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Resource: High-Impact Instructional Practices Toolkit: Supporting Students in Poverty

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This toolkit provides educators with a collection of action guides they can use to strengthen core instruction across all classrooms, schools, and systems, with a particular focus on serving students and families living in poverty. Learn more.  

Resource: Child Maltreatment Prevention Resource Guide

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This guide (PDF, 12 pages) provides a list of resources for child maltreatment prevention to help state health departments expand and enhance their own child maltreatment prevention efforts. The resource guide is divided into five sections: Organizations; Data Sources, Data and Definitions; Policies, Laws and Legislation; Programs, Campaigns and Resources; and Publications. Learn more. 

Resource: Prevention With Purpose: A Resource for Engaging Student-Led Organizations

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This guide (PDF, 8 pages) describes the vital role student-led organizations play in creating safe and healthy campus environments that nurture student well-being and academic success. It offers strategies for encouraging and supporting student engagement in activities that prevent drug misuse and promote wellness. The goal of reaching out to student-led organizations can be to encourage and support them to implement evidence-based drug misuse prevention efforts or to request their help with a program or project. Learn more (PDF, 8 pages). 

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Adolescent Health
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Adolescence is an important time for promoting health and preventing disease.

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More than 2.1 million American Indians and Alaska Natives are under the age of 24.

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Nearly all young people hold at least one job between ages 18 and 25.

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