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NPAL Opioid Resource Documents

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Documents

Determination of Suitability Form
This form should be completed for all adults who will interact with youth participating in NPAL programming. This includes volunteer mentors, program staff and contractors. It will need to be uploaded on your Monthly Progress Report for each new background check that is completed.

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Community Service Project Budget & Narrative Worksheet
This form should be used to provide details to National PAL and FirstPic on the Community Service Project that is a required component of the NPAL Mentoring program. Please do not incur any expenses towards your project until this worksheet had been submitted and approved.

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Activity Report Template
This template should be used to record all staff time worked on the NPAL Mentoring grant.

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NPAL Reimbursement Request Process
These PDF slides outline the step-by-step directions for creating a reimbursement request.

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NPAL National Conference & Training Reimbursement Guidelines
Please refer to the attached document for guidelines on allowable expenses for the NPAL National Conference & Training

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NPAL National Conference & Training Reimbursement Worksheet
The attached form can be used to calculate reimbursable expenses for the NPAL National Conference & Training. Once complete, it should be scanned to PDF and included as the first page of your travel expenses documentation.

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NPAL Youth Summit Reimbursement Guidelines
Please refer to the attached document for guidelines on allowable expenses for the NPAL Youth Summit

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NPAL Youth Summit Reimbursement Worksheet
The attached form can be used to calculate reimbursable expenses for the NPAL Youth Summit. Once complete, it should be scanned to PDF and included as the first page of your travel expenses documentation.

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Updating or renewing SAM Registration
This document will walk you through the process for updating or renewing your organization's UEI # registration on the SAM.gov website

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UEI Notarized Letter Template
Entities renewing or updating their registration may be required to submit an original, signed notarized letter confirming the authorized Entity Administrator associated with the UEI number before the registration is activated. Note: This letter will have to be submitted through the Federal Service Desk online portal (http://www.fsd.gov). A template can be found at the following link:

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Grantee Implementation Plan
This is a document that outlines the key activities and due dates of the program throughout the grant year. This must be completed and attached to your budget.

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NPAL Budget Development
These PDF slides outline the step-by-step directions for developing your budget.

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Travel and FICA Calculator
This spreadsheet can assist you calculations of travel costs and FICA amounts as you develop your budget.

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NPAL Mentoring Parent Consent
Template document that can be used in mentoring programs to ensure that that the proper parental consent has been acquired. Not required if your chapter has another form for acquiring parental consent.

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NPAL Mentoring Mentor Agreement
Template document that can be used to ensure mentors are aware of and commit to all of the requirements of the mentoring program.

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NPAL Mentoring Mentor Application
Template document used to screen prospective mentors

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NPAL Mentoring Youth Application
Template document used to identify mentee interests and needs for reporting purposes and to assist in developing appropriate matches

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Spanish Language Forms
Forms translated into Spanish

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NPAL – Mentoring Match Tracking Sheet
Attendance tracking sheet that shows youth/mentor matches as well as mentee attendance. This version is set up for a 1:7 mentor to mentee ration. An attendance sheet will need to be uploaded with each monthly report and quarterly reports.

Due Date: Monthly

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The National PAL Mentoring Program - Mentor Training Survey
All mentors must complete the mentor training prior to beginning their mentoring. To successfully complete this training and participate as a National PAL mentor you will be required to take a brief survey to acknowledge your understanding of the mentor training material. Please note that each mentor must complete their own individual survey and pass with a score of 100%.

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National PAL Youth Survey
This survey can be used to quantify the number of youth exhibiting an improved perception of social support (question on quarterly progress reports).

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Becoming A Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People
This resource can be used by mentors to identify different strategies to support their mentees.

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Webinars

NPAL New Grantees Informational Session
This webinar is intended as an information resource for PAL Chapters that have not previously run the NPAL Mentoring program.

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Beau Biden Foundation – Shield of Protection Informational Webinar

More information coming soon

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NPAL Mentoring Program Implementation (MOA Walkthrough) Webinar
This webinar will walk you through all requirements of the NPAL Mentoring program (using the MOA as a guide).

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NPAL Mentoring Budget Development Webinar
This webinar will answer some common questions about the budget development process and walk you through how to enter the budget on the online reporting site.

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NPAL Reimbursement Request Process
This webinar will walk you through the process for submitting a reimbursement request on the online reporting site.

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Progress Report and Youth Data Webinar
This webinar walks you through the process of completing a monthly progress report, entering youth data and assigning youth to a grant.

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The National PAL Mentoring Program - Mentor Training Webinar
All mentors must complete the mentor training prior to beginning their mentoring. To successfully complete this training and participate as a National PAL mentor you will be required to take a brief survey to acknowledge your understanding of the mentor training material. Please note that each mentor must complete their own individual survey and pass with a score of 100%.

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The National PAL Mentoring Program - Mentor Training Slides
All mentors must complete the mentor training prior to beginning their mentoring. To successfully complete this training and participate as a National PAL mentor you will be required to take a brief survey to acknowledge your understanding of the mentor training material. Please note that each mentor must complete their own individual survey and pass with a score of 100%.

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National PAL Mentoring Program - New Staff Training - Program
All new program staff who will be working on the NPAL Mentoring program are required to view this webinar as part of their on-boarding process.

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Training Mentoring Coordinators on the Elements of Effective Practice
This webinar, conducted by Dr. Susan G.Weinberger at the Mentor Consulting Group, provides an overview of effectivementoring practices to implement at your organization.

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Recruiting Native Youth
This webinar, the second in a series conductedby Dr. Susan G. Weinberger at the Mentor Consulting Group, walks through someideas for recruiting Native American/Alaska Native mentees and mentors to your PAL.

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The Opioid Crisis: Role of Mentors
This webinar, the third in aseries conducted by Dr. Susan G. Weinberger at the Mentor Consulting Group,walks through some ideas for working with youth and families impacted by theopioid crisis.

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What's New/System Updates

This area will show you any updates that have been made to the system recently, along with detail as to whether this change will affect how you use the system and any changes that you will need to make to the how you are using the system.
New Webinar 04/08/2018
New training resource added on 12/13/2020.Click here to view the webinar recording.
Ability to delete Youth Data records 04/08/2018
You can now delete Youth Data records. Deleting these records will not remove the Youth record from the system, it will only remove them from the selected Grant Year.
Youth Data tab available to assign youth to a specific grant 03/12/2018
You can assign youth to a grant through the Youth Data tab. Youth can be assigned to more than one grant if they participated in more than one year of the program. Youth should be made 'active' within the current grant program so that they show up as currently served. Step-by-step instructions can be found here.
UEI/SAM.gov registration status and deadline now available on About tab 03/12/2018
The About tab shows your organization's UEI number and expiration in the SAM.gov system. When you update your SAM.gov registration, you can submit for your SAM.gov expiration date to be updated by clicking on "Update SAM.gov Date". When you enter a new expiration date and click on "Save and Close" your updated expiration date will be confirmed and then updated in the system.
Change to entering personnel start and end date 03/01/2018
The personnel section of the Budget form has been updated to include the employee start date and end date. Budgets approved prior to this update will convert the ‘effective date’ originally used to the ‘start date’ and will default the ‘end date’ to the end of the grant. You may change these dates during a budget modification process and the system will calculate the amount using the adjusted start and end dates entered.
Ability to filter grants on the Reimbursements and Active Sub-grant tab 03/01/2018
The subgrant and reimbursement page has been redesigned to allow for filtering the list by grant or status as well as searching by sub-grant name.
Monthly Reports available under Programs tab 03/01/2018
Monthly Reports are now live under the Programs tab. A webinar to assist you in completing your monthly report will be uploaded here soon.
"Approved Amount" added to reimbursement request line items 03/01/2018
In order to expedite the reimbursement review process, NPAL will now be able to approve any particular line item for less than the amount submitted. If this happens NPAL or FirstPic will reach out to the site first to explain why this is being done and a note will be included with the line item.