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Testifying in Court about Trauma: The Court Hearing
This tip sheet helps clinicians prepare to testify in court regarding trauma (PDF, 7 pages) and its impact on children. It provides insight into the different types of cases and tips on how to testify effectively.
ChooseMyPlate.gov
Choose my Plate offers personalized eating plans, interactive tools to help you plan and assess your food choices, and advice to help you make better choices.'
Stay Healthy at College With MyPlate On Campus
The MyPlate On Campus Initiative aims to spread healthy eating messages to college students to empower them to improve their eating and exercise habits and encourage their peers to do the same. MyPlate On Campus offers tools, such as a tracker that develops personalized nutrition and activity plans for users, and tip sheets on topics such as choosing healthy snacks and creative ways to exercise. Students interested in promoting wellness at their schools can become MyPlate On Campus Ambassadors and gain leadership experience while hosting fitness and healthy eating activities for their fellow students.
Resource: 2015 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) Data
This resource includes 2015 BRFSS data and related information. The BRFSS is a state-based surveillance system that uses survey phone calls to collect information on risk behaviors, clinical preventive health practices, and health care access for adults 18 and older.
Report: Expenditures on Children by Families, 2015
This report presents the most recent estimates of expenditures by families on children annually across childhood and adolescence. The report indicates that a middle-income married-couple family will spend between $12,350 and $13,900 annually, or $233,610 from birth through age 17, on child-rearing expenses.
Teen Action Toolkit: Building a Youth-led Response to Teen Victimization
Developed by COPS and the National Center for Victims of Crime, this resource is hands-on implementation guide for the Teen Action Partnership (TAP) for Teen Victims (PDF, 150 pages) program, which harnesses youth as leaders, in partnership with adults, to transform their communities’ response to teenage victims of crime. The toolkit guides educators, law enforcement personnel, outreach workers, victim service providers, youth workers, and teens through the four phases of TAP for Teen Victims, and includes ideas for activities and reflections.
Tribal Justice and Safety
The site features the latest announcements, press releases, speeches and information regarding Department of Justice initiatives in tribal communities. It also provides comprehensive resources available through the Office of Tribal Justice and the Department's grant-making divisions: the Office of Justice Programs, Community Oriented Policing Services and the Office on Violence Against Women. Access to the Department's Combined Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) is also available on the Web site.
Expanding K–12 Financial Education
Working to advance or implement youth financial education? Our updated Resource Guide connects you to information, insights, and best practices about what works in advancing K-12 financial education.
Personal Finance Teaching Tool
Identify teaching techniques and learning strategies to address the three building blocks that influence the development of lifelong personal finance decision-making skills.
Curriculum Review Tool
Our Curriculum Review Tool helps you review and compare financial education curricula across four key dimensions, so you can select the most promising ones for your classroom.
How Kids Develop Money Skills
Most people get their money habits and skills from their parents and caregivers. (Probably you did too!) That’s why we think it’s important to give parents and caregivers some background in how children develop, financially.
Youth Financial Education: Developing Executive Function
Basic skills and attitudes form early and lay the foundation for later financial well-being. When children are ages 3 to 5, help them learn to stay focused, make plans, follow directions, complete tasks, and solve problems.
Youth Financial Education: Executive Function Activities
This page provides information and resources to help parents and caregivers teach young children the basic skills needed for a bright financial future.
Youth Financial Education: Building Money Habits and Values
Kids in middle childhood begin to absorb and interact with the financial world around them. When children are ages 6 to 12, help them with rules of thumb and day-to-day habits that shape how they earn, save, and shop.
Youth Financial Education: Money Habits and Values Activities
This resource shares what parents and caregivers can do to help their children develop positive financial attitudes, habits, and shortcuts during middle childhood. It provides suggestions for activities to do with children as well as where to find additional information.
Youth Financial Education: Practicing Money Skills and Decision-making
Making their own financial decisions starts to set teens and young adults apart. When children are ages 13 to 21, you can give them chances to make money choices, experience natural consequences, and reflect on their decisions.
Youth Financial Education: Practicing money skills and decision-making
Making their own financial decisions starts to set teens and young adults apart. When children are ages 13 to 21, you can give them chances to make money choices, experience natural consequences, and reflect on their decisions.
Money As You Grow Book Shelf
You can use the Money as You Grow book club list for children ages 4 to 10 and get started reading together. Then, talk about money skills like planning for the future, setting goals, and sticking to them.
Money As You Grow: Facilitator's Guide
Booklet for facilitators who are implementing Money as You Grow Book Club.
Parent Guide: A Bargain for Frances
Booklet to accompany the book A Bargain for Frances, helping parents read and discuss money topics with their children.
Parent Guide: A Chair for Mother
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “A Chair for my Mother” by Vera Williams.
Parent Guide: Alexander Who Used to Be Rich on Monday
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday” by Judith Viorst.
Parent Guide: Count on Pablo
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Count on Pablo” by Barbara deRubertis.
Parent Guide: Curious George Saves His Pennies
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Curious George Saves His Pennies” by Margaret and H.A. Rey.
Parent Guide: Just Shopping with Mom
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Just Shopping with Mom” by Mercer Mayer.