Historically Black Colleges and Universities Violence Prevention Demonstration
The Office of Minority Health and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funded a Family and Community Violence Prevention Program managed by the Minority Male Consortium. Nineteen Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) were involved in activities to prevent violence within families and communities. Macro provided technical assistance, training, and evaluation services to support and analyze demonstration interventions that included training HBCU program managers and evaluators in completing evaluation assessments. Macro also hosted a technical assistance conference where HBCUs were able to share problems and productive approaches to evaluating violence prevention programs.

Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
In 1999, Congress set aside $40 million for a program to prevent violence in schools. The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was one of three Federal agencies charged with designing a violence prevention program to put into action the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative. Macro provides violence prevention training and technical assistance for 150 SS/HS grant sites across the country in communications topic areas—writing and implementing communications plans, developing materials, working with the media, designing Web sites, conducting spokesperson training, and creating videos, to name a few. These training programs are site-driven, collaborative, culturally appropriate, and flexible. We provide technical assistance services through site visits, workshops, conferences, telephone, fax, and e-mail. We also develop and disseminate materials to supplement interactive technical assistance.