Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders: Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence (AVB)
This curriculum provides techniques for altering behaviors and motivations of people who commit acts of violence in addition to addressing the roles that victims and bystanders play in violent situations. The first two days of the training will be a teacher training event that prepares facilitators to teach AVB to adolescents.  The third day of the training will be a training of trainers that focus on building skills to train others to implement AVB.  This training addresses the actions of people who commit acts of violence, along with the roles victims and bystanders play in responding to conflict. Participants learn and practice conflict-resolution skills that enable them to stay safe while maintaining self-respect and respect for others. Recommended for grades 6 – 8. The U.S. Dept. of Education's Safe, and Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel designated AVB as a "promising program" in January 2001. Trainer: Millie Naquin, Ph.D., CHES, Associate Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University.

Becoming A Responsible Teen (BART)
BART in an interactive HIV/AIDS prevention curriculum designed for youth in high-risk situations. It is recommended for after-school programs aimed at reducing risky sexual behaviors that leads to HIV/STD infection and unintended pregnancies. It emphasizes the sound development of communication skills to prevent pregnancy, drug use, and the transmission of STDs.  Trainer: Isaiah Webster, DOE Cadre of Trainers

Bullying Prevention Trainer-of-Trainer Program
This is a multilevel, multi-component school-based best practices training designed to prevent or reduce bullying in elementary, middle, and junior high schools (6 to 15 years of age). Participants will leave with skills to assist schcools in offering technical assistance and in developing program components to minimize risks and reduce bully/victim behavior. This program provides tools that allow schools to restructure the existing environment to reduce opportunities and rewards for bullying. School staff is largely responsible for introducing and implementing the program. Their efforts are directed toward improving peer relations and making the school a safe, positive place for students to learn and develop. This training also includes a segment specifically designed to help school officials design effective discipline practices and help aggressive youth find other ways to meet their needs without hurting others. Trainer: Dr. Michael Carpenter, Ph.D, LPC, Nationally Certified Olweus Bullying Prevention Trainer.

Cultural Competence Training
This training will assist participants in tailoring HIV/AIDS education and prevention efforts to specific cultural and ethnic groups, including gay men, lesbians, African Americans, Asian American and Pacific Islanders, Latinos, sexual assault survivors, and homeless youth. It includes discussions on how to identify those most at risk within these communities, what types of interventions are most appropriate to these communities, and the role of evaluation in determining the success of community education efforts.  It will include models, ideas, and case studies designed to help professionals fully integrate youth-friendly, culturally competent approaches into their prevention work. Trainers: Don Evans, DOE Cadre of Trainers, and Robert Swayzer, Doctoral Candidate, Tulane School of Public Health.

Making A Difference
This curriculum empowers adolescents to change their behavior in ways that will reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV and other STDs, and of becoming involved in unintended pregnancies. Specifically, this curriculum suggests that adolescents should postpone sexual activity and emphasizes that practicing abstinence is the only way to completely eliminate their risk for STDs, HIV, and pregnancy. This program is identified as an evidence-based program by the Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention. Trainer: LaVerne Price, Health and Physical Education Instructor, New Orleans Public Schools

Personal and Social Skills (PSS)
This training focuses on the development of four life skills: decision-making, communication, stress management, and goal setting. These skills can be integrated across all health content areas in grades 9-12. This can be used as a separate curriculum unit or part of an existing prevention or health education program. Trainer: Diane Cole, M.S., Health and Physical Education Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University.

Positive Behavior Support (PBS) - Two sessions
PBS - New Team Training (August 2-3; Participants must attend both days)
New team training will provide school-based leadership teams with the tools and procedures to develop policies and practices that effectively support student behavior and achievement.  A facilitator will be needed to support each school-level leadership team.  The leadership team and facilitator will continue receiving support and limited on-site and off-site technical assistance.  Leadership teams will utilize data to target, develop and evaluate interventions for their schools.
PBS - Secondary Interventions (August 4)
This workshop is designed to share Secondary PBS Interventions.  This training is geared for facilitators and/or school teams from schools that have made significant progress in the Universal or School-wide PBS approaches.  Three major areas will be covered in the training: Data Analysis, Classroom Approaches, Non-classroom Settings

Safer Choices
A school-based, HIV/STI and teen pregnancy prevention program with a primary goal of reducing the number of students engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse by encouraging abstinence and by increasing condom use among those students who are sexually active. Safer Choices has been shown to modify several factors related to sexual risk-taking behavior: knowledge about HIV and other STDs; attitudes about sexual behavior and condom use; normative beliefs regarding sexual intercourse and condom use; students' belief in their abilities (self-efficacy) to refuse sexual intercourse or unprotected sexual intercourse, to use a condom, and to communicate about safer sexual practices; perceived barriers to condom use; perceived risk of becoming infected with HIV or other STDs; and communication with parents. This is an evidence-based program. Trainer: Jan Garbarino, nationally recognized health educator and sex education consultant.

USDA Team Nutrition: Family Nutrition Night - August 3 ONLY (Nutrition grant recipients only)
A thematic approach to teaching methods for planning and implementing family nutrition nights. Designed to provide teachers with techniques for teaching math, science, and English/language arts with a nutrition theme.. Sample stations will illustrate strategies for utilizing innovative educational materials. Trainers include: Dr. Brenda Nixon, Laurell Cliburne, Monica Mitchell, Dr. Julie Lester, and Joann Garland.

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