Circles of San Antonio Community Coalition is a program of the San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse SACADA). This presentation was used during a new SACADA board member orientation.
This document discusses strategies for youth empowerment in Danville, Virginia. It begins by defining youth empowerment as inspiring, challenging, and equipping youth to take charge of their lives. Over 22% of Danville's population is youth under 18, but their abilities are often overlooked, causing economic, creative, and civic setbacks. The document outlines focusing on assessing youth needs and interests, designing empowerment strategies, and engaging youth in the community. It describes holding a youth summit that provided inspiration, leadership opportunities, and recruitment for a health collaborative. Feedback from youth called for mentoring programs, career opportunities, and support from adults. The document recommends specific youth empowerment models and continued youth summits to increase social connections and reduce
Juvenile Diversionary Programs in TexasAlaina Moeai
The document discusses juvenile diversion programs in Texas and their goals of redirecting youth offenders from the justice system through supervision and support services. It provides details about the statewide Community Youth Development (CYD) program and the local Tejano Center for Community Concerns Juvenile Justice Diversion Program in Houston. Both programs aim to prevent delinquency by providing services like academic support, life skills training, and family counseling. Research shows that diversion programs can reduce probation referrals and improve school performance when comprehensive services are provided by experienced caseworkers.
This document outlines an innovative planning framework for building collective impact to prevent child maltreatment. Key elements include establishing shared outcomes and indicators across agencies, identifying promising new strategies, and assisting communities to tailor plans to local strengths and needs. Input from a statewide parent survey and focus groups found that parents want accessible, nonjudgmental support for their diverse needs from basic resources to parenting skills. The framework aims to strengthen collaboration, align current investments, engage new partners, and encourage communities to creatively address unique challenges through a flexible yet integrated approach.
California’s Approach for Implementing the Federal Fostering Connections to Success Ac by Lindsay Elliott from
5.8 Ending Homelessness for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care at the 2014 National Conference on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness.
This document summarizes the hero's journey framework and how it can be applied to communities seeking social change. It describes a fellowship in Kitsap County, Washington that used collective impact principles to address adverse childhood experiences and build community philanthropy. Key events discussed include developing a theory of change, implementing a collaborative learning academy for non-profits, and efforts to integrate an understanding of ACEs into all aspects of the community through resilience-building. The story highlights the challenges of paradigm shifts and culture change required for long-term success in complex social issues.
Gloria Rockhold MA, M.Ed. - "Relationship-Building" The Corner Stone"youth_nex
Community Engagement Manager, Albemarle County Public Schools, Creciendo Juntos
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel - 2 "An Immigrant Paradox? Civic Engagement Among Immigrant & Undocumented Youth"
Undocumented and immigrant youth, particularly those from Hispanic/Latino backgrounds, face persistent marginalization in the United States, yet many of these same youth are actively engaged in their communities. Panelists will share their views on what engagement looks like, the challenges involved, and what we can do to support the civic engagement of undocumented and immigrant youth.
This document discusses strategies for youth empowerment in Danville, Virginia. It begins by defining youth empowerment as inspiring, challenging, and equipping youth to take charge of their lives. Over 22% of Danville's population is youth under 18, but their abilities are often overlooked, causing economic, creative, and civic setbacks. The document outlines focusing on assessing youth needs and interests, designing empowerment strategies, and engaging youth in the community. It describes holding a youth summit that provided inspiration, leadership opportunities, and recruitment for a health collaborative. Feedback from youth called for mentoring programs, career opportunities, and support from adults. The document recommends specific youth empowerment models and continued youth summits to increase social connections and reduce
Juvenile Diversionary Programs in TexasAlaina Moeai
The document discusses juvenile diversion programs in Texas and their goals of redirecting youth offenders from the justice system through supervision and support services. It provides details about the statewide Community Youth Development (CYD) program and the local Tejano Center for Community Concerns Juvenile Justice Diversion Program in Houston. Both programs aim to prevent delinquency by providing services like academic support, life skills training, and family counseling. Research shows that diversion programs can reduce probation referrals and improve school performance when comprehensive services are provided by experienced caseworkers.
This document outlines an innovative planning framework for building collective impact to prevent child maltreatment. Key elements include establishing shared outcomes and indicators across agencies, identifying promising new strategies, and assisting communities to tailor plans to local strengths and needs. Input from a statewide parent survey and focus groups found that parents want accessible, nonjudgmental support for their diverse needs from basic resources to parenting skills. The framework aims to strengthen collaboration, align current investments, engage new partners, and encourage communities to creatively address unique challenges through a flexible yet integrated approach.
California’s Approach for Implementing the Federal Fostering Connections to Success Ac by Lindsay Elliott from
5.8 Ending Homelessness for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care at the 2014 National Conference on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness.
This document summarizes the hero's journey framework and how it can be applied to communities seeking social change. It describes a fellowship in Kitsap County, Washington that used collective impact principles to address adverse childhood experiences and build community philanthropy. Key events discussed include developing a theory of change, implementing a collaborative learning academy for non-profits, and efforts to integrate an understanding of ACEs into all aspects of the community through resilience-building. The story highlights the challenges of paradigm shifts and culture change required for long-term success in complex social issues.
Gloria Rockhold MA, M.Ed. - "Relationship-Building" The Corner Stone"youth_nex
Community Engagement Manager, Albemarle County Public Schools, Creciendo Juntos
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel - 2 "An Immigrant Paradox? Civic Engagement Among Immigrant & Undocumented Youth"
Undocumented and immigrant youth, particularly those from Hispanic/Latino backgrounds, face persistent marginalization in the United States, yet many of these same youth are actively engaged in their communities. Panelists will share their views on what engagement looks like, the challenges involved, and what we can do to support the civic engagement of undocumented and immigrant youth.
The document summarizes plans to develop a suicide prevention mobile app for youth in San Diego County. It discusses research conducted on existing apps, input gathered from local schools and organizations, and plans to prototype and test an app that provides anonymous access to resources and coping mechanisms tailored for local youth. The goal is to help reduce suicide by giving young people easy access to support through an engaging platform they are likely to use. Moving the project forward will require funding an app developer.
The document discusses substance abuse prevention efforts of the Municipal Alliance Against Substance Abuse in Bernards Township. It provides data on substance use rates among township youth and aims to educate parents on the dangers of underage drinking through facts showing how early alcohol use can lead to problems. The Alliance promotes preventing early first use of substances and encourages community support for healthy alternatives to drug and alcohol use among youth.
Susana Martinez, LICSW - The Promotor Pathway: An Innovative Client Managemen...youth_nex
The LAYC's Promotor Pathway program aims to reconnect disengaged youth to services through long-term relationships with caring adults called Promotores. Promotores provide youth with individualized case management and support across educational, employment, housing, and health domains for 4-6 years. An evaluation found the program significantly improved school engagement, parenting rates, and access to safe housing for youth compared to other LAYC services.
Vickie Shoap - “Application of Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice ...youth_nex
Vickie Shoap -
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel 5 - RESTORING JUSTICE IN OUR SCHOOLS: POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES TO THE DISCIPLINE GAP
Youth of color are disproportionately suspended from school, causing youth to miss critical time of instruction, evoke feelings of hopelessness, and contributing to the “school to prison pipeline.” This panel considered what research and practice tell us about dismantling the pipeline and promoting positive developmental outcomes for youth of color with a focus on youth-centered principles of restorative justice.
Sarad Davenport - "Changing the Ecosystem to Support Youth of Color: The Prom...youth_nex
The City of Promise initiative aims to improve educational and developmental outcomes for children and youth in three Charlottesville neighborhoods through a cradle-to-college-and-career continuum of support programs. It is modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone and serves around 1,000 residents across 25 city blocks. The initiative has three main goals: academic achievement, positive youth development, and healthy development. It implements various programs in schools and the community to achieve these goals such as afterschool STEAM programs, parent empowerment programs, pathway coaching, mentoring, and partnerships to support health and wellness.
A presentation from Wilson Majee, Ph.D, MPH, from the University of Missouri, suggests a model for community health & wellness that seeks to bridge the poverty gap by making resources at a university available to those within the community.
Noelle Hurd, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Curry School of Education,University of Virginia
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development
Panel 1 - "Culturally-Grounded Approaches to Positive Youth Development"
Cultural beliefs, traditions, and pride can play an integral role in promoting positive development for youth from ethnic minority backgrounds. In this panel, we will hear about connections between cultural values and healthy development for American Indian youth, culturally-linked coping strategies among African American teens, and the benefits of emphasizing cultural pride in natural mentoring relationships.
This slide is for the Community Integration After TBI training for the WV TBI program at the Center for Excellence in Disabilities at West Virginia University.
The document discusses best practices for community investment programs. It recommends starting early to understand local needs, developing innovative solutions for social problems, and regularly measuring impact. Effective programs identify business objectives, minimize ad hoc activities, and align investments with project timelines. Programs are most successful when they involve local stakeholders, build local capacity, and empower communities through partnership and self-mobilization. Good processes are important, including choosing partners, setting objectives, monitoring progress, evaluating outcomes, and managing finances. Front-loading efforts and using a multi-strand strategy can help address both short and long-term needs in a community.
This document discusses the profession of social work and social service work in Canada. It outlines the various organizations that represent social workers and social service workers at international, national and provincial levels. These organizations work to regulate the profession, establish standards and advocate on behalf of their members. The document also describes social work and social service worker education programs in Ontario, typical job roles and responsibilities, employment prospects and characteristics of the occupation.
Check out the accompanying webcast here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQoM_lcMfI
Research tells us about the importance of friendships for adolescents. However many adolescent boys struggle to make and keep close friends. The HHS Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) and the federal Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs have developed a new video, “The Crisis of Connection for Adolescent Boys,” which underscores this struggle to connect and provides guidance on how to foster supportive friendships among adolescent boys. This is the first in a new TAG Talks video series created as part of the Adolescent Health: Think, Act, Grow® (TAG) call to action and is accompanied by discussion guides for professionals and families and additional resources.
In this webinar, speaker Shea Tanis, PhD, past-chair of the National Sibling Leadership Network, co-founder of Colorado Sibling Leadership Network Chapter - Sibling Tree, and Associate Director of the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities at the University of Colorado, discusses:
- The evolution of the sibling relationship across the lifespan and generations
- Collective Family Empowerment and the importance of future planning
- The changing landscape of disability programs and services with siblings as professionals, advocates, and caregivers
- The sibling movement and how you can support siblings
Anne Gregory, Ph.D. - “Engaging Students in Problem-Solving: A Civil Rights R...youth_nex
Anne Gregory, Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel 5 - RESTORING JUSTICE IN OUR SCHOOLS: POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES TO THE DISCIPLINE GAP
Youth of color are disproportionately suspended from school, causing youth to miss critical time of instruction, evoke feelings of hopelessness, and contributing to the “school to prison pipeline.” This panel considered what research and practice tell us about dismantling the pipeline and promoting positive developmental outcomes for youth of color with a focus on youth-centered principles of restorative justice.
Hazing is defined as any activity that recklessly endangers a student's mental or physical health, whether intended or not. Common hazing practices include alcohol consumption, humiliation, isolation, sleep deprivation, and sex acts. Since 1970, at least one hazing-related death occurs on a college campus each year, with 82% involving alcohol. While hazing is widespread, with over half of college students experiencing some form, 95% of hazed students and 25% of aware coaches/advisors do not report it. The document provides tips on how to stop hazing by taking responsibility, speaking up, making others aware, and not being a bystander. Contact information is given for reporting hazing at UNM.
Self-Directed Support in Scotland for people with mental health problems, 1 A...Rich Watts
This document discusses Self-Directed Support (SDS) for people with mental health problems. It summarizes evidence that SDS works by allowing over 70% of people to live independently and get the support they want with dignity and respect, and less than 10% report negative impacts. The document also discusses how SDS can be made to work through adequate funding, promotion, clear referral processes, and understanding that personalization affects staff and services as well as those receiving support.
This document discusses social service work with individuals and families. It covers types of service users including voluntary and involuntary clients. Social service work involves creating helping relationships to effect positive changes through improved self-esteem, social functioning, problem solving and analysis. Theories are used to help understand issues. Critical self-reflection is important for social workers to understand how their own identities are shaped. The document also discusses working with families, covering family types and common stages of independence, coupling, parenting, launching children, and retirement. Statistics on families in Canada from 2006 are presented on topics like marriage trends, lone parent families, and implications.
This document discusses treating violence as a public health issue and contagious disease. It summarizes the Cure Violence approach, which aims to interrupt transmission of violence through detecting and interrupting conflicts, treating those at highest risk, and changing group and community norms. The approach identifies violence hot spots and highest risk individuals. It employs "credible messengers" from communities to de-escalate conflicts and change social norms. Evaluations found the Cure Violence model reduced shootings and killings in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and New York City.
Community Development - Building a Healthy Community - by Abid JanAbid Jan
This document provides an overview of community development. It defines community development as a grassroots process where communities organize, plan, develop healthy options, empower themselves, and achieve social, economic, cultural and environmental goals. It discusses principles of community development including taking a long-term approach, focusing on community assets, and empowering community members. The document also outlines the role of community developers in supporting communities and the relationship between community development and social determinants of health. Finally, it presents a community development framework for bringing stakeholders together to coordinate plans to address community needs.
Interactive NETS*S Workshop, ISTE 2011arowland1313
This document summarizes a presentation about exploring the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S) through case studies and sharing resources and project ideas. The presentation covered 6 projects aligned with the NETS*S standards that involved students using technology for creativity, communication, research, problem-solving, digital citizenship, and understanding technology operations. Attendees participated in activities to make quick connections, shared strategies for implementing project-based learning, and reflected on overcoming barriers to PBL in the classroom.
The document summarizes plans to develop a suicide prevention mobile app for youth in San Diego County. It discusses research conducted on existing apps, input gathered from local schools and organizations, and plans to prototype and test an app that provides anonymous access to resources and coping mechanisms tailored for local youth. The goal is to help reduce suicide by giving young people easy access to support through an engaging platform they are likely to use. Moving the project forward will require funding an app developer.
The document discusses substance abuse prevention efforts of the Municipal Alliance Against Substance Abuse in Bernards Township. It provides data on substance use rates among township youth and aims to educate parents on the dangers of underage drinking through facts showing how early alcohol use can lead to problems. The Alliance promotes preventing early first use of substances and encourages community support for healthy alternatives to drug and alcohol use among youth.
Susana Martinez, LICSW - The Promotor Pathway: An Innovative Client Managemen...youth_nex
The LAYC's Promotor Pathway program aims to reconnect disengaged youth to services through long-term relationships with caring adults called Promotores. Promotores provide youth with individualized case management and support across educational, employment, housing, and health domains for 4-6 years. An evaluation found the program significantly improved school engagement, parenting rates, and access to safe housing for youth compared to other LAYC services.
Vickie Shoap - “Application of Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice ...youth_nex
Vickie Shoap -
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel 5 - RESTORING JUSTICE IN OUR SCHOOLS: POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES TO THE DISCIPLINE GAP
Youth of color are disproportionately suspended from school, causing youth to miss critical time of instruction, evoke feelings of hopelessness, and contributing to the “school to prison pipeline.” This panel considered what research and practice tell us about dismantling the pipeline and promoting positive developmental outcomes for youth of color with a focus on youth-centered principles of restorative justice.
Sarad Davenport - "Changing the Ecosystem to Support Youth of Color: The Prom...youth_nex
The City of Promise initiative aims to improve educational and developmental outcomes for children and youth in three Charlottesville neighborhoods through a cradle-to-college-and-career continuum of support programs. It is modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone and serves around 1,000 residents across 25 city blocks. The initiative has three main goals: academic achievement, positive youth development, and healthy development. It implements various programs in schools and the community to achieve these goals such as afterschool STEAM programs, parent empowerment programs, pathway coaching, mentoring, and partnerships to support health and wellness.
A presentation from Wilson Majee, Ph.D, MPH, from the University of Missouri, suggests a model for community health & wellness that seeks to bridge the poverty gap by making resources at a university available to those within the community.
Noelle Hurd, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Curry School of Education,University of Virginia
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development
Panel 1 - "Culturally-Grounded Approaches to Positive Youth Development"
Cultural beliefs, traditions, and pride can play an integral role in promoting positive development for youth from ethnic minority backgrounds. In this panel, we will hear about connections between cultural values and healthy development for American Indian youth, culturally-linked coping strategies among African American teens, and the benefits of emphasizing cultural pride in natural mentoring relationships.
This slide is for the Community Integration After TBI training for the WV TBI program at the Center for Excellence in Disabilities at West Virginia University.
The document discusses best practices for community investment programs. It recommends starting early to understand local needs, developing innovative solutions for social problems, and regularly measuring impact. Effective programs identify business objectives, minimize ad hoc activities, and align investments with project timelines. Programs are most successful when they involve local stakeholders, build local capacity, and empower communities through partnership and self-mobilization. Good processes are important, including choosing partners, setting objectives, monitoring progress, evaluating outcomes, and managing finances. Front-loading efforts and using a multi-strand strategy can help address both short and long-term needs in a community.
This document discusses the profession of social work and social service work in Canada. It outlines the various organizations that represent social workers and social service workers at international, national and provincial levels. These organizations work to regulate the profession, establish standards and advocate on behalf of their members. The document also describes social work and social service worker education programs in Ontario, typical job roles and responsibilities, employment prospects and characteristics of the occupation.
Check out the accompanying webcast here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQoM_lcMfI
Research tells us about the importance of friendships for adolescents. However many adolescent boys struggle to make and keep close friends. The HHS Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) and the federal Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs have developed a new video, “The Crisis of Connection for Adolescent Boys,” which underscores this struggle to connect and provides guidance on how to foster supportive friendships among adolescent boys. This is the first in a new TAG Talks video series created as part of the Adolescent Health: Think, Act, Grow® (TAG) call to action and is accompanied by discussion guides for professionals and families and additional resources.
In this webinar, speaker Shea Tanis, PhD, past-chair of the National Sibling Leadership Network, co-founder of Colorado Sibling Leadership Network Chapter - Sibling Tree, and Associate Director of the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities at the University of Colorado, discusses:
- The evolution of the sibling relationship across the lifespan and generations
- Collective Family Empowerment and the importance of future planning
- The changing landscape of disability programs and services with siblings as professionals, advocates, and caregivers
- The sibling movement and how you can support siblings
Anne Gregory, Ph.D. - “Engaging Students in Problem-Solving: A Civil Rights R...youth_nex
Anne Gregory, Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel 5 - RESTORING JUSTICE IN OUR SCHOOLS: POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES TO THE DISCIPLINE GAP
Youth of color are disproportionately suspended from school, causing youth to miss critical time of instruction, evoke feelings of hopelessness, and contributing to the “school to prison pipeline.” This panel considered what research and practice tell us about dismantling the pipeline and promoting positive developmental outcomes for youth of color with a focus on youth-centered principles of restorative justice.
Hazing is defined as any activity that recklessly endangers a student's mental or physical health, whether intended or not. Common hazing practices include alcohol consumption, humiliation, isolation, sleep deprivation, and sex acts. Since 1970, at least one hazing-related death occurs on a college campus each year, with 82% involving alcohol. While hazing is widespread, with over half of college students experiencing some form, 95% of hazed students and 25% of aware coaches/advisors do not report it. The document provides tips on how to stop hazing by taking responsibility, speaking up, making others aware, and not being a bystander. Contact information is given for reporting hazing at UNM.
Self-Directed Support in Scotland for people with mental health problems, 1 A...Rich Watts
This document discusses Self-Directed Support (SDS) for people with mental health problems. It summarizes evidence that SDS works by allowing over 70% of people to live independently and get the support they want with dignity and respect, and less than 10% report negative impacts. The document also discusses how SDS can be made to work through adequate funding, promotion, clear referral processes, and understanding that personalization affects staff and services as well as those receiving support.
This document discusses social service work with individuals and families. It covers types of service users including voluntary and involuntary clients. Social service work involves creating helping relationships to effect positive changes through improved self-esteem, social functioning, problem solving and analysis. Theories are used to help understand issues. Critical self-reflection is important for social workers to understand how their own identities are shaped. The document also discusses working with families, covering family types and common stages of independence, coupling, parenting, launching children, and retirement. Statistics on families in Canada from 2006 are presented on topics like marriage trends, lone parent families, and implications.
This document discusses treating violence as a public health issue and contagious disease. It summarizes the Cure Violence approach, which aims to interrupt transmission of violence through detecting and interrupting conflicts, treating those at highest risk, and changing group and community norms. The approach identifies violence hot spots and highest risk individuals. It employs "credible messengers" from communities to de-escalate conflicts and change social norms. Evaluations found the Cure Violence model reduced shootings and killings in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and New York City.
Community Development - Building a Healthy Community - by Abid JanAbid Jan
This document provides an overview of community development. It defines community development as a grassroots process where communities organize, plan, develop healthy options, empower themselves, and achieve social, economic, cultural and environmental goals. It discusses principles of community development including taking a long-term approach, focusing on community assets, and empowering community members. The document also outlines the role of community developers in supporting communities and the relationship between community development and social determinants of health. Finally, it presents a community development framework for bringing stakeholders together to coordinate plans to address community needs.
Interactive NETS*S Workshop, ISTE 2011arowland1313
This document summarizes a presentation about exploring the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S) through case studies and sharing resources and project ideas. The presentation covered 6 projects aligned with the NETS*S standards that involved students using technology for creativity, communication, research, problem-solving, digital citizenship, and understanding technology operations. Attendees participated in activities to make quick connections, shared strategies for implementing project-based learning, and reflected on overcoming barriers to PBL in the classroom.
This short document contains 3 brief sections - "Test page", "second page", and "video". It appears to be testing different types of content or pages but provides little other context or details.
This document discusses openness and reproducibility in computational science. It begins with an introduction and background on the challenges of analyzing non-model organisms. It then describes the goals and challenges of shotgun sequencing analysis, including assembly, counting, and variant calling. It emphasizes the need for efficient data structures, algorithms, and cloud-based analysis to handle large datasets. The document advocates for open science practices like publishing code, data, and analyses to ensure reproducibility of computational results.
- The document discusses key considerations for implementing a successful identity management project using Oracle Identity Management, including planning adequately, focusing on business value, addressing data quality, and providing strong project management.
- It emphasizes the importance of getting buy-in from all stakeholders, understanding dependencies between components, and thoroughly testing any integration with other directory services.
- Operational challenges like backup/recovery, high availability, and troubleshooting are also covered, along with deployment and cloning considerations like password synchronization across environments.
The document provides step-by-step instructions for making a video using Windows Movie Maker. It details how to import video and image files, adjust clips, add audio, include titles and credits, and then save and export the finished video file. The instructions guide the user through the entire movie making process within the Windows Movie Maker application.
The document describes the enrollment and survey tools used for a mentoring program. It includes:
- A student application and parent consent form to enroll students in the program.
- A pre-survey given to students to collect data on their supportive relationships, school engagement, attitudes, and coping strategies. This information helps tailor the program to individual students' needs.
- Post-surveys are also given to students, mentors, and parents to provide feedback on the program and identify areas for improvement.
- Example questions are provided for each category in the pre-survey to assess students' relationships, engagement, behaviors, and ways of coping.
Lloyd Pierre-Louis presented "2015 Ohio Ballot Issues" to the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission on October 27, 2015.
The presentation discussed important issues on the ballot for Ohio voters.
Martijn Steger, Vinita Bahri-Mehra and Martin G. Hu (Boss & Young) presented "Doing Business Internationally: Implications for Corporate Counsel" on February 23, 2006, for the Association of Corporate Counsel.
The presentation focused on the methods of conducting business internationally, special considerations in international agreements and recent legal developments in different global markets.
IT-ondernemer Piet van Vugt gooide tijdens zijn keynotepresentatie de knuppel in het hoenderhoek. In zijn visie zal het niet lang meer duren of iedereen betrekt zijn bedrijfssoftware uit de cloud. Dat geldt volgens hem ook voor Warehouse Management Systemen (WMS).
"Het is een kwestie van tijd voordat zich een leverancier uit China of India aandient die hier de markt in rap tempo komt veroveren. Het enige dat hen hier nu nog van weerhoudt is onze ingewikkelde wetgeving maar dat zal niet blijven duren."
Gewaagde suggestie: een standaard WMS-pakket
Als de WMS-leveranciers, die in grote getalen op de WMS-dag aanwezig zijn, de boot niet willen missen zullen ze hun software snel cloud-fähig moet maken, benadrukt Van Vugt, die als directeur van IT-dienstverlener Nobel zelf ook WMS-software levert.
Omdat snelheid is geboden doet hij daarbij een gewaagde suggestie: "Waarom maken we niet met z'n allen één standaard WMS-pakket. Van alle functionaliteit die we bieden is zeventig procent immers toch hetzelfde. Iedere leverancier kan zich vervolgens richten op die andere dertig procent waarmee zij zich echt onderscheiden ten opzichte van hun concurrenten, bijvoorbeeld met branchespecifieke business apps."
This document discusses issues with reproducibility in bioinformatics research and proposes standards to address it. It notes examples where requested data or code was unavailable after publication. It argues that journals should require availability of unpublished software and data for reviewers to replicate results. A proposal is made for an open review standard and website where reviewers can optionally assess reproducibility and generate a summary for their review. The goal is to improve transparency and code quality through peer incentives rather than mandates.
The crew of seven voyaging canoes observed the health of the Pacific Ocean over two years. Teone Sciascia sailed on the waka Haunui from Fiji to the Solomon Islands. He observed plastic rubbish and bits of wood floating far from land, indicating pollution problems. Near islands, he saw more trash and dead sharks floating at sea. The observations from the fleet suggest the ocean's health is declining and immediate changes are needed to protect it.
This document summarizes recent developments in lawyer discipline and criminal conduct from 2014. It discusses several cases of lawyers who were disciplined or suspended for felony convictions related to offenses such as filing false tax returns, forgery, and theft. It also discusses cases of judges who received criminal convictions. The document outlines the process for interim suspension of lawyers and notes several lawyers who received interim suspension in 2014 for felonies. It identifies factors courts consider when determining sanctions and provides examples of sanctions imposed in 2014. Finally, it discusses some ethics issues that are particularly relevant to in-house counsel.
A blind boy was sitting with a hat, holding a sign asking for money. A man changed the sign to say "Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it". This attracted more donations. The man explained that he simply wrote the truth in a different way. Both signs noted the boy was blind, but the second sign emphasized he couldn't enjoy the beauty that others could see, eliciting more help. This story teaches us to appreciate what we have, help others who have less, and that there is always a better way to approach things if we think differently.
A coalition brings together various community and government sectors to develop and carry out strategies to impact the whole community on issues like substance abuse. The document discusses data from surveys that show high rates of underage drinking and binge drinking among youth. It provides definitions of binge drinking and notes that younger adolescents reach risky blood alcohol levels from fewer drinks. The document advocates for environmental strategies and policy changes to restrict alcohol availability and marketing to reduce substance abuse problems in communities. These include policies around retail outlets, taxes, advertising, and server training.
The symposium brought together preventionists and stakeholders to discuss problem gambling prevention efforts and plan for the future. Panelists discussed what is currently being done well in areas like needs assessment, capacity building, and programming. They also identified needs such as improved evaluation, research, and data sharing. The National Council on Problem Gambling was asked to provide more support to prevention efforts through a dedicated staff person, clearinghouse, and conference track on prevention.
This document summarizes the work of the Circles of San Antonio Community Coalition in reducing underage drinking. It discusses the coalition's formation in 1998, funding sources, target areas and populations. Key strategies discussed include social host ordinances, alcohol outlet density reduction, and increasing alcohol taxes. The coalition brings together various sectors to develop and implement strategies with community-wide impact.
This video is part of the Adolescent Health: Think, Act, Grow℠ (TAG) webinar series on successful strategies for improving adolescent health. Suzanne Elder shares information about Chicago's youth-focused agenda.
The document outlines 10 steps for developing and implementing a social host ordinance to address underage drinking: 1) develop a policy statement, 2) engage enforcement, 3) collect data, 4) make the case, 5) draft policy language, 6) use media advocacy, 7) mobilize support, 8) get the policy adopted, 9) ensure enforcement, and 10) evaluate effectiveness. It provides guidance and examples for each step, including developing a power analysis, framing the issue for media and decision-makers, and ensuring community support throughout the process.
Public Health Approach to Youth Violence PreventionCourtney Bartlett
Local health departments can play a key role in preventing youth violence by implementing a public health approach. This approach involves 4 strategic steps: 1) defining the local youth violence problem through data analysis, 2) identifying risk and protective factors, 3) selecting, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based prevention strategies, and 4) ensuring broader adoption of successful strategies. The public health approach addresses individual, relationship, community, and societal factors contributing to youth violence and aims to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors through a range of universal, selective, and indicated interventions. It is an iterative process that regularly reexamines data and strategies and adapts them as community needs change over time.
Connect the Dots: Building a Movement for Children and Families -- Project LA...Jim McKay
This document discusses building a social movement to promote protective factors for children and families. It provides examples of how individuals, community organizations, and policymakers can collectively work to connect actions that strengthen families. This includes faith-based organizations promoting protective factors, a community dashboard to track outcomes, and advocating for policies that reduce senior poverty through programs like Social Security and Medicare. The overall goal is for diverse stakeholders to take coordinated actions and measure shared outcomes to achieve greater impact in supporting children and families.
H. daniels duncan consulting abcd and community partnerships 08 06 2013hddabcd
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The document discusses services provided by Matt Talbot Services for drug and alcohol treatment of young people. It summarizes the challenges of working with adolescents and emphasizes building therapeutic relationships and tailoring treatment to individual needs. Treatment programs aim to engage and retain young people through a holistic, multidisciplinary approach incorporating counseling, education, activities and family support.
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This document outlines strategies for enacting and enforcing a social host ordinance to reduce underage drinking. It begins by explaining the 10 steps to advocate for a social host policy, including developing statements, collecting data, drafting language, and ensuring enforcement. It then provides details of San Antonio's social host ordinance and outcomes of media advocacy campaigns from 2013-2019 to promote the policy, such as numerous news stories, PSAs, and radio interviews. The document concludes by discussing future opportunities to continue raising awareness about the social host ordinance.
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2. Circles of San Antonio
Community Coalition
The coalition’s mission is to create change
through collaboration with community
stakeholders to educate and motivate
individuals, families, organizations and
institutions with the goal of preventing and
reducing alcohol and substance abuse.
3. Coalition Member of the Year 2012
Maricela Morales, Bexar County Juvenile
Probation
5. How do we as a
community or as a
coalition make the
desired change?
6. How coalitions operate
1. Analyzing Information About the Problem,
Goals, and Factors Affecting Them
1. Analyzing Information About the Problem,
Goals, and Factors Affecting Them
1. Analyzing Information About the Problem,
Goals, and Factors Affecting Them
1. Analyzing Information About the Problem,
Goals, and Factors Affecting Them
2. Establishing Vision and Mission
2. Establishing Vision and Mission
2. Establishing Vision and Mission
2. Establishing Vision and Mission
3. Defining Organizational Structure
and Operating Mechanisms
3. Defining Organizational Structure
and Operating Mechanisms
3. Defining Organizational Structure
and Operating Mechanisms
3. Defining Organizational Structure
and Operating Mechanisms
5. Developing and Using
Strategic and Action Plans
8. Developing and Using
Strategic and Action Plans
5. Developing and Using
Strategic and Action Plans
8. Developing and Using
Strategic and Action Plans
6. Arranging Resources for
Community Mobilization
6. Arranging Resources for
Community Mobilization
6. Arranging Resources for
Community Mobilization
6. Arranging Resources for
Community Mobilization
7. Developing Leadership
5. Developing Leadership
7. Developing Leadership
5. Developing Leadership
8. Implementing Effective
Interventions
9. Implementing Effective
Interventions
8. Implementing Effective
Interventions
9. Implementing Effective
Interventions
9. Assuring
4. Assuring Technical Assistance
9. Assuring
4. Assuring Technical Assistance
10. Documenting Progress and
Using Feedback
12. Documenting Progress and
Using Feedback
10. Documenting Progress and
Using Feedback
12. Documenting Progress and
Using Feedback
11. Making Outcomes Matter
11. Making Outcomes Matter
11. Making Outcomes Matter
11. Making Outcomes Matter
12. Sustaining the Work
10. Sustaining the Work
12. Sustaining the Work
10. Sustaining the Work
A. AssessmentA. Assessment
B. CapacityB. Capacity
D. ImplementationD. Implementation
C. PlanningC. Planning
E. EvaluationE. Evaluation
4. Developing a framework or
model of change
7. Developing a framework or
model of change
4. Developing a framework or
model of change
7. Developing a framework or
model of change
1Best processes identified through a literature review conducted by
Dr. Renee Boothroyd, University of Kansas – used with
permission.
Best Processes1 for Implementing
the Strategic Prevention
Framework
7. Seven Strategies
for Community Change
1. Providing Information
2. Enhancing Skills
3. Providing Support
4. Enhancing/ Reducing Access
5. Changing Consequences
6. Physical Design
7. Modifying/Changing Policies
8. Bexar County
Youth and Young Adults
Age Range 2010 Census
Under 5 years old 130,087
5-9 years old 130,307
10-14 years old 128,117
15-19 years old 132,660
20-24 years old 133,455
total
654,626
9. Seven Strategies
for Community Change
1. Providing Information
2. Enhancing Skills
3. Providing Support
4. Enhancing/ Reducing Access
5. Changing Consequences
6. Physical Design
7. Modifying/Changing Policies
Education/ Awareness
(Individual Strategies)
Environmental
Strategies
(Entire
Community)
11. What Are
Developmental Assets?
Building Blocks for Raising
Healthy Children and Youth
Background—Grounded in extensive
research in youth
development, resiliency, and
prevention, the
Developmental Assets represent the
relationships, opportunities, and
personal qualities that young people
need to avoid risks and to thrive.
http://www.search-institute.org/
12. #4 Caring Neighborhood
#5 Caring School Climate
#8 Youth as resources
#9 Service to others
#13 Neighborhood boundaries
#14 Adult Role Models
#17 Creative Activities
#18 Youth Programs
13. #21 Achievement Motivation
#26 Caring
#27 Equity and Social Justice
#28 Integrity
#29 Honesty
#30 Responsibility
#32 Planning and decision making
#35 Resistance Skills
#39 Sense of Purpose
19. Environmental Strategies
• Incorporate prevention efforts that affect the entire
population
• Identify a community problem
• Implement proven cost effective strategies producing
widespread behavior changes in community norms,
structures, systems, and policies
• Lead to long term outcomes in reducing substance use
and abuse
20. Problem: Under-age Drinking
• Average age of first alcohol use >12 years old
• 61% of youth reported having used alcohol
• Early onset of alcohol consumption leads to misuse and
dependence
• Alcohol use is seen as a right of passage
• Teens and young adults (under 21) report that they get
access to and consume alcohol in social settings such as
parties, friends, peers, family
• 63% of secondary students
• 78% of college students
21. Under-age Drinking Parties
• Parties are high risk settings for binge drinking and
consequences associated drinking
• Alcohol provided free or at low cost
• Often unsupervised; sometimes with parental/adult
permission
• Increased risk for DUI/DWI, riding with drunk
driver, sexual assault, violence, injuries, vandalism
23. Under-age Drinking Parties
• “UTSA Police Sergeant Geoffrey Merritt said the key to keeping crime rates
down is stopping underage drinking.”
24. Social Host Accountability
• Social Host
• An individual who provides alcohol to minors in a home or other
private property and/or is the “responsible party” of a social setting
where underage drinking occurs
• Accountability
• Hold the responsible persons accountable
• Educating and developing Community Advocates
• Report underage drinking parties to law enforcement
• Educate the public on the costs and dangers of underage drinking
• Advocate for Social Host Accountability
Social Host Forum – Friday, June 14, 2013
27. Zero Alcohol for Youth Campaign
• A youth led, youth driven, adult supported community-
wide campaign to promote awareness and
implementation of Texas’ Zero Tolerance law on youth
alcohol use.
• Teaches youth to be community advocates
• Utilizes youth in community engagement, and
environmental strategy process
Zero Alcohol for Youth training
Saturday, June 1, 2013
29. Zero Alcohol for Youth Campaign
When parents “make deals” with youth, or allow their
children to drink as long as they promise not to drink and
drive, youth are more likely to drink in other places not
typically supervised by adults (like parties), to drive after
drinking, or ride with a driver that has been drinking. Youth
get the message from adults that underage drinking isn’t so
bad.
30. What can you do to help?
Act as a
Community
Lifeguard
Report underage
drinking parties to
law enforcement
Work to Reduce
Access to Alcohol
in Your Own Home
Be a
Spokesperson
Educate the public
on the costs and
dangers of
underage drinking
Advocate for Social
Host Accountability
Join our
Coalition
Help your
community build
awareness
Learn about other
strategies that are
effective at
reducing underage
drinking
31. CONTACT US!
Vickie Adams
Boyd Baxter
coalition@sacada.org
Office - 210-225-4741
sacada.org
www.Facebook.com/Circlesofsa
You’re an essential piece!
Spread the word about what is being done in
your community and get daily updates on the
issues through our social networking pages
Editor's Notes
The coalition members are a collection of various talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Our members are concerned members of the community, representing law enforcement, education, youth, corporate America, among many others. We believe the more diverse the coalition, the higher chance we have being successful in achieving our goals and fairly representing every sector of the community. Shelah Simmons is our Coalition Chairperson. Shelah is a local business owner and has been actively involved with our coalition since 2008. She average 10-15 hours per month on coalition work. We have made great strides in making sure the coalition chair is the spokesperson for the coalition because the more Shelah is in the public eye as a volunteer coalition chair the more we are likely to attract more community members to join the coalition. Shelah guides the coalition members though our strategic vision and plan with Boyd and myself assisting the coalition with grant requirements, administrative function and as salesmen. Shelah was unavailable to attend today and sends her regards. On behalf of Shelah we want to thank the board for their dedication to SACADA and in turn the coalition. We would like each one of you to become spokespersons for the coalition in addition to SACADA. We want you to join our sales team. Daniel Pink says today selling is about persistence, empathy, and sharing of information.
The Coalition is funded by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The annual budget is 150,000. We have 2.25 staff on this grant. Boyd and a portion of Charles our data analyst. A coalition is a vehicle for bringing together various community and government sectors to develop and carry out strategies that have an impact on the whole community.
First you need to know what the problem is. Does San Antonio have a problem with alcohol or drugs?We have a underage drinking problem in San Antonio. 60% of youth have tried alcohol
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How many can we reach? Do we wait till they start drinking, smoking to tell them to stop? How many red ribbons can we hand out? 654,626 If 60 % tried and we want that to be lowered. Do we target the 76 k?
Substance abuse prevention usually follows one of two basic approaches—behavioral, which focuses on individuals’ behavior, or environmental, which focuses on communities and attempts to change the environment that supports substance abuse.But research has shown that education alone is often ineffective. Programs that try to persuade students not to use alcohol by arousing fear do not work, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Instead, emphasizing the dangers of alcohol may attract adolescents who are risk-takers. Another approach to preventing underage drinking and drug use at any age seeks to change the environment that supports substance abuse. While education is included, these programs primarily look to change the factors that influence people to abuse mind-altering substances, such as easy access to alcohol and the failure to penalize illegal drug use. Environmental interventions include:Building support for public policies that reduce access to alcohol, illegal drugs and other mind-altering substances.Creating community coalitions to develop local solutions to reducing access.Using the media to highlight the problem of substance abuse and build support for community-based solutions.
No longer think of “just say no” to drugs
Since its creation in 1990, Search Institute’s framework of Developmental Assets has become the most widely used approach to positive youth development in the United States.Background—Grounded in extensive research in youth development, resiliency, and prevention, the Developmental Assets represent the relationships, opportunities, and personal qualities that young people need to avoid risks and to thrive.The Power of Assets—Studies of more than 2.2 million young people in the United States consistently show that the more assets young people have, the less likely they are to engage in a wide range of high-risk behaviors (see table below) and the more likely they are to thrive. Assets have power for all young people, regardless of their gender, economic status, family, or race/ethnicity. Furthermore, levels of assets are better predictors of high-risk involvement and thriving than poverty or being from a single-parent family
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Prevention Day at the Capitol February 2013Educating community members about underage drinking, training them how to speak to elected officials, practice these skills and then going with them to witness.Goal is many voices with the same message
Next time we present to the board we will cover our other strategy: Increasing the Alcohol Excise Tax. We have two years for the next legislative session. We will also cover advocacy vs. lobbying. We will be hosting a alcohol excise tax forum in the fall. We would like you to attend so you are ready in the 84th legislative session to talk to elected officials about excise tax as a prevention measure.