National, State, and Other Honors
Received the 2003 SAMHSA Administrators Award for School-Based Mental Health Services; U. S. Department of Health & Human Services: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Portland, OR, October, 2003.
- Designated as a Promising Program for inclusion in the Model Programs Guide Database by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the U. S. Department of Justice. Bethesda, MD, June, 2003.
- Designated as a Select Program by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, Emotional Learning (CASEL). Chicago, IL, July, 2002.
- Designated as a Model National Program by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in the U. S. Department of Health & Human Services. Rockville, MD, July, 2000.
Cited as an Exemplary Mental Health Program in Exemplary Mental Health Programs: School Psychologists as Mental Health Service Providers (National Association of School Psychologists, 3rd Edition), Bethesda, MD, 2002.
- Designated as a “Best and Promising Practices” Program by the Western Center for the Application of Preventive Technologies in association with the Oregon Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs. Salem, OR, September, 2000.
- Highlighted at the 1999 Improving America’s Schools Conference “Creating Safe Schools and Healthy Students Institute.” Sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education, Tampa, FL, October, 1999.
- Identified as an effective school reform program by the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice of the American Institutes for Research, Washington, D. C., January, 1997.
- Semi-finalist in the U. S. Department of Education’s National Awards Program for Model Professional Development, October, 1996.
Recipient of over $10 million in external Federal and State grants (Department of Education) since 1990, including six U. S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education training grants and one U. S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Innovation field-initiated research grant.
- Highlighted at the Safe and Effective Schools for ALL Children: What Works! A National Teleconference. Sponsored by the U. S. Departments of Education and Justice (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention), and the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice at the American Institutes for Research, Washington, D. C., September, 1999.
- Cited as an exemplary program relative to school safety at the White House Conference on School Safety, and highlighted in the U. S. Department of Education/Department of Justice Annual Report on School Safety, October, 1998.
- One of five programs across the country to be funded by the Metropolitan Life Foundation's Positive Choices: Youth Anti-Violence Initiatives program in the Fall of 1995 for $100,000.
- Received Honorable Mention in the Coalition on Educational Initiatives' and USA TODAY's Community Solutions for Education national awards program, May, 1995. The Coalition on Educational Initiatives included Apple Computer, Inc.; Proctor & Gamble; State Farm Insurance Companies; and Subaru of America, Inc., and over twenty national professional associations.
- Highlighted on the ABC News' 20/20 program "Being Teased, Taunted, and Bullied" on April 28th, 1995.
