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Webinar: Meaningfully Engaging Young People: Principles, Strategies, and Success Stories

The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP) is sponsoring a webinar September 18, 2024, 12:00–1:00 pm ET, to help organizations working to improve youth and young adult outcomes learn more about how partnering with young people from the start leads to more effective and impactful outc

Supporting Suicide Prevention Among Youth

The latest IWGYP newsletter features resources for Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (Partner: HHS).

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Starting a Conversation

Find tips for families to start a conversation about preparing for disasters and emergencies during National Preparedness Month (Partner: DHS Ready.gov).

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Empowering Kin Caregivers

Explore resources to empower kin caregivers to find the supports they need to help the children in their care thrive during National Kinship Care Month (Partner: HHS Children's Bureau).

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Sustaining Efforts to Boost Student Attendance

Learn how schools, districts, and states can promote regular school attendance and enhance family and student engagement as a focal point of support student achievement during Attendance Awareness Month (Partner: ED Office of Elementary & Secondary Education).

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Announcements

Resource: Preventing Substance Use Among Young Adults with Disabilities

Posted | Sep 09 2024

This advisory highlights the need for primary substance use prevention programs for young adults ages 18 to 25 with disabilities, provides guidance to prevention specialists on designing and tailoring these programs, and describes factors that may affect the delivery of prevention.

Learn more.

Resource: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Well-Being and Success: Strategies for Educators and School-Based Staff

Posted | Sep 09 2024

This fact sheet (PDF, 5 pages) is designed to enhance state and district implementation of the Guiding Principles for Creating Safe, Inclusive, Supportive, and Fair School Climates to ensure that all students have the opportunity to learn in environments that are safe, inclusive, supportive, and fair.

Learn more (PDF, 5 pages).

Resource: Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults

Posted | Sep 06 2024

This guide (PDF, 66 pages) reviews the literature on prevention of e-cigarette use—also called vaping—among youth, distills the research into recommendations for practice, and provides examples of the ways these recommendations can be implemented.

Learn more (PDF, 66 pages).