AODA, Tobacco and Violence Prevention Grant Workshop

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AODA, Tobacco and Violence Prevention Grant
Workshop

• Student Services Prevention and Wellness Team
• February, 2008

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Presenters
Joan Lerman
Gary Sumnicht
Ken Wagner
Pam Kanikula

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Contact Information

• DPI CONSULTANTS
• Joan Lerman CESAs 5, 6, 8, 12
• 608-266-2829 joan.lerman_at_dpi.state.wi.us
• Gary Sumnicht CESAs 2, 10, 11
• 608-267-5078 gary.sumnicht_at_dpi.state.wi.us
• Ken Wagner CESAs 1, 3, 4, 7, 9
• 608-266-5181 kenneth.wagner_at_dpi.state.wi.us
• Student Services/Prevention and Wellness Team
• http//www.dpi.wi.gov/sspw/

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Todays Agenda

• General Updates
• Title IV (Safe and Drug Free Schools Program)
• Student Mini-Grant Program
• AODA Program Grant Competition
• Panel Presentation from Local Grantees
• AODA Program Grants
• School Tobacco Grants
• Lunch Break

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Todays Agenda (continued)

• School Tobacco Grant Competition
• Q and A/Technical Assistance Session with
• DPI Consultants (Optional)
• Adjournment

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General Updates

• Title IV Safe and Drug Free Schools
• Funding for 08-09 may result in a 15 reduction
  in funding for Title IV-A.
• To our surprise congress may be moving ahead with
  reauthorization of the Safe and Drug Free
  Discretionary Grants before the election.

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General Updates

• Student Mini-Grant Competition
• We funded 266 grants in total
• 33 ATS Grants (Alcohol and Traffic Safety)
• 23 Tobacco
• 210 AODA

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2008-2011 Wisconsin State AODA Grant Program
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Our Mission

• Use data to make wise choices about strategies to
  be included in proposals
• Help policy makers, colleagues, parents and
  students understand benefits of prevention and
  youth development programs
• Implement programs thoughtfully and
  evaluate/report on impact

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Wisconsin State YRBSTrends 1993-2007

• Percentage of high school students who had their
  first drink of alcohol other than a few sips
  before age 13 years.(1993 - 2007)

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Wisconsin State YRBSTrends 1993-2007

• Percentage of high school students who, in the
  past 30 days, rode in a car with a driver who had
  been drinking, or drove a car when they had been
  drinking. (1993 - 2007)

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Wisconsin State YRBSTrends 1993-2007

• Percentage of high school students who had five
  or more drinks of alcohol in a row, that is,
  within a couple of hours, on one or more of the
  past 30 days.(1993 - 2007)

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Wisconsin State YRBSTrends 1993-2007

• Percentage of high school students who used
  marijuana one or more times during their life or
  in the past 30 days.
• (1993 2007)

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2008-2009 Anticipated AODA funding

• Consolidated AODA
• Program Grants 5,000,000
• Tobacco Program
• Grants 375,000
• Student Mini-grants 200,000
• ___________
• TOTAL 5,575,000

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AODA Program Grant Overview

• An AODA Program under section PI-32 may include
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Policy
• Student programs
• Adult programs
• Integration of community resources/support
• AODA program coordinator
• Comprehensive school health programs

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AODA Program Grant Materials

• Guidance Document
• Fill-Enabled Application
• Reviewers Benchmarks
• Available at
• www.dpi.wi.gov/sspw/aodaprog.htmlaodagrant

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State AODA Application

• Application format
• Cover page/abstract fill-enabled
• Narrative portion
• Sections to be addressed are stated in
  application
• 10 pages maximum for single district applicants
  (very rigidly adhered to)
• 12 pages maximum for consortium applicants (very
  rigidly adhered to)
• Budget fill-enabled

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Eligibility/Timelines

• Single districts or consortia can apply
• Range of awards by district size
• Due date to DPI Wednesday, April 23, 2008
• No faxes, no electronic files
• 3-year funding cycle for 2008-2011
• Award notification On or about June 1, 2008

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Maximum Awards

• (MPS) 100,000 students 280,000
• (Class A) 10,000 students 140,000
• (Class B) 3,000-9,999 students 64,000
• (Class C) 1,000-2,999 students 40,000
• (Class D) 999 and under 20,000
• Consortium 15,000 with no maximum

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State AODA Application

• Review Process
• State Superintendents AODA Advisory Council
  conduct external review and funding
  recommendations.
• Looking for volunteers to assist with this
  process!!!
• Reviewer benchmarks are used to generate final
  rating.
• DPI provides final internal review.

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First Steps - Where Do I Start?

• Read the application in its entirety
• Develop an understanding of benchmarks
• Bring together the right group of partners
• Including Tobacco Coalition and/or County
  Prevention Council representatives
• Begin assessing and analyzing local need

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Statement of Need

• An essential section (genesis of grant)
• Shows how you determined
• Problems/populations targeted
• Activities to address problems
• Should define
• Policies, curriculum and programs within the
  school
• Current student behavior and attitude data
• Describes the gap between identified need and
  present programs
• Supported by LOCAL evidence

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Statement of NeedFree DPI Tools

• Online YRBS
• www.dpi.wi.gov/sspw/yrbsindx.html
• Anonymous online survey of student attitudes and
  risk behaviors.
• Available at Middle and High School level.
• District receives report, graphs, and raw data in
  CD format.

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Statement of NeedFree DPI tools (cont.)

• WINSS School Climate Surveys
• www.dpi.wi.gov/sig/index.html
• Separate survey for students and staff assessing
  feelings of safety and connectedness.
• Completed online with immediate reporting.

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Statement of NeedFree DPI tools (cont.)

• AODA Assessment Tool
• www2.dpi.state.wi.us/SSPW_AODA_Assessment
• Completed online either individually or in a
  small groups of school staff.
• Immediate results available to the assessment
  coordinator.
• Access with ESEA log-on and password

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AODA Assessment ToolComponents

• Healthy School Environment
• Curriculum
• Instruction Assessment
• Pupil Services
• Student Programs
• Adult Programs
• Family Community Connections

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AODA Assessment Tool Healthy School
Environment-Component Summary

• We're doing well in these areas (ratings of 0, 1
  and 2). The district's ATODA policy prohibits
  all students' use, possession, and distribution
  of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs on school
  property. District Wide (1)The school has
  clearly defined consequences and procedures for
  violations of policies and rules, including
  counseling/intervention services.(0020) Abbot El
  (2) The school uniformly and equitably applies
  consequences, and follows procedures when
  policies and rules are violated and expectations
  are not met.(0020) Abbot El (0)

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AODA Assessment Tool Healthy School
Environment-Component Summary

• We have the following gaps in our Comprehensive
• ATODA Prevention Program (rating of 0)
• The district's ATODA policy prohibit staff and
  visitor use,
• possession, and distribution of alcohol, tobacco,
  and other
• drugs on school property. District Wide (5)
• The school has clearly defined consequences and
  procedures
• for violations of policies and rules, including a
  unified approach
• (shared belief system) to student discipline.
• (0020) Abbot El (7)
• The school has clearly defined consequences and
  procedures
• for violations of policies and rules, including
  education about
• the violation. (0020) Abbot El (2)

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Objectives

• Must flow logically from the statement of need
• Process Objectives describe how the grant will be
  implemented
• Outcome Objectives measure grant impact through
  changes in behavior, attitudes, perceptions,
  knowledge, skills.

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Outcome Objectives

• Outcome Objectives answer
• Who is your target population?
• How much change do you hope to see?
• What is your intended outcome?
• When will your objective be met or measured?
• By what will you measure your outcome?

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Objectives (Well Written)

• Think SMART
• SSpecific - one action verb (e.g. list)
• MMeasurable - objective statistics
• AAppropriate - from needs assessment
• RRealistic - can be accomplished
• TTime specific - completion date

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Objectives

• Incomplete Outcome Objective
• Students will learn about harmful effects of
  alcohol.
• Complete Outcome Objective
• By June 30, 2009, students in Project Northland
  in grades 7-8 will show a 20 increase in
  knowledge about the harmful effects of alcohol as
  evidenced by pre- and post- tests.

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Objectives

• Is the following a SMART objective? Discuss with
  your neighbor's.
• As a result of the Tribes program, middle
• school students response to the statement,
• "Adults at my school treat students with
• respect will increase by _5__ when
• comparing student responses from May,
• 2007 to those of May, 2009.

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Local Plan Developing Your Program

• Restating each measurable objective with
  accompanying timeline of activities, dates and
  responsible persons
• Should be at least one activity for each
  objective
• Grid or chart format is best

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Sample Local PlanMeasurable Outcome Program
Objective Activities Position
Responsible Completion Date
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Local Plan
Research-Based Model Programs

• What are they?
• Effective research-based, well-implemented
  school, family, and community programs
• Providing quality materials, training, and
  technical assistance
• Reviewed according to rigorous standards of
  research

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Model Programs Websites

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  Administration's (SAMHSA) National Registry of
  Effective Programs and Practices (NREPP)
  http//nrepp.samhsa.gov/
• Center for the Study and Prevention of
  Violence-Blueprints for Violence Prevention
  http//www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints
• Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional
  Learning
• http//www.casel.org/projects_products/safeandsou
  nd.php
• Hamilton Fish Institute http//www.ed.gov/PDFDocs
  /InterimAR.pdf
• National Institute of Drug Abuse
• http//www.drugabuse.gov/pdf/prevention/RedBook.p
  df
• U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and
  Drug-Free Schools (2002)
• http//www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/exemplary01/e
  xemplary01.pdf

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Local Plan
Best Practices

• What are they?
• Effective school, community, and family-focused
  strategies for altering individual choices toward
  drug abuse.
• Research-based prevention strategies that have
  positive outcome results in reducing risk factors
  or increasing protective factors for drug use or
  actual drug use initiation and use.

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Evaluation Plan

• How you will determine if your project is a
  success?
• What systematic procedures will be used to
  determine completion of objectives?
• Must be tied directly to objectives
• Must include outcome data, not just opinions.

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BREAK
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General Challengesto Success in Grant Writing

• Failure to follow benchmarks
• Too wordy (No need to fill all pages allowed)
• Not enough substance in the narrative to
  understand the scope of the project
• Scope of the project does not fit the spirit of
  the funding, i.e. entirely on academics
• Funding an existing project with no expansion or
  modification
• Failure to collaborate

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Panel Presentation by Local Grantees

• AODA Program Grants
• School Tobacco Grants

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LUNCH
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School Tobacco Program
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School Tobacco Grant Program

• Available dollars at least 375,000
• Funding provided through the DHFS -Tobacco
  Control Program
• Program Objective
• To improve schools implementation of the CDC
  Guidelines for School Health Programs to Prevent
  Tobacco Use and Addiction

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CDC Best Practices - 2007

• Identifies what works
• Includes recommendations by state of the funds
  needed to end the tobacco use epidemic
• Based on analysis of current research by a panel
  of experts in tobacco control and economics

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CDC Best Practices 2007Youth Program
Recommendations

• Environmental strategies to support tobacco-free
  norms are imperative
• Intervention is necessary during adolescence

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CDC Best Practices 2007Youth Program
Recommendations (cont.)

• School-based policies and interventions must
• Be part of a comprehensive effort across school
  and community
• Be presented in conjunction with
• Price increases
• Anti-tobacco media campaigns
• Making environments smoke-free
• Other efforts to create tobacco-free norms

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CDC Guidelines for School Health Programs to
Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction

• School-based strategies most likely to be
  effective in preventing youth tobacco use
• Based on in-depth review of research, theory, and
  current practice in the area of school-based
  tobacco-use prevention

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CDC GuidelinesRecommendations

• All schools should
• develop and enforce a school policy on tobacco
  use
• provide instruction
• about the short- and long-term negative
  physiological and social consequences of tobacco
  use, social influences on tobacco use, peer norms
  regarding tobacco use, and refusal skills
• provide tobacco-use prevention education in
  kindergarten through 12th grade

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CDC GuidelinesRecommendations (cont.)

• All schools should
• provide program-specific training for teachers
• involve parents or families
• support cessation efforts among students and all
  school staff who use tobacco
• assess the tobacco-use prevention program at
  regular intervals

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WI Critical Program Priorities for School Tobacco
Grants

• Must be based on one or both of these CDC
  recommended strategies
• Youth leadership/advocacy peer programs
• Youth Cessation middle high school
• Priority target - Middle School youth
• Must identify and serve a population
  disproportionately impacted by tobacco

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2006 WI Youth Tobacco Survey
Current Use of Tobacco
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Disparately Impacted Populations

• - Racial/ethnic groups - Sexual minorities
• - 18-21 year olds - Pregnant teens
• - Alternative school students
• - Youth living in homes with smokers
• - Youth/families of low socio-economic status
• - Youth from rural areas (where spit tobacco is
  more prevalent)
• - Urban youth (where heavy marketing targets
  certain populations)

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Additional Tobacco Grant Requirements

• Planning and implementation with tobacco
  coalition is a necessity (or health department if
  no funded coalition)
• Tobacco Assessment Tool completion is a
  requirement

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Eligibility/Timelines

• Only public school districts or consortia may
  apply
• Range of awards by district size
• see grants guidance book
• Due date to DPI Friday, March 14, 2008
• No faxes, no electronic files
• Award notification June 1, 2008

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Wisconsin State YRBSTrends 1993-2007
Percentage of high school students who smoked
cigarettes on one or more of the past 30 days.
Data from 1995 unavailable
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Wisconsin Youth Tobacco Survey Trends 2000-2006
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Tobacco Application Components

• Assurances
• Application contents page
• Budget page
• Local tobacco-free coalition verification
• Benchmarks

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Tobacco Application Format

• Cover page/abstract fill-enabled
• Narrative portion
• Sections to be addressed as stated in application
• 10 pages maximum for single district applicants
• 12 pages maximum for consortium applicants
• Budget fill-enabled

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Statement of Need

• Tobacco Assessment Tool
• Based on CDC Guidelines for School Health
  Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction
• Required with the tobacco grant application
• An assessment should be submitted for each
  building in which a program will be provided

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Statement of Need

• Should also include data regarding one or both of
  the following
• Student tobacco use behavior/attitudes
• Local survey data (preferred) such as YRBS or
  Search and/or
• School discipline records
• At least one disparately impacted population in
  the district (must be included)
• May include other data such as
• Tobacco use in the larger community
• Targeted advertising in the community

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Collaboration/Integration

• State the local tobacco-free coalition
  involvement in
• the identification of need
• the planning process
• implementation of the project
• Include a plan for sustaining partnership

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Objectives

• As described with AODA grants
• Must be measurable and outcome based (SMART)
• Should address changes in student attitude,
  behavior, knowledge and/or skill

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Local Plan

• As described with AODA grants
• Must include the local tobacco free coalition in
  the implementation plan

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Evaluation

• Address grant objectives
• Match the local plan
• Two kinds of evaluation
• Process (numbers served, trained)
• Outcome (changes in behavior, attitude, skills,
  knowledge, environment)

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Tobacco Grants Webpage

• www.dpi.wi.gov/sspw/tobaccoprog.html
• Includes links to
• Grant Application
• Tobacco Assessment Tool
• DPIs Resources for School Tobacco Programs A
  Selected List - 2007
• Other helpful resources

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Resources Technical Assistance

• Tobacco Control Resource Center for WI
• www.tobwis.org
• DHFS-Tobacco Control Program
• http//dhfs.wisconsin.gov/tobacco/index.htm
• In particular look for the Burden of Tobacco and
  the state YTS data.