Announcements

This webinar explored how clinicians can use motivational interviewing as a valuable tool in suicide risk assessment. The webinar’s presenter introduced the core principles and techniques of motivational interviewing and briefly describes how it can be integrated with existing suicide risk assessment strategies. At the end of the overview, the presenter suggested next steps for pursuing skills-based training to apply motivational interviewing in clinical practice. Learn more.

This fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) provides information about the drug carfentanil, its prevalence, and the overdose dangers associated with this highly potent opioid. Learn more (PDF, 2 pages).

This tip sheet (PDF, 1 page) offers a starting point for integrating prevention strategies into a comprehensive school safety program. Prevention encompasses the actions K–12 schools and school districts can take to stop, avoid, or deter school safety threats or incidents and create safer learning environments. Learn more (PDF, 1 page). 

This website features resources that can support people who work with Tribal communities, organizations, and individuals in promoting and accessing culturally appropriate suicide prevention and postvention information and tools. Learn more.

This fact sheet (PDF, 6 pages) outlines how institutions of higher education core planning teams can plan for potential bomb threats through the creation and modification of an emergency operations plan that addresses the threat in a Bomb Threat Annex. Learn more (PDF, 6 pages). 

This Kahoot game quizzes users on their knowledge of various education statistics, including graduation rates, annual salary of workers with a bachelor’s degree, and more. Learn more.

This network is a portal where families, and local organizations that serve families, can access resources on substance use or misuse provided by federal, state, and local agencies and national and local nonprofit organizations. Learn more.

This toolkit is designed to help social workers and other behavioral health clinicians conduct effective suicide risk assessment. It contains a comprehensive overview, a resource guide, and clinical practice scripts that can be useful for a broad range of clinical professionals, including graduate students and instructors, early career clinicians, and experienced practitioners seeking to bolster their skills in this critical area. Learn more. 

This resource (PDF, 9 pages) describes territorial reinforcement, a crime prevention through environmental design principle that uses design elements to define ownership of and the intended use of spaces on campus. Territorial reinforcement strategies aim to clearly define who belongs in the space and who does not. Learn more (PDF, 9 pages). 

This webpage presents programs and interventions that Suicide Prevention Resource Center experts have reviewed to ensure alignment with the most current guidance on preventing suicide. Each listed program or intervention has demonstrated effectiveness in preventing suicide or directly addressing factors that impact suicide prevention. Learn more.

This fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) describes the origins, appearances, and effects of vaping and marijuana concentrates. Learn more (PDF, 2 pages). 

This toolkit is a resource center for social media, video, print, radio, FAQs, messaging, and other marketing materials that can be used to promote the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. It is designed for states, territories, tribes, crisis centers, communities, emergency service providers, and other partners to communicate clearly about the 988 Lifeline and how it works. The toolkit now includes updated photography and print materials, a bus stop banner, and social media content that explains the difference between 988 and 911. Learn more. 

This collection of resources offers a variety of exercises to help school leaders get started with emergency drills. By making drills a regular part of the academic year, schools and institutions of higher education can normalize a culture of safety where every member is prepared. Learn more.

This report presents selected results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024 science assessment. The report includes national results on the performance of eighth-grade students. Results are presented in terms of an average overall science score (on a 0 to 300 scale), change in performance compared with previous NAEP Science administrations, and as percentages of students performing at or above three NAEP achievement levels: NAEP Basic, NAEP Proficient, and NAEP Advanced. Learn more.

This webpage defines human trafficking and provides tips to help protect young people from becoming a victim of trafficking. Learn more.

This guided document summarizes the experiences, insights, suggestions, and concerns shared by participants in Family Peer Support: Broadening the View, a virtual event hosted by SAMHSA’s Office of Recovery. The goal of this event was to ensure that those with lived experience as advocates, leaders, peer support providers, and—most important—family members could share their perspectives regarding the possible expansion of family peer support services. Learn more.

These data tables include fully edited and imputed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System fall 2024 collection. This collection included three survey components: Institutional Characteristics for the 2024–25 academic year, Completions covering the period July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, and 12-Month Enrollment for the 2023–24 academic year. Learn more.

These fact sheets provide detailed history, use, street names, scheduling status, and additional information of various drugs. Parents, educators, and other youth-serving professionals can review the fact sheets to stay up to date on current information about substances students may encounter. Learn more. 

This companion infographic report (PDF, 32 pages) provides user-friendly, visual representation of findings from Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: Results from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Learn more (PDF, 32 pages).

This survey collects detailed information on crime-related topics from the perspective of schools, including the frequency of school crime and violence, disciplinary actions, the presence and activities of school security staff, and school practices related to the prevention and reduction of crime. Learn more.