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1. Am I able to move funds out of my program budgets in order to fund my communications projects?
Anytime you have a question about your Safe Schools/Healthy Students budget or contract, you need to call your Federal Project Officer who is the only person who can authorize amendments to your budgets.
2. I am looking for an evidence-based program that will help us reach our SSHS program objectives.
Whenever you have a question or need technical assistance (unrelated to your budget or federal guidance) and related to your Safe Schools/Heallthy Students program, you need to call your Technical Assistance Specialist from the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention.
3. I am concerned about how to financially sustain our grant-funded programs after the three year grant award period.
Your Technical Assistance Specialist from the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention can assist you with strategies to enhance sustainability of your programs, while the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Communication Team can help you with marketing, public relations, and mass communications strategies to assist you in promoting your successes and sustaining key components of your initiative.
4. I need help creating a WEB site to promote our Safe Schools/Healthy Students initative.
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students initaitve features access to state-of-the-art communications consultants from the Communication Team who can link you to other SSHS WEB sites and who can provide training and technical assistance to you as you create your own site.
5. My project evaluator is looking for assessment tools that will assist us as we implement and evaluate our SSHS programs.
Whenever you have a question or need technical assistance (unrelated to your budget or federal guidance) and related to your Safe Schools/Heallthy Students program, you need to call your Technical Assistance Specialist from the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention.
6. We would like to create a PowerPoint presentation to promote our SSHS initiative to our teachers, principals and school board members.
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students initiative features access to state-of-the-art communications consultants from the Communication Team who have developed a Victory Kit which includes boilerplate materials for PowerPoint presentations, news releases, fact sheets, and other collateral materials to assist you in promoting your SSHS site. You can download the Victory Kit and other SSHS materials from the SS/HS Communication Team Web site.
7. How can I network with other SSHS sites?
There are many ways to network with your peer SSHS grantees. Click on the site map, and see what local education agencies have been funded in your state. Their contact information is listed on this site. Take advantage of conference and training opportunities such as the Communication Team Institutes and the National Center's conferences Project Director days. Other means of peer-to-peer networking include monthly conference calls sponsored by yout TA providers.
8. How do I locate content experts on evidence-based programs, project evaluation, sustainability, etc.?
The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention provides you with a Technical Assistance Specialist who can assist in linking you to content experts through consultation, training and on-site visits. You can also go to the US Department of Justice WEB site which has a list of programs
9. We've developed materials for our grant programs and WEB site, who owns the rights to the materials that we've developed?
You will want to discuss any contract or budget issues with your Federal Project Officer. In the meantime, you may also want to refer to the EDGAR guidelines at the U.S. Department of Education WEB site @ www.ed.gov which outlines ownership guidelines of materials created with SSHS grant funding.
10. We're a small, rural site with a growing population of migrant farm workers. We don't have much infrastructure to accommodate our ESL/Spanish speaking students and parents. Who can help us with cultural competency issues?
The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention provides you with a Technical Assistance Specialist who can assist in linking you to cultural competency content experts through consultation, training and on-site visits.
11. We don't have staff to assist us with our media relations and marketing activities, and we don't have a budget to hire communications staff. What should we do?
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Communication Team assigns you a Communication Specialist who can provide consultation assist you with your marketing and communication needs. Additionally, the Communication Team can help you with recruitment strategies for bringing interns or volunteers in to your site to assist you with your communication activities.
12. In our outreach activities, we would like to encourage parental involvement with youth in our community. Are there existing programs?
In collaboration with SAMHSA and HRSA, the SSHS Communication Team provides access to the 15+ program: "Take time to listen; Make time to talk." To download a PDF version of the program materials, got to http://nmhicstore.samhsa.gov/15plus/pubs.aspx. |
