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SFTS September 2002 News
We welcome the following new county contacts to the Safe from the Start project: John Siegal,
Trinity County; Karen Blinstrub, Santa Clara County; Nancy Madsen, Santa Barbara County; Tom
Corson, Kern County; and Sheri Manson, Calaveras County. We are down to only a few counties
without identified contacts. If you are from Inyo, Lake, Modoc, San Diego, Ventura or Yuba
County and would like to volunteer to be the connection between the Safe from the Start project
and local efforts in your county, please send an email to
sfts@doj.ca.gov.
Mark your calendars for the Butte County/Native American Safe from the Start forum to be held
on October 9, 2002 in Oroville. This local forum will feature a presentation by Dr. Linda
Chamberlain, Director of the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project, and will include a local
strategies panel featuring law enforcement, children's services, Native American services, and
behavioral health. A unique aspect of the day will be a "split-time" schedule with a 10 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. focus on key community, governmental, and tribal leaders and an evening program for
parents, child care providers, and community members. For more information on the Oroville event,
contact the Feather River Tribal Health Family Resource Center at (530) 534-5394, ext. 243. If
you are interested in coordinating a Safe from the Start forum in your county, check out
www.safefromthestart.org.
A new feature has been added to the Safe from the Start Web site: a slide shown presentation
featuring Dr. Bruce Perry, entitled Brain Organization and Function: A Brief Overview. In this
narrated slide presentation, Dr. Perry outlines the basic functions of the amazing organ that
makes us who we are - the human brain.
"Family Day-A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children" is a national effort to promote parental
engagement as a simple, effective way to reduce youth substance abuse risk and raise healthier
children. Family Day is meant to emphasize the importance of regular family activities as a way
to facilitate parent-child communication and encourage Americans to make family dinners a regular
feature of their lives. This year, Family Day will be held Thursday, September 23rd. If you
would like to find out more about Family Day, check out
www.casacolumbia.org.
TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
The NRC has released its Fall 2002 Workshop Schedule and it includes some great training
opportunities in the area of grant proposal development. These workshops include topics
like finding grant funding, how to research grant funding sources, and developing powerful
asset-based grant proposals. To find out more about the training available in your area,
check out
www.nonprofitresourcectr.org/work_offer.html.
The Foundation Center recently announced Proposal Writing Seminars in 14 major cities,
including Los Angeles and San Francisco, focusing on teaching the correct methods of good
proposal-writing. The seminars will be presided over by experts who will give an inside look
at how good grantwriting is accomplished, as well as looking at techniques, follow-through
procedures, and the art of fine-tuning a proposal.
For additional information on dates and registration information contact the Foundation
Center at 800-424-9836 or check out their Web site at
www.fdncenter.org/marketplace/.
FUNDING OPP0RTUNITIES
Here is some advice from grant expert Beverly Browning on writing a successful letter to a
corporation requesting a donation. She says your letter should be no more that three pages
long; 1-2 pages is preferable. You should also enclose a copy of your IRS determination
letter, your group's brochure, annual report and letters of support. Do not send a full
proposal or financial statement. For more tips like these, check out the Children and Youth
Funding Report at
www.cdpublications.com/pubs/childrenandyouthfunding.htm.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has approximately one
million dollars available for grants to support cooperative agreements to meet emerging mental
health services needs of communities. The program is designed to increase the capacity of
cities, counties, and tribal governments to provide prevention and early intervention services
for infants, toddlers, preschool and school-aged children and adolescents, in mental health
settings and other settings that serve children and adolescents, such as schools or child care
programs. The grants will help communities build the service system infrastructure necessary
to use evidence-based prevention and early intervention programs and services. For more
information, check out
www.samhsa.gov/funding/funding.html.
RESOURCES
The Nonprofit Resource Center has an extensive library of books and publications, which may
be of assistance to nonprofit personnel and board members. With a collection of over 1,800
books and periodicals covering all aspects of nonprofit management and fundraising, as well
as several databases, the Nonprofit Resource Center's Library is a unique resource. Purchase
a membership card for an annual fee of $20 and borrow all the materials you need.
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