Bullying Workshops
Now Available by Podcast
According to a recent Stop Bullying Now!
(SBN!) Campaign newsletter published by
the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, video workshops are available
by podcast, which provide bullying prevention
tips and techniques. Video workshops for
educators, health and safety officials,
youth organizations, law enforcement officials,
and mental health workers are offered free
of charge and can now be downloaded through
iTunes®.
To listen, open iTunes® (or click here
to download
iTunes), make sure you have the latest
version, and click on the "Podcast" button
on the left of the window. Go to the "Advanced" menu
at the top of the window, and select "Open
Stream." Paste this URL below into
the "URL" field: http://www.bullyingresources.org/podcast/bullyin
gpodcast.xml
Now you're ready to select and play the
workshops! For a full list of workshops, click
here.
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Bullying Prevention Resource Kits and
Activity Guides
In addition to the
availability of all the SBN! resources
on the SBN!
Web site,
hard copies of the Resource
Kits and the Communications
Kits can be ordered through 1-888-ASK-HRSA.
Special arrangements for use of resources,
including brochures and posters, can be
made for conferences and other partner
events by contacting Sara
Appleyard at
202-667-0901 or via e-mail.
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Richard Louv Founds
Children & Nature
Network (C&NN)
Richard Louv, best-selling author of Last Child in the Woods and a previous keynote
speaker for the 2006 ACA National Conference, has created an online network (Children & Nature
Network)
to connect environmental educators, conservationists, and many others who have
been working to reunite children with nature. C&NN will offer a news service,
a speaker's bureau, and, most importantly, a peer-to-peer network.
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Child Trends Launches New Resource for Evaluating
Out-of-School Time
Child
Trends launches a new resource for designing, expanding,
refining, improving, and evaluating out-of-school
time programs. Fact sheets, research briefs,
and practitioner insight reports provide
critical information on new research, promising
evaluation and practice techniques, and basic
information to help service providers and
others use research and evaluation to improve
programs for youth.
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Tom Osborne Federal Youth Coordination Act
The Forum for Youth Investment, along with
the National Collaboration for Youth, has
been successful in passing the Tom Osborne
Federal Youth Coordination Act!
This act creates a Federal Youth Development
Council consisting of the Secretaries of all
major federal departments, community and faith-based
organizations, states and local officials,
and young people, charged with developing and
implementing an overarching plan for meeting
the needs of youth. To learn more about this
important Act, visit www.forumfyi.org.
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