Positive Youth Development

This guide (PDF, 90 pages) helps researchers examine implementation when studying the effectiveness of education interventions to improve student outcomes. The guide provides recommendations and specific steps on planning, collecting, analyzing, and reporting essential data related to intervention components, implementation fidelity, context, and treatment-control contrast. Learn more.  ...

This website describes the social issues that adolescents experience as they develop and provides tips on how parents and caregivers can support healthy social development. Learn more. 

This resource (PDF, 28 pages) defines and describes parent engagement through the lens of schools' health promotion activities. It outlines how parents, schools, and communities can work together to create an environment that facilitates the healthy development of children and adolescents. Learn more (PDF, 28 pages).  ...

This guide (PDF, 51 pages) describes tools and strategies for implementing a trauma-informed approach (TIA) in behavioral health prevention, treatment, and recovery. This guide highlights the need for organizational assessment of readiness and capacity before implementing TIA and describes strategies for such assessments. Implementation strategies for the following 10 domains ...

This report (PDF, 47 pages) describes the state of youth apprenticeship in the United States, reviews existing state youth apprenticeship systems, and describes the organization and partnerships of the Youth Apprenticeship Readiness grantees. Findings indicate the importance of considering how well youth of different ages are represented in the apprenticeship ...

This bulletin provides an overview of how military families can meet the needs of children and youth eligible for adoption. This bulletin also addresses the unique adoption concerns facing military families, such as permanent change of station orders and deployment overseas during the adoption process. Adoption professionals can use this ...

This advisory (PDF, 82 pages) emphasizes the important role that social connection plays in individual, community, and societal health. It offers recommendations for increasing and strengthening social connection through a whole-of-society approach. The advisory presents a framework for a national strategy to improve social connection with specific recommendations for the ...

This report (PDF, 21 pages) summarizes the available evidence on the effects of Good Behavior Game on student and teacher outcomes. The Good Behavior Game is a classroom management strategy that aims to improve social skills, minimize disruptive behaviors, and create a positive learning environment. Learn more.  ...