ED’s OSHS PREVENTION NEWS DIGEST Office of Safe and Healthy Students FEBRUARY 16, 2012 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 7 | |
In This Issue 1. U.S. ED OESE/OSHS’ REMS Technical Assistance Center Presents Emergency School Preparedness Webinar on February 28, 2012 2. U.S.ED OESE/OSHS’ Higher Education Center Presents Webinar on “Using New Student Orientation to Prevent Violence Against Women on College Campuses” 3. HHS and Other Federal Agencies Present Two Upcoming Webinars on Teen Dating Violence Prevention 4. U.S. Department of Justice Launches Website To Improve Outcomes for At-Risk and Delinquent Girls 5. New Study Finds Quitting Smoking Leads to Immediate Health Benefits for Young Adults 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. 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The collective use of NIMS across all local incident response agencies, including K-12 schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs), and disciplines creates a common operating picture, promoting mutual goals and responsibilities, and ultimately, more efficient and effective response services. Developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2003 in the wake of the 9/11 World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks, the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which includes the Incident Command System (ICS), is a standardized emergency response system used by all first responders to coordinate response efforts before, during and after an emergency. In 2005, NIMS was mandated for adoption by all entities receiving federal preparedness funds, including grantees. Because all schools and IHEs are integral components of every community and its government, regardless of whether they are recipients of Federal preparedness funds, DHS and ED recommend all schools and IHEs implement NIMS. This one-and-a-half-hour webinar will focus on the implementation of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command Structure (ICS) as it pertains to K-12 schools and school districts. The webinar will present information about the key elements of NIMS, training for key personnel, ICS roles for schools, and examples of how districts and schools can implement NIMS/ICS. The webinar will be presented by Bob Spears, Director of Emergency Services with the Los Angeles (CA) Unified School District's Office of Emergency Services. Participants will learn about NIMS as a comprehensive, national approach to incident management that is applicable to all jurisdictional levels and across functional disciplines. Specifically, this webinar is intended to help participants: -Understand the basic elements of the Safe School Plan. -Gain awareness of the Incident Command Structure (ICS) principles, terminology, and implementation. -Learn multiple strategies for effective emergency exercises and training. -Engage in an interactive scenario. This webinar may also assist schools in the identification of key personnel to receive training based on their roles and responsibilities. Additionally, this course highlights the importance of aligning key staff with appropriate ICS roles and responsibilities and the need to provide adequate training at the appropriate level of NIMS/ICS for their sector or department. Click here to register: http://rems.ed.gov/index.php?page=training_webinars Source: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center, Office of Safe and Healthy Students, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education U.S. ED OESE/OSHS’ Higher Education Center Presents Webinar on “Using New Student Orientation to Prevent Violence Against Women on College Campuses” The U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention announces an upcoming Webinar: Using New Student Orientation to Prevent Violence Against Women on College Campuses, Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m. ET. Presenters include Rocco L. “Chip” Capraro, Ph.D. of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Shelly Rutz Maxwell, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. of University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. The facilitator will be Linda Langford, Sc.D., Associate Center Director at the Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention. This Webinar will provide examples of how campuses can use new student orientation as an entry point to a linked series of prevention efforts addressing violence against women across the school year and throughout the college experience. Two campus prevention practitioners will share their programs. Examples will include (1) one campus’ sexual violence prevention initiative that starts with orientation and builds deliberately over the first two years on campus; and (2) a second campus that addresses violence against women both separately and as part of an overall health and wellness campaign that starts with orientation. The presenters will provide an overview of their violence against women overall programs, describe how their orientation programs serve as an initial kickoff, and discuss how they overcame barriers to coordinating orientation with other violence against women programs.
Source: Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention, U.S. Department of Education HHS and Other Federal Agencies Present Two Upcoming Webinars on Teen Dating Violence Prevention Several federal agencies in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be presenting webinars focusing on Teen Dating Violence Prevention. The first webinar, under the leadership of agencies within HHS entitled Teen Dating Violence and Reproductive Coercion: Innovative Opportunities for Programs and Partnerships Webinar is scheduled for Monday, February 27, 2012, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST. This webinar is coordinated by HHS’ Administration on Children, Youth and Families’ Divisions of Family Violence Prevention and Adolescent Development and Support, Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Women’s Health and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health’s Office of Adolescent Health. The presenter will be Rebecca Levenson, Senior Policy Analyst, Futures Without Violence formerly the Family Violence Prevention Fund. In this session, the presenter will give an overview of the research on violence and its impact on health and will offer promising programs on how to respond and promote healthy relationships. Specific clinic based interventions will be featured as well as strategies for adapting these tools for community and school based settings. Presenters will also offer strategies and resources on how to collaborate with domestic/sexual violence programs in ways that better support the staff in your program and provide stronger linkages to help young women exposed to domestic violence. Tools and resources for health care providers, perinatal and community based programs will also be shared. Who should attend: Organizations working with youth in community, clinic and school-based settings, tribes and tribal organizations, health care providers, domestic violence agencies, teen pregnancy prevention programs and HIV/AIDS providers. To register for this webinar visit: http://bwjp.ilinc.com/register/bfzkkwk. The second webinar, entitled “Teen Dating Violence Intervention and Prevention: A Look at Dating Matters and Shifting Boundaries is scheduled for Wednesday, February 29, 2012 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, EST. Co-coordinators for this webinar include several agencies under HHS, including the Family Violence Prevention Services Program, Administration on Children, Youth and Families; Division of Violence Prevention and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other federal agencies who are co-coordinating the webinar include the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice; Office of Safe and Healthy Students, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education and the Federal Interagency Workgroup on Teen Dating Violence. Presenters for the webinar include Andra Tharp, Ph.D., Division of Violence Prevention, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Nan D. Stein, Ed. D., Center for Research on Women, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, and Bruce Taylor, Ph.D., NORC at the University of Chicago. This session will present an overview of teen dating violence. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will share its comprehensive teen dating violence prevention initiative based on the current evidence about what works in prevention. Dating Matters™ focuses on 11– to 14–year–olds in high-risk, urban communities. The second part of the session will present the results of an experimental evaluation of a youth dating violence prevention program in New York City middle schools, called Shifting Boundaries which contains curriculum classroom lessons and school-wide interventions. Who should attend: Organizations working with youth in schools and communities, Tribes and tribal organizations and domestic violence agencies. To register for this webinar visit: http://bwjp.ilinc.com/register/vkmzjth For more information on both webinars Rebecca K. Odor, (202) 205-7746 or [log in to unmask] Source: Federal Interagency Workgroup on Teen Dating Violence U.S. Department of Justice Launches Website To Improve Outcomes for At-Risk and Delinquent Girls The U.S. Department of Justice announces a new resource—the National Girls Institute website—to better meet the needs of at-risk and delinquent girls, their families and the agencies and organizations that serve them. The institute is supported by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) through a grant from the Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). “We have a responsibility to educate professionals and the public about what programs work to keep girls safe and out of trouble,” said Melodee Hanes, Acting Administrator of OJJDP. “This website is an important step forward in our efforts to improve the lives of girls across the country.” OJJDP established the National Girls Institute in 2010 to develop and provide a range of training, technical assistance and other resources to local, tribal and private organizations serving girls and young women in, or at risk of entering, the juvenile justice system. Through this website, professionals can submit requests for training and technical assistance, as well as find current information about best practices, gender-responsive tools, research and related events. “The National Girls Institute website is a critical resource for the public to learn about research, practical tools and best practices specific to the issues surrounding girls and young women with experiences in the juvenile justice system,” said Dr. Lawanda Ravoira, Director of the NCCD Center for Girls and Young Women. “The website will be a dynamic way to share timely information about the urgent needs of girls, as well as giving girls, their parents and caregivers practical resources. Most importantly, the website provides a vehicle for bringing girls’ issues to the forefront, so we can effect positive change.” Visit the website at www.nationalgirlsinstitute.org. For more information about OJJDP research and programs related to girls in the juvenile justice system, visit www.ojjdp.gov/programs/girlsdelinquency.html. Read the full release at http://ojp.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/2012/ojppr020812.pdf. Source: Office of Justice Program, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice New Study Finds Quitting Smoking Leads to Immediate Health Benefits for Young Adults A new study finds that young adults who quit smoking have substantially fewer respiratory symptoms, especially coughing, after just two weeks. The study included 327 college students between 18 and 24 years old. They took part in programs to motivate them to quit smoking. HealthDay reports that more than half of the students smoked five to 10 cigarettes daily, and had smoked for between one and five years. Students who quit smoking for two weeks reported substantially less coughing and other respiratory symptoms, compared with students who continued to smoke. The study appears in the journal Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology. “That the benefit of stopping smoking starts in days to weeks—not years or decades—is important. Now health care providers can counsel young smokers that their breathing can feel better soon after they stop. This can help to motivate young adults to stop smoking before the severe damage is done,” said Harold Farber, MD, editor of the journal, said in a news release. For more information, visit http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ped.2011.0097 Source: JT Daily News, Partnerships at Drugfree.org |