Many of the following resources and technical assistance documents are available at no cost through the Student Services/Prevention and Wellness Team, and can be downloaded from this web site.
User must have a PDF reader installed and configured on their Web browser to read many of the following files.
Free Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® software is available at:
However, some are available in hard copy only and can be obtained by:
- Calling 608-266-8960,
- Sending an E-mail to
jackie.brashi@dpi.wi.gov, or
- Completing and mailing or faxing an
Order Form.
2005 Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Prepared by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Urban Initiatives and Research for the Department of Public Instruction.
2004 School Health Education Profile Report.
Answers to Frequently Asked Compulsory School Attendance
Questions.
2004, 28 pp. (pdf version).
A Partnership for Preventing Truancy: Empowering Students, Schools, and Communities.
Answers to Frequently Asked School Age Parent Questions.
2005, 20 pp.
CDC Guidelines for School Health Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction
Available in both Overview (2 pp.) and Full Report (20 pp.)
CDC Guidelines for School Programs to Prevent Skin Cancer
Developed by the CDC to provide recommendations on reducing skin cancer risk among students.
CDC Guidelines for School Health Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injuries and Violence
Available in both Overview and Full Report
Citizenship:Building a World of Good (tool kit)
This tool kit explains the seven characteristics of effective schools, provides an inventory to assess perceived strengths in each of these characteristics, and gives practical ideas to help schools implement the characteristics in their buildings. 1998, 74 pp.
Clear the Air: A Secondhand Smoke Tool Kit
This tool kit is designed to provide middle and high school teachers with information around the issue of secondhand smoke. The tool kit provides resource materials targeting classroom curriculum, youth activities/advocacy, policy, research, and websites, focused around secondhand smoke. 2003.
Confidential Services Available to Youth in Wisconsin
This document describes the circumstances in which youth may access confidential services independently, according to Wisconsin law. September 2003, 10 pp.
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Health Literacy Performance Assessments: 2007-2008
Edition
2007 Health Literacy Performance Assessments CD. Included on this CD
are the Performance Assessments for:
Alcohol & Other Drug Use Prevention; Bullying Prevention;
Character Education; Community
Health; Consumer Health; Dating Violence Prevention;
Driver Impairment; Environmental Health;
Food Safety;
HIV/AIDS Prevention; Issues in Mental Health: Mental Illness Awareness; Mental & Emotional Health;
Nutrition & Dietary Behavior; Personal Health; Physical Activity
Promotion; Sexuality & Family Living;
Suicide Prevention; Suicide Prevention Grades 6-8; Suicide Prevention Grades 8-10;
Tobacco
Use Prevention; Unintentional & Intentional Injury Prevention.
Limit of 1
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Homebound Instruction Form - Physician's Statement
School districts may use this form to obtain documentation from a physician for the need for homebound instruction.
Human Growth & Development: A Resource Packet to Assist School Districts in Program Development, Implementation, and Assessment (4th Edition, 2006).
This resource packet is designed to help local school districts develop, review, or address issues related to their Human Growth & Development (HGD) program. The packet explores such issues as state statutes, research on teen sexual issues and behavior, samples of locally developed HGD materials, and evaluation tools. (limited supply available)
Learning Modules on Social Norms: Using the 2005 Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results
This packet of instructional strategies will assist
educators with putting together a state-of-the-art unit of instruction
concerning youth health risk behaviors.
Learning Modules on Social Norms in Youth Tobacco
2007
A compilation of ideas and activities for teachers to use in their classrooms, derived from information gathered from the Youth Tobacco Survey.
My Child's Been Expelled...Now What?
A brochure providing information for parents of expelled students. 2008. Also available in Spanish
Offering Educational Opportunities to Expelled Students in Wisconsin
This document includes examples from a range of programs. It provides many sound reasons and strategies to help pursue educational success for students who have been expelled or are at risk. 2001, 36 pp.
Photocopying Birth Certificates for School Admission
The Power of Teaching: Characteristics of Effective Classroom Instruction on Health and Safety Issues
This publication represents an effort to tap into the rich knowledge and expertise of practitioners along with prevention education research to define a common set of prevention characteristics that cut across a variety of youth risk behavior curricula. This document can assist schools in developing instructional programs and activities that are grounded in research and best practice. 2004.
Reporting Requirements for Sexually Active Adolescents, and Related Statutes.
2005, 13 pp.
Resources for School Tobacco Programs 2007: A Selected List
This descriptive list of resources and programs is designed to help Wisconsin school-communities select materials that will assist them in implementing effective programs and policies to help reduce tobacco use among youth.
Safe School Resources
A compilation of various resources focusing on how districts and communities can
keep their schools safe.
School HIV/AIDS Policy Tool Kit
The purpose of the tool kit is to provide school districts with the necessary resources, including policy guidance and sample policies, to assess, develop, and implement policies and procedures related to HIV/AIDS. 2003.
School Tobacco Programs: First Year Assessment
A March 2003 Program Brief by the UW Extension, UW Comprehensive Cancer Center.
This report summarizes first year findings from the Wisconsin School Tobacco Program. March 2003.
School's Role in Preventing
Child Abuse and Neglect
This publication is designed to help educators better understand their legal responsibilities to report suspected child abuse and neglect, and to assist them in understanding the child protective services initial assessment process. In addition, provisions in the law for schools and counties to share confidential information are included to help promote better working relationships between the two respective systems. October 2007. 26 pages.
Sharing Information Across Systems
This resource is designed to help local school districts and their community partners develop local policies, procedures, and agreements regarding how they will share information across systems (i.e. law enforcement, the courts and juvenile justice, social services, and health). 2004, 28 pp.
Student Records and Confidentiality
This publication addresses the areas of access and disclosure, maintenance, parents' and students' rights and access, and transfer of records utilizing a question and answer format. Supporting and relevant statutes and documents are cited. 2006.
Team Nutrition Resources
If you have school nutrition-related questions, please contact Jill Camber Davidson, DPI Nutrition Education Consultant, at 608-264-6700 or E-mail jill.camberdavidson@dpi.wi.gov
Teen Parent Resources
These resources were developed through the collaborative work of a number of work groups (Health Care Community, Subsequent Pregnancy Prevention, Schools & Education) of the Wisconsin Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Committee as part of its ongoing efforts to implement the Wisconsin Plan to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy. 2004.
Tools for Comprehensive School Health Programs
This three-packet series provides critical information and useable checklists to help develop community health and safety councils, organize and implement effective meetings, and connect speakers in the community with schools to enhance health and safety instruction. 2000.
Wisconsin's Framework for Comprehensive School Health Programs
This framework is a multi-strategy approach that addresses the entire range of youth risk behaviors and promotes the health, well-being, and positive development of students and other members of the school-community as an integral part of a school's mission. The following documents, all based on this framework, are available:
- An Integrated Approach. 1997, 24 pp. (Available in hard copy only.)
- Case Studies in Progress - A series of twelve case studies describing local efforts to develop and improve comprehensive school health programs. 1998, 90 pp.
- Video. 1998, 10 minutes.
Wisconsin Success Stories, Tobacco Free Youth. 2005.
Youth and HIV/AIDS: Resources for Educators, Policymakers, and Parents 2006-2007
A resource designed to provide information about technical assistance and educational materials that can guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) education. It also offers information about programs whose goals are to prevent the spread of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among school-aged youth in Wisconsin. 2007.
2008 supplement.
Youth to Youth: An evaluation of state AODA funded peer programs in Wisconsin, 2001-02.
The purposes of the Wisconsin Peer Program Evaluation Study were to identify the extent to which peer-led programs (1) can prevent or reduce important health-related problems based on previous research, (2) identify key characteristics of such effective peer programs, (3) describe and identify the extent to which these characteristics are present in Wisconsin school-based peer programs that are supported, in part, by Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse funds administered by the Department of Public Instruction, and (4) describe the benefits of such peer programs in Wisconsin Schools.
Additional Resources, possibly of interest, but not available from the
Student Services Prevention and Wellness Team:
Children With Diabetes, A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families (PDF Version).
A resource publication by the Wisconsin Diabetes Control Program, Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion, Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Family Services. |
Classroom Management and Student Discipline: A Tool Kit for Creating Effective Learning Environments.
This is a for-sale publication, available in both hard copy and CD-Rom. For ordering information, contact DPI Publication Sales at 800-243-8782 (U.S. only) or (608) 266-2188, or visit the Publication Sales web page at dpi.wi.gov/pubsales. You may also download a Classroom Management and Student Discipline Tool Kit Order Form. 2001, 292 pp. |
Teaching Character Education Using Children's Literature
This is a for-sale publication. For ordering information, contact DPI Publication Sales at 800-243-8782 (U.S. only) or (608) 266-2188, or visit the Publication Sales web page at dpi.wi.gov/pubsales. You may also download a Teaching Character Education Using Children's Literature Order Form 2001, 72 pp. |
For questions about this information, contact Jacqueline R. Brashi (608) 266-4447
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