Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This guidance is intended for institutions of higher education (IHE) that offer education or instruction beyond the high school level, such as colleges and universities, including community and technical colleges. This guidance is split into four sections to support IHEs in their decision making: Section 1: Offer and Promote COVID-19 Vaccination Section ...

This webpage contains curriculum development resources to help childcare providers, early childhood educators, K-12 teachers, and university faculty recognize and respond to students’—and their family members’—health information and communication needs. This CDC guidance operates under the premise that teaching health literacy skills, or the ability to find, understand, and use ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN) Drinking Water Work Group developed this resource to promote access to drinking water practical tips to make sure students are hydrated, healthy, and ready to learn. Learn more (PDF, 1 page). ...

This guidance explains how schools can reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission during meal service by working with teachers, building managers, school nutrition staff, and custodians to maintain physical distancing, improve ventilation, ensure handwashing and/or sanitizing, staggering mealtimes for class cohorts, and expanding disinfection or sanitization practices to include makeshift ...

This toolkit includes instructional resources you can use when teaching your workforce how to apply health literacy practices. Developed by Health Literacy Texas, the toolkit’s materials can be used when teaching in person or remotely. Learn more.

This May, find out how connectedness, school climate, and family engagement can protect adolescent mental health.

This evidence-based approach to school-based HIV and STD prevention includes quality sexual health education, connecting students to sexual health services, and establishing safe and supportive school environments.

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Data Summary & Trends Report uses YRBS data from 2009 to 2019 to focus on four priority focus areas associated with STDs, including HIV and unintended teen pregnancy. Learn more.

The 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System results present a promising picture for some behaviors and experiences among high school students; however, other areas reveal that teens are still engaging in behaviors that put them at risk.