approaches that are working to prevent and reduce underage alcohol use and its consequences and will respond to questions and comments from online participants. This Webcast supports SAMHSA’s National Prevention Week<http://www.samhsa.gov/preventionweek/> from May 21 to 26, 2012. Monday, May 21, is Underage Drinking Prevention Day. American School Health Association Requests Nominations for Outstanding School Nurse Achievement Award The School Nurse Section of the American School Health Association (ASHA) is accepting nominations for the Outstanding School Nurse Achievement Award. Nominations are due by May 22, 2012. The 2012 Outstanding School Nurse Achievement AWARD will be announced and presented at the 86th Annual ASHA School Health Conference, October 10-13, 2012 in San Antonio, Texas. Criteria for nominations include the following: 1. Demonstration of professional competence and expertise, which results in significant contribution to school nursing. 2. Demonstration of leadership in school nursing. 3. Active involvement in a professional organization that emphasizes school nursing. 4. Demonstration of involvement with community health care providers in supporting and promoting school health programs. 5. 5 years of full-time experience in school nursing. 6. Preference will be given to current members of ASHA. 7. Include three letters of professional recommendations. In addition to the above 7 points, nominations must also include a resume (maximum of 2 pages). ASHA is requesting that the school nurse nominee assist in completing this application process by addressing the requirements of this application so that all the criteria are addressed. . Send nominations to: American School Health Association, 4340 East West Highway, Suite 403, Bethesda, MD 20814. The Nomination Deadline is May 22, 2012. If you have questions, contact Cheryl Smoot, ASHA, School Nurse Section, Chair-Elect at 651 201-3631 or [log in to unmask]us Source: CHEN, the Comprehensive Health Education Network Funding Opportunities School Grants for Healthy Kids Deadline: May 18, 2012 (Extended Deadline)
Source: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Get Ur Good On Grants Source: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Healthy Community Grants Source: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Grants for Youth Source: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools CVS Caremark Community Grants Deadline: October 31, 201 Source: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Parent-Child Education Program Grants Deadline: October 15, 2012 Source: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools |