Announcements

This fact sheet (PDF, 3 pages) offers culturally appropriate and trauma-informed strategies that promote positive childhood experiences (PCEs) and increase the emotional resilience of children, youth, and families. Learn more. 

This 30 second audio file is intended to promote 988 and its services for radio or podcast use. Learn more. 

This report (PDF, 26 pages) describes policies and practices that selected colleges have implemented to help survivors continue their education. The report also explores repayment options that can help eligible survivors manage their federal student loans. Learn more (PDF, 26 pages). 

This resource collection (PDF, 14 pages) features a selection of OCR guidance and resources that may be useful to postsecondary institutions throughout the academic year. Each resource is accompanied by a brief description and a link to full information online. Learn more (PDF, 14 pages). 

This tool (PDF, 22 pages) is designed to help state education agencies (SEAs), local education agencies (LEAs), and other educators work as a team to leverage relationships with young people and establish meaningful engagement. By using a continuous improvement process, teams at local, district, and state levels will collaboratively assess current youth engagement practices, identify gaps, determine improvement practices that align with the components of authentic engagement, and prioritize practices to implement. Teams will then create an actionable plan to monitor and adjust practices for continuous improvement with the goal of effectively engaging a diverse range of youth and their families to improve school engagement and attendance supports and outcomes. Learn more (PDF, 22 pages). 

This discussion guide (PDF, 13 pages) helps state and local education agency (SEA and LEA) teams identify and consider changes to attendance policies and practices to better align them with equity considerations. The guide invites teams to explicitly focus on one or more groups of students as part of increasing equity in attendance-related work. In addition to considering family income or socioeconomic status of student groups, the guide encourages consideration of other student groups that chronic absenteeism may disproportionately affect, including students grouped by racial/ethnic identity, physical or cognitive ability, and/or circumstances such as housing stability. Learn more (PDF, 13 pages). 

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) is April 21–27, 2024. The 2024 theme, How would you help? Options, services, and hope for crime survivors, is a call-to-action to create safe environments for crime victims to share what happened to them. Learn more. 

The 2024 NCVRW Resource Guide artwork is now available to help organizations plan their public awareness activities before, during, and after NCVRW. Campaign materials include posters, bookmarks, buttons, name tags, web banners, ads, and more. The webpage also links to guidance on how to use the artwork. Learn more. 

This publication (PDF, 8 pages) provides an overview of marijuana use among young people and describes the physical, academic, and social consequences of marijuana use. The resource offers tips for how to help prevent marijuana use among young people and shares relevant federal resources. Learn more (PDF, 8 pages). 

This webinar recording highlights the role of athletic directors in school safety, security, emergency management, and preparedness. During this webinar, presenters demonstrated the importance of developing a collaborative planning team to support emergency operations plan (EOP) development. Presenters reinforced how athletic directors contribute to EOP development and ensure student, coach, and visitor safety at both on-campus and off-campus athletic events. Learn more. 

This report (PDF, 94 pages) presents findings from the 2021–22 School Survey on Crime and Safety data collection. The report examines a range of issues dealing with school crime and safety, including the frequency of school crime and violence, disciplinary actions, the presence and activities of school security staff, and school practices related to maintaining a safe school environment. Learn more. 

This webpage contains brief video presentations about research on designing, implementing, and evaluating Grow Your Own (GYO) programs. The webpage also highlights presentations by GYO programs across the country. Learn more. 

This fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) shares resources to help child welfare professionals support the health, well-being, and cultural connectivity of Native youth while they journey into adulthood. Learn more. 

This brief (PDF, 15 pages) assesses whether and how rates of substance use and substance use disorder (SUD) among adults (ages 18 and older) differ by race and ethnicity. Findings are based off five years of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Learn more. 

This set of revised guides provides information to help school mental health systems advance the quality of their services and supports. The Quality Guides contain action steps, best practices, and examples from the field for the following topics: 

• Teaming (PDF, 24 pages) 

• Needs assessment and resource mapping (PDF, 17 pages) 

• Screening (PDF, 25 pages) 

• Mental health promotion services and supports (Tier 1) (PDF, 32 pages) 

• Early intervention and treatment services and supports (Tiers 2 and 3) (PDF, 21 pages) 

• Funding and sustainability (PDF, 20 pages) 

• Impact (PDF, 17 pages) 

Learn more. 

NCES’s Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates program (EDGE) makes postsecondary school location data available through these data tools and web services: 

• Geographic data homepage - This tool offers raw data files containing the coordinate points and other geospatial characteristics of postsecondary institutions. 

• Open Data Site - This service allows users to view postsecondary institutions on a map of the United States, add the postsecondary institution data layer to existing maps, or download individual components of the data layer. 

• Locale Lookup tool - This tool allows users to search for postsecondary schools and view them in the context of the NCES locale boundaries, a 12-category classification of cities, suburbs, towns, and rural areas. 

Learn more. 

This brief (PDF, 20 pages) reviews the eligibility pathways that enable children and youth in foster care to receive Medicaid or other health-care coverage. The brief provides resources to help young people understand their health-care options and to help child welfare agencies assist children, youth, and families in accessing health-care services. Learn more. 

This bulletin (PDF, 31 pages) provides a brief overview of racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system. The resource describes practices that child welfare caseworkers, administrators, program managers, and policymakers can implement to address these issues in general and at specific decision-making points along the child welfare continuum. Learn more. 

This guide (PDF, 20 pages) explores how caseworkers can identify and support young people who have been victimized and those with risk factors for future victimization. The guide provides background information about trafficking, strategies to identify and support victims and potential victims, and links to tools and resources that can assist caseworkers. Learn more. 

This fact sheet (PDF, 8 pages) provides information and strategies for addressing opioid overdoses at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs) through emergency operations plans (EOPs) and other preparedness activities. Learn more.