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Gang Resistance and Education Program
The G.R.E.A.T. Program is a school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. With prevention as its primary objective, the program is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership.
Why Youth Join Gangs
OJJDP, BJA, and the National Gang Center developed “Why Youth Join Gangs,” an online video that features (a) gang researchers and practitioners providing their perspectives on gang joining and (b) youth sharing their gang experiences. The video highlights risk factors that may play a role in a youth’s decision to join a gang and behaviors that might be observed when interacting with youth at high risk of joining a gang.
Parents’ Guide to Gangs: Now Available in Spanish
NGC has published a Spanish version of the Parents' Guide to Gangs. This resource is designed to provide parents with answers to common questions about gangs and to help them recognize and prevent gang involvement.
Resource: Redesigned National Gang Center Website
This redesigned website features new focus areas on criminal justice, communities and research, an inquiries section for quicker responses from staff, new forms to request technical assistance, the National Gang Center blog, and OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model tools. Communities can utilize these resources in their gang prevention, intervention, and suppression efforts.
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.
Parent Guide: Lemonade in Winter
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money” by Emily Jenkins.
Parent Guide: Lemonade in Winter
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money” by Emily Jenkins.
Parent Guide: My Rows and Piles of Coins
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “My Rows and Piles of Coins” by Tololwa M. Mollel.