Breadcrumb
- Federal Resources
Federal Resources
Filter by Agency
- Administration for Children and Families (16)
- AmeriCorps (1)
- (-) Bureau of Indian Affairs (2)
- Bureau of Justice Assistance (8)
- Bureau of Justice Statistics (1)
- (-) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (8)
- Community Oriented Policing Services (1)
- Employment and Training Administration (1)
- Family and Youth Services Bureau (11)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (2)
- General Accounting Office (1)
- Grants.gov (1)
- Health Resources and Services Administration (1)
- National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth (1)
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (1)
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture (3)
- National Institute of Justice (9)
- National Science Foundation (1)
- NDTAC (8)
- Off ice of Justice Programs (1)
- (-) Office of Civil Rights (2)
- Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services (2)
- Office of Justice Programs (61)
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (129)
- Office of Policy and Research (2)
- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (1)
- Office of Special Education Programs (1)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (1)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (1)
- Office of Tribal Justice (1)
- Office of Victims of Crime (2)
- Office of Violence Against Women (2)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (3)
Filter by Topic
- Afterschool (8)
- Bullying (6)
- Child Welfare (1)
- Civic Engagement (1)
- Collaboration (1)
- Community Development (3)
- Disabilities (4)
- Education (28)
- Employment & Training (10)
- Family & Community Engagement (1)
- Gang Prevention (1)
- Health and Nutrition (136)
- (-) Juvenile Justice (4)
- LGBTQ (4)
- Mental Health (21)
- Mentoring (1)
- Native Youth (1)
- Parenting (2)
- Positive Youth Development (2)
- (-) Program Development (8)
- Runaway and Homeless Youth (1)
- Safety (21)
- School Climate (3)
- Substance Use/Misuse (33)
- Teen Dating Violence (11)
- Teen Driver Safety (13)
- Teen Pregnancy (7)
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention (14)
- Transition Age Youth (5)
- Violence Prevention & Victimization (32)
- Youth Preparedness (6)
- Youth Suicide Prevention (3)
Native American Traditional Justice Practices
“Expert Working Group Report: Native American Traditional Justice Practices” (PDF, 35 pages) summarizes discussions and recommendations from a meeting about federal efforts to support the use of traditional Native American justice interventions to respond to criminal and delinquent behavior. The meeting was held in April 2013 and included 14 experts from multidisciplinary communities.
Resource: Updated Model Indian Juvenile Code
This resource (PDF, 3 pages) serves as a framework to help tribes interested in creating or enhancing their own codes that focus on juvenile justice. This model code encourages the use of alternatives to detention and confinement while focusing on community-based, multi-disciplinary responses to juvenile delinquency, truancy, and child-in-need services.
CDCynergy
CDCynergy is a multimedia CD-ROM used for planning, managing, and evaluating public health communication programs. The tool was originally created for use within CDC. In addition to the basic edition, CDC program and partners have created additional versions of the tool focused on specific health topics. Copies of the CD can be ordered from the Public Health Foundation.
Coordinated School Health Program
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Student (WSCC), is recommended by CDC as a strategy for improving students' health and learning in our nation’s schools. These site outline the rationale and goals for WSCC, provide a model framework for planning and implementing WSCC, and offer resources to help schools, districts, and states improve their school health programs.
Evaluation Manual: Step 1 – Engage Stakeholders
This 10-page document outlines typical stakeholder groups in public health programs, explains why stakeholders are important to evaluations and their role in evaluations, and also includes a checklist for steps in engaging stakeholders as well as a number of worksheets to help identify key stakeholders and determine what program related issues matter to them.
Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health
This is a 58-page report which introduces the CDC’s framework for program evaluation and its key concepts. It provides in-depth outline of the 6 six steps in program evaluation (engaging stakeholders, describing the program, focusing the evaluation design, gathering credible evidence, justifying conclusions, and ensuring use and sharing lessons learned), as well as 4 standards for effective evaluation (utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy).
Healthy Youth - Evaluation
CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health provides evaluation technical assistance to Funded Partners through a variety of evaluation resources and tools.
Improving the Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities
This guidance document, developed in collaboration with the National Initiative to Improve Adolescent Health, is designed to help guide state and local agencies and organizations through public health processes that address important adolescent health and safety issues
Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs
This document is a "how to" guide for planning and implementing evaluation activities. The manual is based on CDC's Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health, and is intended to assist state, local, and community managers and staff of public health programs in planning, designing, implementing, and using the results of comprehensive evaluations in a practical way.
CDC’s Clear Communication Index Widget
CDC’s Clear Communication Index Widget is a research-based tool designed to help agencies communicate clearly with their intended audiences. Using four introductory questions and 20 scored items drawn from scientific literature, agencies can use the index to inform the design of a new communications product, assess the clarity of a product before or after public release, and/or foster collaboration between writers or reviewers.
Supporting the Success of Youth in Juvenile Justice Settings
On February 25, 2015, OCR and the Choice Program at UMBC partnered to host a symposium on supporting the education of young people in juvenile justice settings. At the event, young people who have had brushes with the law shared how the Choice Program is helping them to turn their lives around.
Report: Sexual Victimization in Prisons, Jails, and Juvenile Correctional Facilities
This report (PDF, 97 pages) presents the findings of the Review Panel on Prison Rape. The Panel gathered information on the practices of selected correctional institutions that had either a low or a high prevalence of inmate sexual victimization and made recommendations that aim to help eliminate sexual victimization in prisons, jails, and juvenile correctional facilities.