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BULLYING PREVENTION INITIATIVEIn April, The Trust announced the 45 grantees of its $8.6 million, three-year Bullying Prevention initiative at a kick-off event at the Warwick Hotel in Denver. Effective 2005-2008, the grantees will receive an average of $50,000 annually to implement bullying prevention programs. Selected via a competitive Request for Proposals process, grantees represent school districts, schools and community-based nonprofit organizations serving 32 counties across Colorado. To address the problem of bullying, grantees will utilize a variety of programs that are evidence-based, considered to be a promising or best practice, or an emerging program as defined by prevention research. In addition to implementing individual programs, grantees will also come together at least annually under this initiative to participate in trainings, share successes and challenges, and to learn from each other. An independent evaluation of the Bullying Prevention initiative will be conducted by Kirk Williams, Ph.D. of the University of California, Riverside, in partnership with the Denver-based JVA Consulting, to determine the impact of the initiative on enhancing skills of both youth and adults to intervene in bullying situations. JVA will also provide technical assistance to help grantees increase their ability to continue to evaluate their bullying prevention efforts. Click here for additional information about the Bullying Prevention Initiative. |
