Happy
New Year!!
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Greetings!
We are excited to introduce you to the Kids' Well-being Indicators Clearinghouse (KWIC). KWIC is a powerful data tool managed by the Council on Children and Families. It is a state- and county-level data warehouse designed to advance the use of children's health, education and well-being indicators as a tool for policy development, planning and accountability. KWIC originated in 2003 and has just been redesigned and upgraded. |
KWIC Redesign 
Kids' Well-being
Indicators Clearinghouse (www.nyskwic.org)
KWIC contains over 300 child well-being indicators and offers powerful data tools to manipulate these indicators. Listed below are some of KWIC's features:
- Indicator Reports contain indicator data for NYS, NYC, Rest of State, and all counties in NYS, as well as narrative descriptions, data source information, current findings, a dynamic bar chart providing an immediate visual of change for each county, and the ability to toggle to a county report, or view an indicator report as a graduated color map, or as
a graph. - County Reports display a specific county's data compared to NYS rates for specified report types (Child Well-being, Child Welfare, Maternal/Infant Health, Juvenile Justice, and All KWIC Indicators).
- Map Builder display graduated color indicator maps for all indicators, compare maps over time; select specific counties to create custom regions and aggregate and export those data; display demographic numbers over selected indicator data map, as well as view NYS Congressional, NYS Assembly and Senate district overlays on top of indicator maps.
- Custom Query Builder select specific indicator(s), region(s), and year(s) to view customized results as data tables with supporting bar charts.
- MyKWIC Account create a MyKWIC account to store custom queries. Early next year this section will be enhanced to allow users to combine counties to create and save custom regions. When users are logged into their MyKWIC accounts, their custom regions (with aggregated data) will be available to them in all indicator, county and custom reports.
The data on KWIC are organized by Touchstones Life Areas and data are provided by our State Agency Partners. We hope that you will find KWIC to be a useful tool for planning purposes. Please subscribe to KWIC News to receive data updates and notification of new KIDS COUNT publication releases. If you have comments or suggestions or would like to share with us how you use KWIC, please contact us. We are very interested in your feedback.
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Bullying....
Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Task Force Invites Public to Submit Ideas on Fighting Bullying
The Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Task Force recently announced that it will now accept submission of field-based practices to combat bullying for listing on its website, http://www.bullyinginfo.org, a repository for bullying prevention information.
"We know that many programs are successfully addressing bullying and want to share those materials with others," said Kevin Jennings , Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Education Department's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools who also chairs the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Task Force. "Our goal is to create an easy, central mechanism for them to do so."
Submissions can include a range of formats from research articles to youth-produced public service announcements. All material must be made available free of charge and hosted on either a government or non-profit website. All submissions will be reviewed before posting: inclusions does not indicate an endorsement by the federal government.
www.FindYouthInfo.Gov already accepts submissions of evaluated, evidence-based programs for listing in its program directory. The site will now also accept submissions for a range of youth topics, including not only bullying, but also health and nutrition, positive youth development, substance use, parenting, and others.
To submit field-based material to www.BullyingInfo.org and/or www.FindYouthInfo.gov, please visit www.FindYouthInfo.gov/resourcesubmission.aspx.
To submit evaluated evidence-based programs, please visit www.FindYouthInfo.gov/nominate.shtml.
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You are invited to a free Webinar co-hosted by Melanie Puorto, Director of the New York State Office of Mental Health's Suicide Prevention Initiative. Ms. Puorto will discuss her office's targeted roster of programs in conjunction with the recently inaugurated New York State Suicide Prevention Center, including the adoption of a new online gatekeeper training for high school teachers.
Please click here to register
The New York State Office of Mental Health (NYSOMH) recognizes suicide as a serious statewide public health problem and accordingly has established suicide prevention as a top priority. The NYSOMH's statewide suicide prevention initiative is multidimensional and seeks to involve stakeholders at all levels of government and every community within the nation's third largest state (http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/suicide_prevention). Among the innovative programs to be discussed is the adoption of At-Risk for High School Educators, an online, interactive training designed to prepare high school educators to identify, approach and refer students exhibiting signs of psychological distress. At-Risk provides educators with practice speaking with emotionally responsive student avatars who exhibit signs of psychological distress, including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and thoughts of suicide. To learn more about At-Risk, and view a demo of the a similar training, please visit www.kognito.com/atrisk.
Joining Ms. Puorto will be Dr. Glenn Albright, a clinical psychologist and director of applied research at Kognito Interactive, an award-winning learning technology group. Dr. Albright will present the findings of a national survey to measure the effectiveness of At-Risk for High School Educators.
The Webinar is free and will be conducted on Thursday, January 13, 2011. To register, please click on the link below:
New York Suicide Prevention Initiatives: January 13, 2010: 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST
If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Spiegler at jennifer@kognito.com.
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Federal Funding Opportunity
Reducing Risk Behaviors by Promoting Positive
Youth Development
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are offering grants to effective, evidence-based, gender-inclusive programs that are adapted, translated, or disseminated for new populations of youth and adolescents for the purpose of reduction of youth risk behaviors.
Award amounts vary. Eligible applicants are public/state controlled or private institutes of higher education, non-profits with or without 501 (c) (3) IRS status, for-profit organizations, and various other organizations, including non-U.S. entities.
Deadline: February 5, 2011
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There are so many exciting joint initiatives underway and we thank you for your interest in these cross-systems workings. Again, we welcome your ideas. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please e-mail us any time at engage@ccf.state.ny.us.
Sincerely,
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Bill Przylucki
Director, NYS Children's Plan and Statewide Systems of Care Contact
The ENGAGE Newsletter is an information sharing service.
Information presented in this newsletter is not all inclusive and does not imply endorsement of any particular methodology or program.
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