This toolkit is designed to help grassroots community-and faith-based organizations develop sustainable organizations and program services. The toolkit provides helpful information to guide sustainability planning efforts, samples of tools, and actual fill-in the-blank “planning templates” and worksheets. The toolkit is organized in six, stand-alone, how-to components: Introduction Organizational Assessment and Readiness Effective Marketing Strategies Financial Management Sustainability Strategies: Fund Development and Fund […]
Archives for February 2015
Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Effects on Post-Treatment Suicide Attempts in a Military Sample
Short-term cognitive behavioral therapy dramatically reduces suicide attempts among at-risk military personnel, according to findings from a research study that included investigators from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The two-year study, funded by the Army’s Military Operational Medicine Research Program, was conducted at Fort Carson, Colo. It involved 152 active-duty […]
Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Homeless Adults with Mental Illness
A homeless person with mental illness has a 24.5 per cent chance of having a heart attack, a fatal or non-fatal stroke or sudden cardiac death over 30 years, said Dr. Agnes Gozdzik, a research associate in the Center for Research in Inner City Health of St. Michael’s Hospital. That compares to a 10.1 per […]
Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected
While efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline tend to focus on boys and young men of color, girls and young women of color also face many of the same challenges, a report from the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies finds. The report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, […]
Discrimination-Related Stress Effects on the Development of Internalizing Symptoms Among Latino Adolescents
Latino adolescents who experience discrimination-related stress are more likely to experience anxiety, depression, and issues with sleep, according to research led by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. These mental health outcomes were more pronounced among Latino teens born in the U.S. to immigrant parents, as opposed to foreign-born teens. The longitudinal […]
State of the States: Poverty and Inequality Report
Conventional national statistics conceal dramatic state-level differences in poverty, income inequality, and economic mobility, a report from the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality finds. The 2015 edition of the center’s State of the States: Poverty and Inequality Report (61 pages, PDF) found broad differences at the state level in areas such as labor market […]