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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.
Parent Guide: The Berenstein Bears and Mama's New Job
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Berenstain Bears & Mama’s New Job” by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
Parent Guide: The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Money
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Berenstain Bears’ Trouble with Money” by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
Parent Guide: The Ox Cart Man
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Ox-Cart Man” by Donald Hall.
Parent Guide: The Purse
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Purse” by Kathy Caple.
Parent Guide: The Rag Coat
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Rag Coat” by Lauren Mills.
Teaching Financial Capability — Resources for Teachers
This website shares resources for teachers to incorporate financial education into their curriculum. It features a searchable database of more than 40 stand-alone classroom activities, a curriculum review tool to help educators evaluate materials, and effective strategies for incorporating the building blocks of financial capability into the classroom.
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment
The 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment is a comprehensive annual report developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety
The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation has created a pamphlet, which is designed to help parents, teachers, and providers begin to understand the complexities of on-line child exploitation.
Uniform Crime Reports
These reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation summarize arrest data from police agencies across the country, from 1995 to the present day. Topics covered include crime in the U.S., hate crime, and law enforcement officers killed and assaulted
IACP Launches No-Cost Online Training on Child Trafficking
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), in collaboration with COPS and the FBI’s Violent Crimes Against Children Section, released “Child Sex Trafficking: A Training Series for Frontline Officers.” This free, self-paced online course will educate frontline officers on how to recognize and respond to victims of child sex trafficking.
Vital Signs: Demographic and Substance Use Trends Among Heroin Users — United States, 2002-2013
FDA and CDC analyzed data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and National Vital Statistics System during 2002-2013 to assess trends in heroin use among demographic and particular substance-using groups. Results show that heroin use has increased significantly across most demographic groups. Results also suggest an increase in heroin abuse or dependence parallels the increase in heroin-related overdose deaths, and reflects heroin use is occurring in the context of broader poly-substance use.
Report: Frequency of Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students
Researchers from CDC and FDA analyzed data from the 2014 National Youth Tobacco Survey to determine how frequently middle school and high school students in the United States used cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco products. Among current users in high school, frequent use was most prevalent among smokeless tobacco users, followed by cigarette smokers, e-cigarette users, and cigar smokers. Among current users in middle school, frequent use was greatest among smokeless tobacco users, followed by cigarette smokers, cigar smokers, and e-cigarette users. Current use of two or more types of tobacco products was common.