FSCA NEWS

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By MANDY BOURGEOIS Daily Light staff writer

Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:11 PM CDT

Bullying is not a new thing.

From toddlers to senior citizens, people are met with bullies at every stage in life. However, for teenagers, bullying can become rabid during those awkward years of trying to find oneself while also being accepted by peers.

http://www.waxahachiedailylight.com/articles/2007/05/30/dailylight/news/04-05-30-bullying.txt

Youth Development Center/Clemson University -- Field Instructor (Aiken, SC)
The Field Instructor will conduct activities at a 400 acre camp for children who have been termed status offenders (status offenses are things such as truancy, behavior problems, breaking of school policies). He or she will schedule and supervise youth activities and provide teaching and crisis intervention services while serving as a treatment team member. For more information please visit http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/SiteIndex/AssetViewer/view?asset=Job
&asset-id=221637-324&keywords=student&keywords=health&sid=92623431-129-yye

More Attention Urged to Substance Abuse by Teen Girls
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) said today that judging by the number of adolescents admitted for treatment of substance abuse disorders, girls are increasingly using drugs, including alcohol and inhalants, and are more likely than boys to have co-occurring psychiatric disorders.
http://www.healthinschools.org/2007/may24_alert.asp

High Schools in Florida, Texas, and Virginia Win 2007 Inspiration Awards
Three high schools received a 2007 College Board Inspiration Award for improving their academic environment and helping students achieve equitable access to higher education despite social, economic, and cultural challenges. Each school won a $25,000 award, which was presented at ceremonies held at the schools. Another four schools each received an honorable mention and $1,000 to apply toward programs that encourage students to apply to college.

"They're setting a great example for other schools—proving that hard work and high expectations help students succeed," U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said of the winners. The Inspiration Awards recognize high schools that initiate programs and create partnerships among teachers, parents, community organizations, and local businesses to help more students prepare for and be admitted to college.

The 2007 winners are Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia; G.W. Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, Texas; and Stranahan High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For details about the schools, read the College Board press release. Watch for application details in the fall.

http://news.com.com/Tracking+an+online+trend,+and+a+route+to+suicide/2100-1028_3-6185950.html

From their nondescript sixth-floor office, Kim Hee-joo and five other social workers troll the Internet to combat a disturbing trend in South Korea: people using the Web to trade tips about suicide and, in some cases, to form suicide pacts.

Newsweek’s annual list of the nation’s Top 100 High School has been released.
Florida leads the United States with 22 high schools! Congratulations to Stanton College Prep, Jacksonville, and Suncoast Community, Rivera Beach, for their recognition in the Top 5!  Seven of Florida’s high schools were in the Top 25 and twelve in the Top 50! In all, 13 of Florida’s school districts were represented on the list: Alachua (2), Brevard (1), Miami-Dade (3), Duval (2), Escambia (1), Hillsborough (3), Lee (1), Orange (1), Palm Beach (2), Pinellas (2), St. Johns (1), St. Lucie (1), and Volusia (1).
 
The complete list is available online at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18757087/site/newsweek/

ASCA School Counselor of the Year Program

Nominate a School Counselor Today! If you know an exemplary school counselor, then ASCA wants to hear about it. ASCA’s School Counselor of the Year program honors the best of the best – school counselors who are running a top-notch, comprehensive school counseling program at either the elementary, middle or high school level.
 
This newly enhanced program brings 10 finalists and their nominators on an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C., in February 2008, where they will participate in high-level discussions about education trends, tour Washington, D.C., and be honored at a black-tie awards ceremony. From these 10 finalists, one school counselor of the year will be selected and announced at the awards ceremony. Nominees must be U.S.-based practicing school counselors as of February 2008.

Nominate an outstanding school counselor today. Nominations are due Sept. 14, 2007.

School Counselor of the Year Process and Timeline

Nomination period open through Sept. 14, 2007.
School counselors may be nominated by their principals, school board members, superintendents, parents, state school counseling associations or others. Nominations reviewed to ensure they meet eligibility requirements.

Sept. 17–21, 2007
Nominated school counselors contacted by ASCA and sent an extensive application packet for them to fill out if they'd like to continue with the process. Application requires resume, letters of recommendations, examples of program activities and response to an ASCA-generated essay question.

Oct. 31, 2007
Application packet due from nominated school counselors.

November 2007
Judges review, discuss and score application packets submitted by nominees.

Dec. 3–7, 2007
Finalists announced

Jan. 31–Feb. 3, 2008
School Counselor of the Year Weekend in Washington, D.C.

See links at left for ASCA's other awards programs.

Free Drug Prevention Booklet: To help keep teens drug-free, the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) developed "Keeping Your Teens Drug-Free: A Guide for African American Parents and Caregivers." This booklet is designed to give parents, grandparents, school coaches, mentors and anyone who works with young people tips for talking to them about drugs. The booklet and shipping costs are free. Minimum order of 100 booklets. To order, contact Abby Jones.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/ps-sct051507.php

Public release date: 15-May-2007


Contact: Amitabh Avasthi
axa47@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State

Saliva clue to chronic bullying

Hormones in children's saliva may be a biological indicator of the trauma kids undergo when they are chronically bullied by peers, according to researchers who say biological markers can aid in the early recognition and intervention of long-term psychological effects on youth.

"Bullying is mainly self-reported either by students or observed by teachers," said JoLynn V. Carney, associate professor of counselor education at Penn State.

Carney and Richard Hazler, professor of counselor education at Penn State, looked at the hormone cortisol in students' saliva to evaluate its validity as a reliable biomarker in assessing effects of precursors to bullying. In humans, this hormone is responsible for regulating various behavioral traits such as the fight-flight response and immune activity that are connected to sensory acuity and aspects of learning and memory.

"A lot of kids suffer in silence. When you hear of school shootings, or students who commit suicide as reaction to chronic peer abuse, those are kids who are not coping with the abuse by seeking appropriate support," said Carney. "They keep their anger and frustration within and fantasize either how they are going to escape the abuse through suicide or how they are going to get revenge on their abusers."

When a person senses a threat, the cortisol level spikes and learning and memory functions are negatively impacted, Carney said. The body basically focuses the bulk of its attention on surviving the threat. The longer such a spike continues, the more damage it can do to various aspects of a person's physical, social, and emotional health.

However, when a person undergoes a lengthy period of stress similar to the chronic bullying experience, researchers have found less than normal cortisol reactions that are related to a decreased sensitivity to stress, a sort of numbing or desensitizing effect.

This hypocortisol finding, Hazler noted, has serious physical and psychological implications for kids – both victim and bystander. Research with adults exposed to repeated stressful events has linked hypocortisol with conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pelvic pain, and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Penn State researchers tested the saliva of 94 sixth grade students between ages 9-14, along with a questionnaire on their experience on being bullied or watching someone being bullied, and additional measures of anxiety and trauma.

Since cortisol has a predictable daily pattern of highest levels in early morning and declining levels throughout the day, researchers collected samples of saliva when the students first arrived at school and then again before lunch.

"Lunchtime is one of those less supervised periods when kids are more likely to be bullied. One of the things we are trying to measure is not the reaction immediately following a bullying event, but instead the anticipatory anxiety that takes place with the approach of situations where bullying is more commonly occurs. Even kids who are not bullied suffer from such anticipatory stress because they anticipate watching their friends getting bullied and worry that they might be next," said Hazler.

"It is this anxiety that we believe is most dangerous because that anxiety stays with you. It is not dependent on the bullying happening on a continual basis," he added.

Results from the study suggest that while bullying is directly linked to trauma and anxiety, it is indirectly linked to cortisol levels.

"This confirms our theory that while exposure to a one-time or very rare bullying episode might cause higher cortisol levels, exposure to bullying on a chronic basis would be associated with hypocortisol levels," said Carney and Hazler who recently presented their findings at the American Counseling Association Convention in Detroit.

The Penn State researchers liken their research on bullying to the study of depression, which used to be solely about psychiatric observations and behavioral tests until researchers began to find biological changes.

"All of a sudden depression was not simply a psychological phenomenon, but it also has a physical aspect with potential medication treatments to support counseling," they noted.

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/sfri-awh051007.php

Public release date: 17-May-2007


Contact: Andrea Browning
abrowning@srcd.org
202-289-7905
Society for Research in Child Development

Adolescents with high-risk sexual attitudes attract peers with similar attitudes

High-risk sexual behavior in adolescents appears to be influenced by the sexual attitudes of peers, and young people select friends whose attitudes about sex are consistent with their own attitudes. These are the conclusions of a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and published in the May/June 2007 issue of the journal Child Development.

The study addressed issues of peer influence. Researchers sought to determine how adolescents come to resemble their peers in risky attitudes and behaviors, attempting to learn whether they are encouraged by peers to adopt certain behaviors or gravitate toward others with similar attitudes and behaviors. They also examined the role of peer attitudes in the development of high-risk behaviors.

The study analyzed data on 1,350 15- to 18-year-old male and female students taking part in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationwide study of individual, peer, family, school, and community factors related to health. High-risk sexual behavior was defined by the number of partners with whom adolescents had intercourse without a condom, since having multiple sex partners without using condoms puts adolescents at risk for contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The researchers also constructed a measure of attitudes about the undesirable consequences of sex. These measures of sexual behavior and attitudes, from individual adolescents and their friends, were compared over time.

Some of the study's findings showed that peers influence adolescent attitudes and behavior. Adolescents whose friends had intercourse without a condom were more likely to have intercourse without a condom the following year. Those whose friends believed that sex had undesirable consequences were likely to change attitudes to be similar to those of their friends, and were less likely to have intercourse without a condom the following year. The effect of friends' attitudes on sexual behavior was stronger for females than for males.

Other findings showed that adolescents choose new friends with attitudes that are similar to their own. Teens who believed that sex had undesirable consequences were likely to choose new friends and retain existing friends with similar attitudes. This occurred to a similar extent in males and females, but occurred less often among Hispanic adolescents than among non-Hispanic white and African American adolescents.

"This study has two implications for prevention," according to David B. Henry, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the study's lead author. "First, it supports the use of adolescent leaders for preventive interventions. Second, it suggests that interventions that use attitude change to change behavior may be more effective among females than among males."

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The study was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Summarized from Child Development, Vol. 78, Issue 3, Peer Selection and Socialization Effects on Adolescent Intercourse without a Condom and Attitudes about the Costs of Sex by Henry, DB, Schoeny, ME, Deptula, DP, and Slavick, JT (University of Illinois at Chicago). Copyright 2007 The Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. All rights reserved.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/sfri-tms051007.php

Public release date: 17-May-2007


Contact: Andrea Browning
abrowning@srcd.org
202-289-7905
Society for Research in Child Development

Teaching mediation skills to parents helps siblings resolve conflicts

Children whose parents were trained in mediation skills had better conflict-resolution skills than those whose parents did not receive training. That's the finding of a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and published in the May/June 2007 issue of the journal Child Development.

The study examined the effects of parents' mediation of sibling conflicts on children's conflict understanding and resolution skills. Mediation is a conflict management technique in which a neutral third party (in this case, the parent) intervenes in a conflict to help the people in the dispute reach a mutually satisfactory solution.

The researchers looked at 48 families with sibling pairs between the ages of 5 and 10. Parents were asked to record on daily checklists all conflicts in which they intervened. Half of the parents (the mediation group) were trained in the use of mediation and asked to use this training in their children's disputes; the other half (the control group) were asked to intervene as they normally would when disputes arose. This phase of the research lasted approximately two months, or until parents had recorded at least five sibling conflicts in which they intervened.

The researchers found that children whose parents had mediated their disputes had more sophisticated conflict-resolution skills at the end of the study than did families in the untrained group. Conflicts that arose at home were resolved more positively in the mediation group, according to the parents' reports, in that children behaved more constructively, the conflicts were resolved more equitably, and the children were more involved in resolving the disputes.

Children's independent conflict negotiations also differed between the two groups. The children in the mediation group used some mediation techniques in their discussions (e.g., setting ground rules and identifying issues), while the children in the control group used more contentious strategies (e.g., accusing siblings and demanding justifications).

In terms of children's skills in taking others' perspectives, children in the mediation group were better able to identify one another's goals and emotions and to understand their siblings' perspectives in conflict negotiations than were children in the control group. Furthermore, children in the mediation group (especially older children) were better able to understand that people interpret the events of a dispute and attribute blame according to their own perspectives.

"While this study had a few limitations, and further investigation of mediation should be done in different contexts, it also demonstrated promising results of parents' use of mediation to resolve sibling conflicts," according to the study's authors, Julie Smith, who is now a psychologist with Renfrew Educational Services in Calgary, Alberta, and Hildy Ross, who is professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

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Summarized from Child Development, Vol. 78, Issue 3, Training Parents to Mediate Sibling Disputes Affects Children's Negotiation and Conflict Understanding by Smith, J, and Ross, H (University of Waterloo). Copyright 2007 The Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. All rights reserved.

The State Board of Education met May 15 in Orlando to discuss a number of issues, including the executive search for the next Commissioner of Education and to obtain an update on repeating F schools. State Board members also learned more about the projects relating to the Office of Mathematics and Science and heard from former astronaut Sally Ride. For the full update from the State Board meeting, visit www.fldoe.org/meetings. For more information on the Executive Search for the Commissioner of Education, visit www.fldoe.org/commissionersearch.

EARLY BIRD FCA CONVENTION REGISTRATION!

SAVE $25 if reserved by 07/01/2007

$85.00 FCA Members
$65.00 FCA Student/Retired Members

SAVE THE DATE NOW!
November 28 - 30, 2007

The 58th Annual Florida Counseling Association Convention
FLORIDA COUNSELORS: NAVIGATORS OF THE FUTURE

The Plaza Resort and Spa
600 North Atlantic Avenue
Daytona Beach, Florida 32118
1-888-BEST-SPA or 1-800-225-0328

Log onto: http://www.FlaCounseling.org for details!

Registration for pre-convention, post-convention, and additional events will be completed at a later date.  Additional event information will be emailed to all early bird registrants.

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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE - DON'T FORGET
JUNE 8 – 10, 2007 AT THE SAFETY HARBOR RESORT & SPA  
FOR MORE INFORMATION, LOG ONTO:  http://www.FLACOUNSELING.org – CONVENTION - LDC

Florida Cybercrimes Against Children Act Passes State Legislature

Apr 20, 2007 News Report

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum praised both the State House and Senate for passing the CyberCrimes Against Children Act of 2007 (SB 1004), a measure that toughens penalties for those who use the Internet to sexually prey on children.

http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?id=105099&utm_source=georgia&utm_medium=enews&utm_content=story

Student Handout: The Day Before the SAT

Help Your Students Avoid the Obvious

No matter how prepared your students are for the SAT, it can happen to anyone: the last-minute test day mishap. Forgotten photo ID, alarm malfunction, the dog ate my admission ticket... the list of mistakes that just don't have to happen goes on and on.

Of course, you probably can't call each of your students the night before. That's why we've created a printer-friendly handout for students with a checklist of last-minute reminders to review the day before the test.

>>> Read More

http://www.collegeboard.com/prof/counselors/tests/articles/1.html

Drug Free Community Program (DFC)

The Governor’s Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program is funded through the Title IV “No Child Left Behind Act of 2001” that is administered by the United States Department of Education. Title IV supports programs that prevent violence in and around schools; that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs; that involve parents and communities; and that are coordinated with related Federal, State, school, and community efforts and resources to foster a safe and drug-free learning environment that supports student academic achievement, through the provision of Federal assistance.

2007-08 Grant Announcement pdf file

See the Governor's Proclamation for Children's Mental Health
Awareness Day today, May 8.  Thanks to all who made this possible.  mimi


http://cpeip.fsu.edu/resourceFiles/Proclamation.htm

Department of Education Warns Parents of Imposter FCAT Parent Network Web Site
The Florida Department of Education recently alerted parents and school districts to the existence of at least one imposter Web site designed to appear as if it were the Department’s official FCAT Parent Network, an online resource enabling parents to view their student’s Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) scores. Known as imposter domains, these Web sites attempt to capitalize on Web address misspellings for commercial purposes. Imposter domains typically use slight variations of official Web site addresses to redirect unsuspecting visitors to sites with advertisements and paid links. To access student FCAT results, parents should log on to www.fcatparentnetwork.com using the login and password provided by their school. This secure site also includes detailed information on the meaning of the scores and provides resources to improve student performance in the future.

Teacher Appreciation Week
The Florida Department of Education will celebrate and honor teachers throughout Florida during Teacher Appreciation Week, May 6-12, 2007. Various activities are scheduled from Miami to the Panhandle, recognizing the more than 180,000 teachers in Florida. The Department has compiled a list of special promotions and discounts being offered as a special “thank you” to teachers in the state. For events and news happening in your area for Teacher Appreciation Week, visit the Just For Teachers Web site at http://fldoe.org/JustForTeachers.

AMA: Adolescent Health

Fact sheets, publications, and other resources about health concerns affecting adolescents. Topics include injury prevention, violence and bullying, nutrition and physical fitness, mental health, and teen pregnancy. Newsletter articles are only available to members, but the other publications and resources are available for free download. Includes links to related websites. From the American Medical Association (AMA).

URL: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1947.html

U.S. DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND JUSTICE SEEK PEER REVIEWERS FOR THE SAFE SCHOOLS/HEALTHY STUDENTS INITIATIVE GRANT COMPETITION

The U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and
Justice are currently seeking qualified peer reviewers to read and
evaluate grant applications that will be submitted under the Safe
Schools/Healthy Students Initiative grant competition. 

Reviewers selected by the Departments will read and evaluate 6* grant
applications, post scores and comments online, and participate in three
mandatory conference calls.  This review is scheduled to include two
rounds: 

Round One: The first round will occur from June 21 through July 2, 2007,
with three mandatory conference calls scheduled for:     

1.      Monday, June 25, 2007 from 1:00pm-3:00pm OR 3:30pm-5:30pm (ET)
2.      Wednesday, June 27, 2007 from 1:00pm-3:00pm OR 3:30pm-5:30pm(ET)

3.      Friday, June 29, 2007 from 1:00pm-3:00pm OR 3:30pm-5:30pm (ET)

Round Two: The second round will occur from July 5 through July 16,
2007, with three mandatory conference calls scheduled for:  

1.      Monday, July 9, 2007 from 1:00pm-3:00pm OR 3:30pm-5:30pm (ET)
2.      Wednesday, July 11, 2007 from 1:00pm-3:00pm OR 3:30pm-5:30pm
(ET)
3.      Friday, July 13, 2007 from 1:00pm-3:00pm OR 3:30pm-5:30pm (ET)

In anticipation of this review, the Departments are requesting
prospective reviewers to send an e-mail message indicating interest and
a copy of their current resume to Jane Hodgdon-Young at the Department
of Education in the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) at
Jane.Hodgdon@ed.gov.  In an e-mail message, please indicate availability
for the first or second round of reviews, or both.

Current Resume: The resume should include the reviewer's area(s) of
expertise (see below); preferred address and telephone number to be used
for the review (including receipt of Fed Ex package); and preferred
email address.  If selected as a peer reviewer, we will request the
reviewer's social security number for payment, but for security purposes
please do not include it with your resume.

Areas of Expertise: Qualified reviewers for this grant competition MUST
have expertise and experience in at least one of the following areas:
comprehensive, collaborative planning; law enforcement; juvenile
justice; mental health; early childhood development; school-community
partnerships; alcohol, tobacco, other drug and violence prevention and
early intervention; social and emotional learning; program management;
or evaluation of community or school-based programs. 

Required Trainings: Prospective reviewers must fully participate in two
trainings to be considered for the review.  The first training is the
U.S. Department of Education E-Reader on-line peer review platform.  The
E-Reader training will be offered on the following dates:

1.      May 16, 2007 from 2:00pm-3:00pm (ET)
2.      May 23, 2007 from 2:00pm-3:00pm (ET)
3.      May 30, 2007 from 2:00pm-3:00pm (ET)

If a potential reviewer has already taken the 2007 Office of Safe and
Drug-Free Schools E-Reader Training, it does not need to be repeated.
Simply inform us of the date on which the training was completed.

The second required training is the 2007 Safe Schools/Healthy Students
Peer Reviewer Training.  This on-line training will cover the logistics
of peer review and the 2007 Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant
application.  The training is scheduled to go live on Friday, May 25,
2007, and a link to the training will be available on the Safe
Schools/Healthy Students web site: www.sshs.samhsa.gov.

Confirmation of reviewers is based on the number of applications
received, appropriate mix of reviewers' qualifications, availability,
and other factors.

Conflict of Interest: Please be aware that if you were involved in the
writing of an FY 2007 application or are named in an application that is
submitted under this competition, and would have a financial interest if
the project were funded, you have a conflict of interest and may not
participate as a peer reviewer under this grant competition.

The honorarium for reviewing 6* applications, according to the
established review schedule, is $800.
If you have any questions or need additional information about this peer
reviewer opportunity, please send an e-mail message to
Jane.Hodgdon@ed.gov, referencing Potential Peer Reviewer (84.184L) in
the subject line.

*We anticipate that each panel will be assigned 6 application; however,
the peer review's signed agreement will allow for reading up to 7
applications in the event that a panel must be assigned an additional
application.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/aaon-twm042407.php

Teens who have chronic daily headache, especially those with migraine headaches, are at greater risk for suicide than teens who don't have migraines, according to a study published in the May 1, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Teens with migraine are also more likely to have other psychiatric disorders such as depression and panic disorder.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uops-mip042707.php

Monthly interpersonal psychotherapy prevents relapse of depression in many women

PITTSBURGH, May 1 – Most women with recurrent depression may be able to prevent subsequent depressive episodes with monthly maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), say researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Teens can perform CPR as well as adults and should be taught from an early age

Thirteen-year-olds can perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as well as adults, finds a study published online in BMJ today. The authors suggest that children as young as 9 years old should be taught CPR skills including chest compressions.

Children play key role in forging close communities

Contrary to popular opinion, children play a key role in strengthening local communities and making people feel safe in their neighborhoods, according to a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Review finds ways of helping children of drug and alcohol misusers

A new review suggests how children whose parents have drug or alcohol problems can be protected from the consequences usually associated with parental substance misuse.

Drama can help educate and motivate, research shows

from EurekAlert! - Breaking News

Drama certainly has the power to entertain, but can it also change behavior? A play about substance abuse was successful at prompting audience members to participate in substance abuse prevention activities, according to Allyn Howlett, Ph.D., from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

More research needed to involve families in psychosocial interventions

from EurekAlert! - Breaking News

Family-oriented psychosocial interventions seem to be beneficial in improving the mental and physical well-being of both patients with chronic illness and their family members, but the results aren’t as robust as researchers had hoped. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh say more research is needed to improve such interventions in a study published in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Institute of Mental Hygiene -- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Grants Program (New Orleans, LA) (Deadline: 7/01/07)
The Institute of Mental Hygiene is accepting applications for its Child and Adolescent Mental Health Grants Program. The purpose of this program is to test new ideas, make sure effective programs are replicated, address critical or emerging issues and provide core support to mental health organizations focused on serving children and adolescents.
http://www.healthinschools.org/grants/ops978.asp

Do Something -- GameStop Youth Grants

Do Something is accepting applications for its GameStop Youth grants program. The purpose of this program is to support creative proposals for solving local problems in three areas: health, community building, and the environment. Applicants should address Do Something’s core principles: 1) measurable change; 2) community focus; 3) long-term problem solving action; 4) creativity; and 5) diversity.

Grants of $500 each will be awarded weekly throughout 2007. Eligible applicants must be 25 years old or younger.

Deadline: Rolling

For complete program information and application guidelines, please visit www.dosomething.org/gamestop_application

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools is not the administrator of this funding announcement. Please contact the organization mentioned in the grant alert paragraph for details. Thank you.

http://www.healthinschools.org/grants/ops973.asp