Grantee Vignettes
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A Day in the Life of a School Resource Officer As America’s attention turns to th |
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Adapting an Evidence Based Intervention: Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) Harrisburg has both a SS/HS and a TCE (Prevention/Early Intervention) grant. |
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Adapting Olweus for an After-School Program The YWCA of York, Pennsylvania, bolstered their community’s bullying and violence prevention efforts by adding the Olweus Bullying Prevention program to its after-school programming. |
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Building and Leveraging Social Capital All communities possess both risk factors and strengths. All too frequently, programs focus predominantly on the risk factors. |
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Building Trust with Immigrant Families A Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) project in Washington State is overcoming barriers to providing mental health services to immigrant children and families in a rural community. |
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Creating a Cohesive Implementation Team The Puget Sound Educational Service District (ESD) set the stage early in their grant to create a sustainable coalition of diverse partners. |
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Deterring Gang Involvement The towns served by South Carolina’s School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties have traditionally been bedroom communities for the city of Columbia. |
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Embracing Diversity What happens when a community's longstanding demographics change? Does the change affect a student and/or school staff's perceptions, attitudes and beliefs about diversity? |
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Leveraging Partnerships in West Chicago SS/HS initiatives are funded to help establish a comprehensive system of services for youth and their families. |
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On the FAST Track: Helping Youth to Succeed by Building Family and Community Relationships Latino Health Access in Santa Ana, California, recipient of a SAMHSA Youth Violence Prevention grant, is currently implementing the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program. |
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Parent Involvement Research tells us that successful prevention and intervention programs require the active participation of parents. |
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Rural Collaborative Creates Cohesive Network Despite Distances It's not an easy task to serve the needs of rural communities spread out over broad stretches of land. |
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Strategic Use of Evaluation Think evaluation is best saved for measuring outcomes? |
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Sustainability Planning Right From the Start Not only is the Utica (New York) Safe Schools Healthy Students Partnership going strong one year after its Federal funding ended, but 32 of the 35 programs initiated under the Federal grant are still operating. |
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Using a Survey to Promote Collaboration, Solve Problems, and Sustain Your Program Activities The Lamoille North Safe Schools/Healthy Students project in Hyde Park, Vermont used a "perception survey" to identify and solve problems, reinforce the working relationship upon which an effective |
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Using the Media to Generate Program Support In Russellville, Arkansas, parents, policymakers, and the community know quite a bit about the SS/HS program because of articles in Russelville's newspaper – the Courier. |
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Working with Law Enforcement and Juvenile Justice After Columbine in 1999, police agencies took a long hard look at how they respond to that kind of incident –an active shooter situation. |
