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SFTS February 2006 Newsletter
SFTS NEWS
Safe from the Start, with funds from the U.S. DOJ, is offering a P.O.S.T. certified course entitled, "Children and Domestic
Violence: 8-hour Training for Criminal Justice Professionals." The course will be offered in 18 California locations over
the next three years. The goal of the course is to educate criminal justice professionals regarding the impact exposure to
domestic violence can have on a child's developing brain. Trainers will explore how the response, interaction, and interviewing
of these children can assist in prosecution and focus on trauma reduction to the child. The course is open to law enforcement
officers, parole agents, prosecutors, judges, and other criminal justice personnel.
For more information on the training, or to register, contact barbara.thorsen@sonoma.edu or arlene.shea@doj.ca.gov.
The first four trainings have been scheduled for:
March 27, 2006 in Santa Barbara
May 4, 2006 in Fairfield (Solano Co.)
May 18, 2006 in Napa
July 20, 2006 in Chico (Butte Co.)
SCHOOL READINESS INFORMATION
Voices for America's Children, a nonpartisan, national organization committed to speaking out for the well-being of children,
has produced a report entitled, "Translating School Readiness: How to Talk About Investing in Young Children." The report
discusses the importance of fostering early childhood development, research on the views of the public and policymakers, and
tips on how to talk about the need to invest in young children.
For more information, the full report is available at http://www.voicesforamericaschildren.org/Content/ContentGroups/Publications-Voices/ECE1/200515/TranslatingSchoolReadiness.pdf.
RELATED RESEARCH
Healthy Families New York (HFNY) is a community-based prevention program that provides intensive home visitation services to
improve the health and well being of children at risk for abuse and neglect. The program focuses on promoting positive parenting
skills, preventing child abuse and neglect, ensuring optimal prenatal care and child health and development, and increasing
parents' self-sufficiency. Evaluation results found that compared to the parents in the control group, parents served by HFNY
reported having engaged in significantly fewer acts of abuse and neglect of their children that were serious enough to have
potentially resulted in a substantiated CPS report.
For more information on HFNY, check out http://www.healthyfamiliesnewyork.org/.
For more information on evaluation findings, check out http://www.promisingpractices.net/program.asp?programid=147.
RELATED RESOURCES
Working with high-risk children and families can take a toll. Listening to children talk about the trauma, trying to work in
a complicated, frustrating and often insensitive system, or feeling helpless when trying to heal these children can make the
adults working with these children vulnerable to develop their own emotional or behavioral problems. Secondary trauma, burnout,
and compassion fatigue are all related to working in a resource-depleted system with overwhelmed families in overwhelming situations.
To learn more about secondary trauma, check out The Cost of Caring from the ChildTrauma Academy at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=9w8d6rbab.0.ia5m8rbab.yizwyrbab.46&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.childtrauma.org%2Fctamaterials%2FSecTrma2_03_v2.pdf.
On January 5, 2006 President Bush signed the reauthorized Violence Against Women Act, which serves to further the safety and
stability of the lives of survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. It includes a new
grant program for schools to address dating and domestic violence and sexual assault, and funding for intervention services
for young people who witness and experience violence in their lives.
For more information, check out http://www.vawa2005.org/.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The Mattel Children's Foundation is seeking applications for its Domestic Grants program. The Foundation's funding priorities
include: programs that creatively address a locally-defined need directly impacting children up to the age of 3; and programs
that align with Mattel's philanthropic priorities of health, education, and girls. Awards range between $5,000 and $25,000.
Applications must be submitted online through Mattel's Web site by April 7, 2006.
For more information, check out http://www.mattel.com/About_Us/Philanthropy/ci_mcf_philanthropy_grantmaking.asp.
The California Department of Education School Community Violence Prevention (SCVP) Program provides grants of up to $500,000
for a five-year period for school districts or county offices of education wishing to address school safety and violence
prevention issues. Applications are due by March 13, 2006.
For more information, check out http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r8/scvp05rfa.asp.
Ameriquest Mortgage Company is offering grant opportunities that encourage youth to develop an appreciation for community
service and teamwork by evaluating the needs of their programs and their neighborhoods. Through the Create Your Legacy
program, youth in participating after school programs are invited to create and submit a video that demonstrates how they
would invest $15,000 to improve their programs and neighborhoods. Submissions must be postmarked no later than March 31, 2006.
For more information, check out http://www.soaringdreams.org/sdprojects_legacy.html.
UPCOMING TRAINING AND CONFERENCES
The California Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC) will hold its Annual Training Conference featuring
keynote speaker Dr. Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D. on April 21-22, 2006 in Anaheim, CA. The conference features workshops on a
range of topics including “Confidentiality in the Child Care Setting,” and “Serving Young Children with Disabilities.”
For more information, check out http://www.caeyc.org/conference.asp.
Children's Institute, Inc. will hold its 5th National Forum - "In Harm's Way 2006: Preventing and Healing Childhood Trauma"
on May 4, 2006 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. This forum will bring together professionals from the broad spectrum
of child and family services to address child welfare, early childhood development, domestic violence, mental health,
substance abuse, and other issues.
For more information, check out http://www.childrensinstitute.org/training/.
UPCOMING SFTS TRAINING AND CONFERENCES
"Why Violence Needs to Stop"
Featuring Dr. Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
Location: Veteran's Hall, Hollister
Contact: Xiaodong Zhu (707) 284-9522 or xiaodong.zhu@sonoma.edu
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