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February 2025

DIBBLE NEWS

Mind Matters Minutes Reminder!

THE LATEST

Children of High-Conflict Divorce Face Greater Mental Health Risk
Relationship Pathways: From Adolescence to Young Adulthood

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Helping Teens Navigate the Uncertainties of Modern Love
Crucial Conversations About Healthy Romantic Relationships
What If SEL Were About Making the World a Better Place?

TOOLS YOU CAN USE

7 Strategies to Strengthen Your Relationships in 2025
Red Flags to Watch for in Your Teenager’s Relationships
What's Behind the Falloff in Social-Emotional Learning for Teens

WEBINAR - February 12, 2025

Building Trust Using Unique Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention

FUNDING STREAMS

DIBBLE NEWS

Mind Matters Minutes Reminder

Mind Matters Minutes lets you, your staff, and your youth easily practice the self-soothing skills from the Mind Matters program.

Mind Matters Minutes are short video practices from the Mind Matters curriculum that can easily be shared with your staff and the young people you serve. Each practice presents a skill to reduce reactivity and build resilience. The videos are ready-to-go, reducing extra work.

THE LATEST

Children Caught Between Highly Conflicted Divorced Parents at Greater Risk of Mental Health Problems

Youth who experience higher levels of inter-parental conflict after divorce are more likely to fear abandonment and experience mental health problems.

Relationship Pathways: From Adolescence to Young Adulthood

This book explores how relationships evolve from adolescence to young adulthood, emphasizing changes during key transitional periods. Global experts review research on family and peer relationships, considering environmental and genetic influences. It offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of key factors shaping these relationships.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Helping Teens Navigate the Uncertainties of Modern Love

Social media, evolving attitudes, and mental health challenges are having profound effects on teens' romantic relationships. A new book explores teen love and how parents can help.

Crucial Conversations About Healthy Romantic Relationships

The Activate Center’s latest resource can help youth-supporting professionals have conversations with youth who experience the child welfare and/or justice systems, homelessness, and/or disconnection from school and work about healthy romantic relationships. The toolkit includes guidance for preparing for and beginning these conversations, along with things to do and avoid while talking with youth.

What If SEL Were About Making the World a Better Place?

To help solve the world's collective challenges, students need social-emotional learning programs that go beyond the individual.

TOOLS YOU CAN USE

7 Strategies to Strengthen Your Relationships in 2025

These tips can help you fortify your friendships and romantic partnerships in the year ahead.

Red Flags to Watch for in Your Teenager’s Relationships

We naturally want the best for children, including healthy and happy relationships. When it comes to the teenage years, relationships can be complicated and sometimes even harmful. Knowing the red flags to watch for can help us intervene early if a relationship becomes unhealthy or abusive.

What's Behind the Falloff in Social-Emotional Learning for Teens

Surveys from the EdWeek Research Center find that districts' focus on SEL is back down to pre-pandemic levels.

WEBINAR

February 12, 2025

Building Trust Using Unique Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention

Recruiting and retaining youth in youth development programs, specifically in teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs, is a multifaceted challenge. Systemic barriers, transportation difficulties, and competing priorities are just a few of the obstacle’s organizations face. At PRO Youth & Families (PRO), trust-building has proven to be a vital foundation for achieving success in both recruitment and retention.

In this webinar, PRO will partner with Queens of Eve, a community-based organization, to share actionable strategies and insights from their collaborative work. Together, they will discuss key trust-building practices, such as fostering strong relationships, setting clear boundaries and expectations, actively listening, and adapting to meet the unique needs of youth and partners. Additionally, the session will highlight the role of meaningful youth incentives and partner compensation in promoting program success.

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

Identify three practical strategies to support partner recruitment and retention.
Identify and integrate three practical strategies to support youth recruitment and retention.
Understand the importance of utilizing incentives and fair compensation for partners and youth to drive successful recruitment/retention.

Presenters:

Taylor Intermill- Associate Director, PRO Youth & Families
Gabrielle Rivas- Program Coordinator, PRO Youth & Families
KaTina Watson- Founder and Executive Director, Queens of Eve

Who should attend: Grant Writers and Managers, Program Staff, Partnership Coordinators, Teen Pregnancy - Sexual Risk Avoidance - Healthy Relationship - Dating Violence Grantees, Community Based Organizations

When: Wednesday, February 12 @ 1:00pm Pacific/4:00pm Eastern

Duration: 60 Minutes

Cost: FREE!

CURRENT FUNDING STREAMS

Company Communities Supported in WA, OR, CA and ID

Application Deadline: None

Banner Bank's community support program, Banner Gives, prioritizes nonprofit organizations that empower youth in Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho. Key areas of focus for youth programs include academic achievement, civic involvement, financial literacy, and physical and emotional development. While also supporting housing, financial education, and economic development, Banner Gives specifically emphasizes programs that directly benefit young people, such as tutoring, mentoring, after-school programs, and youth leadership initiatives.

Spreading Love Through the Media- Reporting Grants for Journalists, Podcasters and Social Media Creators

Submission Window: January 7 – March 24, 2025

The Greater Good Science Center's Spreading Love Through the Media initiative, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, is a three-year effort to harness the transformative power of love to tackle social challenges like polarization and loneliness. This initiative seeks to broaden the concept of love beyond romantic relationships, highlighting its role in fostering compassion, altruism, and social cohesion.

We are offering grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 to fund projects that showcase love’s power to build connection and resilience. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the Spreading Love Through the Media initiative will award approximately two dozen grants to support nonfiction content and reported stories exploring love in its many forms—compassionate, familial, romantic, and beyond.

OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Indian Tribal Governments Program

Application Due Date: April 8, 2025

The Grants to Indian Tribal Governments Program, referred to as the Tribal

Governments Program, assists Tribal governments (or their authorized designees) to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking in Tribal communities. There are three application options for applicants to choose from in responding to this

NOFO. Applicants must choose only one application option.

FORECASTED FUNDING STREAMS

Transitional Living Program

Estimated Post Date: February 28, 2025

Estimated Application Due Date: May 1, 2025

The Transitional Living Program (TLP) provides shelter and comprehensive supportive services to youth ages 16 through 21 for up to 18 months or, under extenuating circumstances, 21 months. In addition to shelter, TLPs provide comprehensive services that support participating youth’s transition to self-sufficiency and stable, independent living. Through the combination of shelter and services, TLP youth are expected to show improvements in four core outcome areas: safe and stable housing, education or employment, permanent connections, and social and emotional well-being.

Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (Ready4Life)

Estimated Post Date: February 28, 2025

Estimate Application Due Date: May 1, 2025

The Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life) grants will be targeted exclusively to projects designed to provide healthy marriage and relationship education skills, parenting (for young fathers and mothers as applicable), financial management, job and career advancement, and other activities, to youth that are high-school aged (grades 9-12) or in late adolescence and early adulthood (ages 14 to 24), including parenting and/or pregnant youth.

Family, Relationship, and Marriage Education Works - Adults (FRAMEWorks)

Estimated Post Date: February 28, 2025

Estimate Application Due Date: May 1, 2025

This funding will be targeted exclusively to projects designed for adult individuals or adult couples, defined as persons who are age 18 and older. Applicants will be asked to submit proposals that are designed to implement programs that include a broad array of service provision strategies. These include curriculum-based skills development and services designed to support family strengthening activities through one or more of seven activities specified under the authorizing legislation: marriage and relationship education/skills (MRES); pre-marital education; marriage enhancement; divorce reduction activities; marriage mentoring; public advertising campaigns; and activities to reduce the disincentives to marriage.

Fatherhood - Family-focused, Interconnected, Resilient, and Essential (Fatherhood FIRE)

Estimated Post Date: February 28, 2025

Estimate Application Due Date: May 1, 2025

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA) announces its plan to solicit applications for the competitive award of grants that support "activities to promote responsible fatherhood" under each of the three broad categories of promoting or sustaining marriage, responsible parenting, and economic stability activities authorized under Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. This funding will be targeted exclusively to projects designed for adult fathers, defined as fathers that are age 18 and older.

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