BRYCS Publication

Funding News

The Youth Outreach for Victim Assistance Program (YOVA), from the National Crime Prevention Council and the National Center for Victims of Crime, will select 20 new sites to receive up to $3,000 to implement a youth-led public awareness campaign. The YOVA project seeks to raise awareness about teen victimization and services that can help teen victims of crime, and to provide resources to victim service providers so they can better reach and serve teen victims. Applications are due May 16, 2006. For application information visit the YOVA web site. (description taken from the National Crime Prevention Web site)

Community Awareness and Outreach Campaign Projects for the Prevention of Family Violence, Funding Opportunity No. HHS-2006-ACF-ACYF-EV-0126, announcement from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), provides funds for the distribution of credible and persuasive information by community organizations to help break the cycle of family violence. Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply. Applications are due June 11, 2006. For application information visit the ACF Grant Opportunities web site. (description taken from the ACF Grant Opportunities web site)

Mentoring Children of Prisoners, Funding Opportunity No. HHS-2006-ACF-ACYF-CV-0029, The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is accepting applications for the Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program. This program supports the creation and maintenance of one-on-one mentoring relationships between children of incarcerated parents and caring, supportive adult mentors. Applications are due June 12, 2006. For application information visit the ACF Grant Opportunities web site. (description taken from the ACF Grant Opportunities web site)

  Events

Preventing Gangs in Our Communities (Part I), a Web cast from the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, will air on May 23, 2006, at 2:00pm ET. Sign up for this broadcast and Part II (airing June 6th, 2006 at 2:00pm ET) on the DOJ Connect New Viewer sign up page.

Fixing a Broken Immigration System, The Maryland Office for New Americans is proud to sponsor this year’s Annual Conference of the Maryland Coalition for Refugees and Immigrants. The event will be held on June 14, 2006, at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD. (Cost: $25 paid in advance.) For additional information, or to volunteer at the conference, please contact Pat Hatch at the Maryland Office for New Americans, (410) 767-8970.

  Resources

The State of the World's Refugees: Human Displacement in the New Millennium, from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development, examines the changing dynamics of displacement over the past half decade. An online version of "The State of the World's Refugees" is available on www.unhcr.org. (description taken from the UNHCR web site press release)

Immigrant and Refugee Integration: New Films About the Experiences of Newcomers in America, from Active Voice in partnership with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) and Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media. This publication highlights a selection of top-quality documentary films that illuminate the immigrant experience and issues of integration such as English acquisition, education, employment, health, economic contributions, family cohesion, and Transnationalism. (description taken from the GCIR web site)

Evaluation Toolkit, from the FRIENDS National Resource Center, was developed to help program managers, administrators and interested others develop and implement evaluation processes that will be useful in day-to-day practice, and to help provide evidence that their programs make meaningful differences to children and families. One component of the Evaluation Toolkit is the Logic Model Builder, a collaborative effort between the FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention and the National Clearinghouse for Child Abuse and Neglect Information. (description taken from the FRIENDS web site)

Problem Oriented Guides for Police, Problem Specific Guide Series: Juvenile Runaways, from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, provides a resource for law enforcement to analyze the problem of juvenile runaways at the local level. It contains information on the factors that may contribute to juvenile runaways: triggers, seasonal and temporal issues, methods of departure, destinations, duration, and consequences. The guide lists specific questions to help law enforcement understand their local problem and ultimately develop appropriate responses. (description taken from the Department of Justice web site)

Focusing Juvenile Justice on Positive Youth Development , from the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, examines how juvenile justice agencies might draw from the growing body of evidence on positive youth development to improve services for youthful offenders. (description taken from the Chapin Hall web site)

Youth Permanency web page, from the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information (NCCANCH), provides resources that can help youth leave foster care to live with legal, permanent families and assist them establish permanent, caring connections to responsible adults. (description taken from the NCCANCH web site)

Building Bridges: Increasing Language Access for the Asian Pacific American Community of New York City, a policy brief from the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), examines language access to the education, child welfare and mental health systems of New York City, including common language barriers and recommendations for addressing them. (description taken from the CACF web site)

  Research

Effective Truancy Prevention and Intervention, from the Wilder Organization, is a review of research related to effective truancy prevention programs of three types: 1) school-based interventions; 2) community-based interventions; and 3) law enforcement or court-based interventions. (description taken from the Wilder web site)

What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation, from the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP), with support from the William T. Grant Foundation, this brief distills findings from the first phase of the study, which examines demographic differences in youth's Out of School Time program participation rates. The brief concludes with implications for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers. (description taken from the HFRP web site)

Getting Ready: Findings from the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative, from the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative, identifies a core set of common indicators that can be used to measure progress towards school readiness and early school success. The report is based on a set of core indicators of school readiness that emerged from the work of 17 states involved in the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative. (description taken from the Getting Ready web site)

COMING SOON: 

BRYCS will publish our Positive Youth Development Toolkit on June 1, 2006! Our June Web site will introduce the Toolkit, providing an overview of the issues, examples of creative programming, and resources for serving refugee youth. Whether your goal is leadership development, school success, or gang prevention, BRYCS uses a positive youth development framework in order to understand and effectively address the special strengths and needs of refugee youth.

On August 1, BRYCS will feature the topic of Child Care and announce our newest publication: Understanding and Responding to the Child Care System. This new curriculum and training instrument will focus on increasing understanding of the child care system through interactive learning modules, and include strategies to build capacity among refugee communities and resettlement agencies to respond to child care as a barrier to employment.