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AMTC
News
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022
Caring Means Protecting
Caring involves At AMTC, we care deeply for our participate. At the same time, strict
clients and the individuals they measures are taken to protect
protecting the serve. Among many things, caring student information, such as locking
involves protecting those we serve. hard copies of assessments in
individuals we serve. Safeguarding the data and restricted areas, with access to
Safeguarding the information of our clients is select personnel only.
essential. Cindy Walker is one AMTC team
data and information AMTC & Associates recently member who helps ensure AMTC
delivered a webinar on protections and our clients stay current on
of our clients is under the guidelines of two federal youth protection. A research
essential. acts, the Protection of Pupil Rights methodologist with extensive
Amendment (PPRA) and the real-world experience, she is
– angela turner Children’s Online Personal featured on page four. Please find
Protection Act (COPPA), which is more information about PPRA and
the topic of our first article. COPPA throughout this newsletter.
In addition to understanding Wishing you good health in the
these laws, other goals of the new year and beyond,
webinar included identifying ways
schools should notify parents,
recognizing the importance of state Angela Turner
and school district policies, and Principal
differentiating types of consent.
The second article focuses on
how Peacemakers Family Center of
AMTC News Miami-Dade County, Florida,
Joshua Becker, Writer & Editor balances protecting youth and
curricular transparency for parents.
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For example, parents are notified
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of the way and can view the
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curricula at any time. A parent may
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PPRA
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Topic Areas
PROTECTING
OUR YOUTH’S PRIVACY The following require notification
to parents and parental consent
when collecting data:
It’s no secret that data is being likewise applicable. Some clients of Political affiliations
mined about all of us, bringing AMTC host online services, for
privacy issues into the spotlight. Still, example, delivering asynchronous Mental and psychological
problems potentially
in our work at AMTC & Associates online curricula modules that include embarrassing to students and
and our clients’ operations, individual profiles of youth and may their families
measures are taken to ensure that also host online student data.
we uphold the protection of Further emphasizing its applicability Sex behavior and attitudes
program participants. It’s not only to clients, Brandon
our ethic—it’s the law. Recently, Osborn, AMTC Illegal, anti-social, self-
AMTC held a webinar for its clients Research incriminating and demeaning
behavior
who work with youth on adhering Associate and
to, and the importance of, the Internship
federally mandated Protection of Program Director,
Critical appraisals of other
individuals with whom
Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) and said, “The more respondents have close family
the Children’s Online Personal we can share relationships
Protection Act (COPPA). about PPRA and
Brandon Osborn,
PPRA requires schools and COPPA, the more AMTC Research Legally recognized privileged or
partner agencies to notify parents of prepared staff Associate and analogous relationships, such as
minors when a government-funded can be to make Internship Program those of lawyers, physicians, and
Director ministers
survey, study, or evaluation will be sure they are
administered to their child. The law compliant in their local communities.”
Religious practices, affiliations,
further restricts specific analyses of Compliance is not one-size-fits-all. or beliefs of the student or
student data. Parents have the right Every jurisdiction (i.e., community, student’s parent
to view surveys beforehand and/or school board, university, etc.) has its
can exempt their children. PPRA own set of protocols and standards Income (other than that required
applies to several asking points: that must be followed. Ethical by law to determine eligibility for
political affiliations; potentially considerations are established by participation in a program or for
receiving financial assistance
embarrassing psychological what’s known as an Institutional
under such a program)
problems; self-incriminating and Review Board (IRB). While each IRB
illegal behavior; privileged has its regulations, the bottom line is
relationship protections, such as that each IRB is tasked with
between patient and physician; protecting human subjects.
religious beliefs; and income. After all, the very purpose of
So urce: A M TC webi nar, “The
These considerations are relevant assessing youth is to help them grow Protect i o n of Pupi l Rights
to AMTC and our clients because and for AMTC and our clients to learn A men dment (P P RA ),” Novemb er
they work with youth and administer how to serve youth better. Protecting 12, 2021.
surveys/assessments. The COPPA is youth is essential to this mission.
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PPRA
transparency & protection :
WHEN
Peacemakers Strikes a Does It Apply?
Perfect Balance PPRA applies to public school
programs and DOE-funded
programs.
Recent news coverage centers on parents wanting more transparency Programs and activities of
schools
about school curricula. AMTC & Associates and its clients believe that
parental involvement fosters student success. AMTC clients provide health
Recipient of funds under any
curricula that elicits sensitive information, so protections must be in place to program funded by the U.S.
protect students’ names and other confidential data, such as private Department of Education
information that youth provide on surveys. Transparency and protection are
not mutually exclusive. Any research funded by the U.S.
Peacemakers Family Center is an AMTC client that strikes a balance Department of Education
between parental access to curricula and protecting the confidentiality of the
students it serves. Based out of Trinity Church in Miami-Dade County, Research/Evaluation/Surveys in
public schools receiving USDOE
Florida, Peacemakers delivers within schools
funding
“Our highest goal evidence-based curricula focused on healthy
relationships, teen pregnancy prevention, and
is always to
positive youth development, to name only a few of
protect the
their many services. So urce: A M TC webi nar, “The
students in the Protect i o n of Pupi l Rights
“Our highest goal is always to protect the students
schools we are in the schools we are serving,” said Crystal Agnew of
A men dment (P P RA ),” Novemb er
12, 2021.
serving... We shift Peacemakers. These efforts include training staff in
to make sure steadfast protocol to protect youth and to emphasize
whatever they’re the importance of protections. Answers to surveys
sharing, they feel and assessments are strictly guarded; only select
safe.” AMTC evaluation staff have access to de-identified
– crystal agnew data. At the same time, Peacemakers is completely
transparent with its programming. Parents may view
the entire curricula at any time, and in the coming
months, curricula will be posted on the school district
website.
Protections and parent access are mainstays of
youth programming, but shifts in procedures might
reflect the times, such as with COVID-19. Students
receive protections at home, such as not completing
certain forms that they would have otherwise
Crystal Agnew of completed in-person (in case they are in an unsafe
Peacemakers Family
\
Center
environment). “We shift to make sure whatever
they’re sharing, they feel safe,” emphasized Agnew.
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Meet our
Associates Our diverse team delivers fast, relevant results for
our clients. Here is one individual who contributes
to those efforts.
CINDY WALKER
PRESIDENT AND CEO, “I love this work because it makes a
RESEARCH ANALYTICS difference in the lives of youth and
CONSULTING, LLC
young adults... AMTC and their clients
EDUCATION:
MS, BS in Mathematics; PhD have figured out how to do it
in Educational Psychology, exceptionally well.”
University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign
– cindy walker
Name some recent work with AMTC. How does your work impact your sense of fulfillment?
I oversee all AMTC evaluation projects in some capacity. I love this work because it makes a difference in the lives
However, lately, I have been spending a lot of time on of youth and young adults receiving programming from
the Personal Responsibility Education Innovative AMTC clients. It’s a community-engaged scholarship. It’s
Strategies Program (PREIS), a research grant that everything they talk about doing at the university level
Peacemakers Family Center received to study its healthy but don’t do well. AMTC and their clients have figured
relationship and pregnancy prevention program. We out how to do it exceptionally well, so I am constantly
have been finalizing our processes to get Institutional learning.
Review Board (IRB) approval [see page two]. I have also
been working to ensure all AMTC clients with new What takeaways do you have about PPRA and COPPA?
grants in 2022 receive IRB approval. Another large part The purpose of the IRB is to make sure that the
of my work is for our Healthy Marriage and Relationship evaluation and research protects human subjects. The
Education clients. I have been working to ensure we PPRA and COPPA must be adhered to, or we wouldn’t
have valid and reliable measures for evaluation purposes. get IRB approval.
How does this work impact AMTC and its clients? What’s new personally?
It helps to ensure all of our evaluation work is as rigorous We have a new camper to explore my new state of
as possible, feasible, and adheres to federal regulations, Florida.
such as the protection of human subjects.
PPRA USDOE, What is PPRA FAQ:
https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/faq/what-protection-pupil-
ADDITIONAL rights-amendment-ppra
USDOE, Regulation Language:
https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/content/ppra#se34.1.98_14
RESOURCES USDOE, History of PPRA:
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/privacy/section_2c.asp
Language on Students Rights in Research, Experimental
To learn more about PPRA and how it Programs, and Testing: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/
title-34/subtitle-A/part-98
might impact your organization, be sure
to explore these resources. Student Privacy PPRA FAQ:
https://studentprivacycompass.org/faqs-ppra/
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