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Funded Partners:
National Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Society of State Directors of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
(The Society)
The Society is a professional association whose members supervise and
coordinate programs in health, physical education, and related fields within
state departments of education.
The Society's Program in Action
The Society is funded under two Capacity-Building Assistance
categories:
- Preventing HIV Infections: State and Local Education Agencies.
- Preventing Chronic Diseases: Promoting Coordinated School Health Programs (CSHPs).
For Preventing HIV Infections: State and Local Education Agencies,
The Society is
- Working with the National Stakeholders Collaborative (NSC) to
strengthen collaboration between state health and state education
agencies to support and improve prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted
diseases (STDs), and unintended and teen pregnancy for youth. The NSC is
comprised of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS
Directors (NASTAD), the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), the
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), and the
Society. During Year 4, the NSC is:
- Providing capacity building assistance to the four state teams that
participated in the National Stakeholder Meeting Reconvene (NSM-R) in January of 2009.
- Identifying and documenting success stories and lessons learned from state
teams receiving capacity building assistance.
- Providing a minimum of 2 in-state National Stakeholder Meeting 2.0s for state
teams that participated in previous National Stakeholder Meetings (NSM).
- Providing professional development opportunities to increase HIV
Coordinators’ capacity to develop, implement, evaluate and sustain effective,
quality HIV Prevention programs.
- Working collaboratively with its members, the National Stakeholders
Collaborative and other appropriate partners to provide intensive capacity
building assistance for up to three state HIV Coordinators to increase their ability
to develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain effective HIV Prevention programs.
- Conducting a one-day workshop, held in conjunction with the organization’s
Annual Meeting, for all DASH-funded SEA and LEA HIV Coordinators on HIV Prevention.
- Completing strategic planning to develop a new plan to address the current
needs of the SEAs.
Other NGOs Funded under this category:
For Preventing Chronic Diseases: Promoting Coordinated School Health Programs (CSHPs),
The Society is
- Developing an updated version of the PowerPoint®
presentation Making the Connection, a tool for state and local
education decision-makers, parents, teachers, and administrators that
demonstrates the value of implementing a CSHP approach to connect
student health with academic achievement.
- Working jointly with the National Association of Chronic Disease
Directors (NACDD) and the Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE)
in the Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP) Collaborative. The
Collaborative will provide capacity building assistance to state education and
health agency teams to improve the delivery, effectiveness, and sustainability of
coordinated school health programs.
- Providing technical assistance via conference
calls, website support, resource identification, and on-site visits to
previously trained agency coordinators, to advance understanding and
implementation of CSH at the state and local levels.
- Updating and maintaining an online posting of technical assistance resources to
build state education agency capacity to implement CSHPs on the local
level.
- Updating and maintaining an online, searchable directory of CSHP staff with state
education and health agencies.
Other NGOs Funded under this category:
See Also
Funding
Announcement 601 [pdf 245K] (CDC-RFA-DP06-601). Provides more
information on the NGO funding requirements for providing capacity-building
assistance.
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