LTAM School, Community & Facilitator Introduction Toolkit

The Let’s Talk About Me (LTAM) School, Community & Facilitator Introduction Toolkit - (Grant Funding Toolkit Below) is a comprehensive, ready-to-use resource (Download below) designed to help schools, school districts, community organizations, youth programs, nonprofits, ministries, and facilitators confidently introduce and implement the LTAM personal-safety and empowerment series for teen girls.

This national toolkit provides the professional materials organizations need to present LTAM to administrators, school boards, parents, community partners, funders, and program staff. It removes much of the guesswork from program approval, planning, communication, and implementation by providing editable letters, forms, scripts, checklists, presentations, and support documents in one organized package.

The toolkit explains how LTAM strengthens personal safety, self-worth, healthy decision-making, boundary awareness, communication, digital safety, peer-pressure resistance, grooming awareness, healthy relationships, help-seeking, and situational awareness. It also shows how the series can be implemented in schools, after-school programs, mentoring organizations, youth-serving nonprofits, summer programs, community initiatives, and ministry-operated outreach programs.

The toolkit includes:

• School and district introduction letters
• Principal and superintendent approval requests
• School board and administrator briefing materials
• Community organization partnership letters
• Ministry and youth-program introduction letters
• Program overview and executive summary templates
• Pilot-program proposal templates
• Facilitator welcome letters and preparation checklists
• Facilitator opening and closing scripts
• Session-planning and implementation forms
• Parent and guardian notification letters
• Student invitation and welcome materials
• Participant agreements and group expectations
• Confidentiality and non-disclosure guidance
• Student disclosure-response procedures
• Mandatory-reporting and safeguarding reminders
• Site-readiness and program-planning forms
• Attendance and participation logs
• Pre- and post-program evaluation tools
• Facilitator observation and fidelity checklists
• Program outcome and closeout-report templates
• Standards-alignment matrices
• Middle school and high school implementation guidance
• State and district customization worksheets
• Partnership agreements and Memorandum of Understanding templates
• Promotional copy, flyers, and announcement language
• Sample budgets and program supply checklists

LTAM is a prevention-focused educational series. Students are never required to disclose personal experiences. The toolkit supports trauma-informed, age-appropriate, and skills-based implementation while allowing each organization to follow its own safeguarding, privacy, parent-notification, and mandatory-reporting policies.

The national version provides a universal implementation foundation while allowing schools and organizations to add their state standards, district requirements, local resources, reporting procedures, and community partnerships.

The website-ready PDF may be downloaded and used as a complete reference guide. The editable Word version allows organizations to personalize the letters, forms, policies, schedules, contact information, and implementation materials for their own program.

Whether LTAM is being introduced to a principal, district administrator, community director, ministry leader, parent group, or potential partner, this toolkit provides the materials needed to present the series professionally, gain support, prepare facilitators, protect participants, and begin implementation with confidence.

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LTAM School, Community & Facilitator Introduction Toolkit PDF

LTAM School, Community & Facilitator Introduction Toolkit Word DOC

LTAM National Grant Application Toolkit

(Created for Schools, Community Organizations, Ministries, Youth Programs, Non-profits)

The Let’s Talk About Me (LTAM) National Grant Application Toolkit (Attached below as downloads) is a comprehensive, ready-to-use funding resource created to help schools, school districts, community organizations, nonprofits, youth programs, and eligible faith-based organizations seek financial support to implement the LTAM empowerment and personal-safety curriculum for teen girls.

This national toolkit removes much of the confusion and guesswork from the grant-writing process by providing educators and organizational leaders with professional grant language, editable templates, evaluation tools, planning forms, budgets, letters, and supporting documentation that can be customized for local, state, federal, corporate, and foundation funding opportunities.

The toolkit explains how LTAM supports student safety, social-emotional development, healthy decision-making, boundary awareness, digital safety, violence prevention, academic engagement, and help-seeking skills. It also demonstrates how the program may fit within schools, after-school programs, mentoring organizations, youth-serving nonprofits, summer programs, community initiatives, and ministry-operated outreach programs.

Included in the toolkit are:

• Grant cover-letter and letter-of-inquiry templates
• Executive summary and program narrative templates
• An empirically supported Statement of Need
• Program goals, objectives, outcomes, and logic models
• Detailed implementation and work-plan templates
• Sample budgets and budget-justification language
• Pre- and post-program evaluation tools
• Scenario-based student assessments
• Facilitator observation and program-fidelity forms
• Parent and guardian notification templates
• Partnership request letters and letters of support
• Memorandum of Understanding templates
• District approval and site-readiness forms
• Student privacy, non-disclosure, and safeguarding guidance
• Standards-alignment matrices
• Middle school and high school outcome measures
• State customization worksheets
• Funding alignment guidance for DOJ, OVW, CDC-related prevention programs, education grants, victim-service funding, and private foundations
• A directory of education and funding resources for all 50 states and the District of Columbia
• A complete APA reference appendix

The toolkit uses a national standards foundation while allowing applicants to add their state, district, and local benchmark codes. This makes it adaptable across the United States while recognizing that funding requirements, education standards, reporting expectations, and youth-protection laws may vary by location.

The LTAM National Grant Application Toolkit does not guarantee that an organization will receive funding. Instead, it provides applicants with a strong, organized, research-informed foundation that can improve grant readiness, strengthen proposals, and help organizations clearly communicate the need, purpose, implementation plan, measurable outcomes, and community value of the LTAM program.

The PDF version may be downloaded and used as a reference guide, while the editable Word version allows schools and organizations to personalize the templates for their own students, service area, budget, partnerships, and funding opportunity.

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LTAM National Grant Application Toolkit PDF

LTAM National Grant Application Toolkit Word Doc

Funding Opportunities for Schools & Community Organizations

The Let's Talk About Me (LTAM) Guide for Teen Girls is a prevention-focused educational resource designed to help girls develop the confidence, knowledge, and practical life skills needed to navigate today's increasingly complex social environment. While this curriculum has not yet undergone formal empirical evaluation, it is grounded in current research, recognized prevention strategies, and best practices in youth development, personal safety, healthy relationships, and social-emotional learning.

Because LTAM addresses critical topics such as self-worth, boundary setting, bullying prevention, online safety, grooming awareness, stalking prevention, healthy relationships, situational awareness, and personal safety, it aligns with the goals of many federal, state, local, and private funding initiatives that support violence prevention, youth empowerment, school safety, student wellness, and family engagement.

Schools, nonprofit organizations, faith-based organizations, community agencies,
and youth-serving programs may be able to use a variety of grant opportunities and community funding sources to purchase curriculum materials, train facilitators, implement prevention programming, and
expand access to students and families. The funding opportunities outlined below represent some of the most promising options for organizations seeking to invest in proactive education that helps prepare teen girls to recognize risks, make healthy decisions, and build safer, more confident futures.

FUNDING RESOURCES DOWNLOADS

LTAM FUNDING RESOURCE DOWNLOAD