ED’s OSHS PREVENTION NEWS DIGEST Office of Safe and Healthy Students MARCH 9, 2012 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 10 | |
In This Issue 1. White House LGBT Conference on Safe Schools & Communities to be Held in Arlington, Texas; Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett to Attend 2. HHS Secretary Sebelius and Cartoon Network to Attend Premiere of Speak Up, a Documentary about Bullying 3. Attorney General Urges Professionals To Take Action on Children’s Exposure To Violence 4. U.S. Department of Justice, OJP’s OJJDP To Host Data Collection and Analysis Webinar 5. Study Finds Young Adults Who Don’t Smoke or Drink Heavily Help Reduce Risk of Heart Disease 6. Funding Opportunities -William T. Grant Foundation: Grant for Understanding the Acquisition, Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy & Practice -Corporation for National & Community Service: September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance Funding -The Corning Incorporated Foundation: Educational, Cultural, and Community Service Grants 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 | White House LGBT Conference on Safe Schools & Communities to be Held in Arlington, Texas; Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett to Attend The White House LGBT Conference on Safe Schools & Communities will be held in Arlington, Texas on Tuesday, March 20th and will feature remarks by Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. and White House Senior Advisor Valerie B. Jarrett. The conference will be hosted by the White House Office of Public Engagement and the U.S. Department of Justice in partnership with the University of Texas at Arlington. Participants will receive important updates from senior administration officials from the Departments of Justice and Education and have the opportunity to learn about Federal government resources and opportunities through workshop sessions. The White House LGBT Conference on Safe Schools & Communities is part of a series of conferences that will be held around the country specifically focused on LGBT Americans. From February to June 2012, OPE will convene these White House LGBT Conferences to provide grassroots leaders, community organizers, advocates, students, and interested citizens an opportunity to hear directly from the Administration on our efforts to ensure health, well-being, security, justice, and equality for LGBT Americans. The White House LGBT Conference on Health was held in Philadelphia on Thursday, February 16th. The White House LGBT Conference on Housing & Homelessness will be held in Detroit on Friday, March 9th. Future Conferences will be held in other locations throughout the country and focus on topics including, but not limited to, Aging, HIV/AIDS, Families, and International Human Rights. Additional details, including media access, about the White House LGBT Conference on Safe Schools & Communities will be released later. Source: U.S. Department of Justice HHS Secretary Sebelius and Cartoon Network COO Snyder to Attend the Premiere of Speak Up, a Documentary about Bullying On March 14, 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Cartoon Network President and COO Stuart Snyder for the national premiere of Speak Up, the first documentary from Cartoon Network’s Stop Bullying: Speak Up initiative. Secretary Sebelius and Mr. Snyder will join the 6th-8th grade classes of Stuart-Hobson Middle School located at 410 E Street, NE, in Washington, DC for the premiere, which is scheduled from 2:00 pm until 3:00 p.m. ET. Special guests that will also be in attendance include Dr. Duane Thomas, a bullying prevention expert; Aaron Cheese, a youth featured in Speak Up and participants from the Project Change, a youth program based in Montgomery County, Maryland. Stop Bullying: Speak Up seeks to empower all kids to take part in helping to bring an end to bullying. To RSVP, email [log in to unmask]. For more information about the program visit StopBullyingSpeakUp.com Source: Widmeyer Communications and StopBullyingSpeakUp.com Attorney General Urges Professionals To Take Action on Children’s Exposure To Violence The Attorney General’s Defending Childhood Initiative has launched a new Web page to support professionals in their efforts to address children’s exposure to violence. The Web page, “Take Action To Protect Children,” provides online resources, tips, hotline numbers, and a personal call to action tailored for professionals in various fields who work with children who experience or witness violence. Attorney General Holder launched Defending Childhood in September 2010 to unify the Department of Justice’s efforts to mitigate children’s exposure to violence under one initiative. For more information, visit http://1.usa.gov/wk0YUP For more information about the Defending Childhood Initiative, visit www.justice.gov/defendingchildhood Source: JUVJUST E-newsletter, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention OJJDP To Host Data Collection and Analysis Webinar On March 22, 2012, at 2 p.m. E.T., the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will host the final Webinar in the series “Assessing Project Performance: Building Blocks of Evaluation and Performance Measurement.” The presentation will explain processes associated with data collection and analysis, including techniques to ensure that data collection is both uniform and systematic. Panelists will also discuss strategies for presenting the results of program data analysis and the internal and external usefulness of program data for improvement and sustainability. Registration is available online. For more information about the Webinar and to register, go to http://bit.ly/ojjdpwebinar Study Finds Young Adults Who Don’t Smoke or Drink Heavily Help Reduce Risk of Heart Disease Young adults who avoid smoking and heavy drinking, and who eat a healthy diet, exercise and stay lean, reduce their risk of developing heart disease when they reach middle age, a new study indicates. The study of more than 3,000 participants found that when their average age was 24, almost 44 percent had a low risk of heart disease. By age 44, only 24.5 percent had a low risk of heart disease, UPI reports. The researchers found that 60 percent of people who were able to maintain all five healthy lifestyles had a low risk of heart disease by the time they reached middle age, compared with fewer than 5 percent of those who followed none of the healthy lifestyles. “The problem is few adults can maintain ideal cardiovascular health factors as they age,” researcher Kiang Liu of the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago said in a statement. “Many middle-age adults develop unhealthy diets, gain weight and aren’t as physically active. Such lifestyles, of course, lead to high blood pressure and cholesterol, diabetes and elevated cardiovascular risk.” He noted that the study found even people with a family history of heart problems were able to have a low risk of heart disease if they started living a healthy lifestyle when they were young. The results are published in the journal Circulation. Source: JT Daily News: Join Together at The Partnership at Drugfree.org Funding Opportunities Understanding the Acquisition, Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice Deadline: April 3, 2012 and August 1, 2012 September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance Funding Educational, Cultural, and Community Service Grants
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