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SFTS January 2003 News
SFTS co-sponsored a one-day forum in Marin County with Dr. Linda Chamberlain presenting on the impact of violence on a child’s developing brain. In addition, the PACT program, a collaboration between Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and mental health, was featured, along with a home visitation program. Approximately 125 people attended this event.
SFTS training and technical assistance (T&TA) is available through your County Contact. For a list of SFTS County Contacts call Craig Pierini at (916) 322-2956 or check out our Web site at www.safefromthestart.org.
RESEARCH
Child Trends reviewed more than 1,100 rigorous research studies to determine the factors and programs that can help teens succeed. Their findings provide essential information to parents, service providers and policy makers who work with teens. This Research Brief pulls together the key findings across this research to determine the factors, programs, and approaches that contribute to positive adolescent development.
Grading Grown-Ups 2002: How do American kids and adults relate?
contains new findings from a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults and youth. These findings reveal agreement about some fundamental priorities for youth-adult relationships, as well as some eye-opening input on how and why adults are dropping the ball. They suggest that adults and teens in the United States have more in common than some might imagine—at least in terms of their attitudes about how the generations should connect.
For more information, check out www.search-institute.org/norms/.
RESOURCES
“Choices for Youth: A Public Education Campaign to Prevent Violence Against Youth” recently released its California Youth Violence Prevention Scorecard. The Scorecard is an analysis of youth safety and resources in California’s 15 largest counties, which comprise 83 percent of the state’s youth population, ages 10-17. The Scorecard looks first at youth safety, and secondly reviews how communities are using their state and federal funding resources to provide choices for youth, such as crime prevention, after-school programs, job training and mentoring programs.
For more information, check out www.preventviolence.org/download/Score11_8.pdf.
Teen Central is an online summit for youth that seeks to answer the question, “What’s it like being a teen today?” Resources and links for teens vary from fact-based research to message boards where youth can post their thoughts and tell stories about anything or simply respond to others.
For more information, check out www.teencentral.net
Geena Takes Aim is a Web site that encourages girls and their parents to act against gender discrimination in sports. This site, sponsored by award-winning archer and actress Geena Davis, champions female athleticism and provides helpful links on coaching, parental involvement and information on federal Title IX rules concerning gender equity in sports.
For more information, check out
www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/issues/geena/index.html.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Youth Service America is recruiting 50 organizations across the United States to serve as local lead agencies for National Youth Service Day (NYSD) 2003. NYSD is the largest service event in the world, engaging millions of young Americans and focusing national attention on the amazing leadership of young people. The application is open to schools, student councils, community and faith-based organizations, service commissions, public agencies and non-profit organizations.
For more information, check out www.ysa.org/nysd.
The Staples Foundation for Learning offers grants for job-training and education programs for disadvantaged youth. Non-profit organizations that are focused on education and job training are eligible.
For more information, check out www.staplesfoundation.org.
TRAINING
The Nonprofit Resource Center (NRC) is offering training in finding grant funding. This training is an introduction to researching potential funders using FC Search and other computer databases. The free, two-hour orientation will show you how to develop an effective search strategy and teach you the basics of using FC Search, the Foundation Center’s computerized database of over 65,000 grantmakers. If you cannot attend this orientation, given every Wednesday in Sacramento, the NRC has a self-guided tutorial available.
For more information on reducing children's exposure to violence, go to www.safefromthestart.org or call the Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center at (916) 324-7863.
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