Breadcrumb
- Federal Resources
Federal Resources
Filter by Agency
- Administration for Children and Families (61)
- AmeriCorps (1)
- (-) Bureau of Indian Affairs (1)
- Bureau of Justice Assistance (3)
- Census Bureau (1)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (32)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (9)
- Employment and Training Administration (1)
- Family and Youth Services Bureau (51)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (1)
- Food and Drug Administration (6)
- General Accounting Office (1)
- General Services Administration (1)
- (-) Health Resources and Services Administration (2)
- National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (1)
- National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth (NCFY) (9)
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (1)
- National Institute of Justice (1)
- National Institute of Mental Health (1)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (1)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (2)
- National Institutes of Health (21)
- Off ice of Justice Programs (1)
- (-) Office of Adolescent Health (1)
- Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services (2)
- (-) Office of Community Planning and Development (1)
- Office of Justice Programs (8)
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (10)
- Office of National Drug Control Policy (5)
- Office of Public Health and Science (2)
- Office of Safe and Healthy Students (4)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (1)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) (2)
- (-) Office of the Surgeon General (1)
- (-) Office of Victims of Crime (8)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (35)
Filter by Topic
- Afterschool (3)
- Bullying (8)
- Child Welfare (2)
- Disabilities (1)
- Education (2)
- Employment & Training (2)
- Health and Nutrition (15)
- Juvenile Justice (4)
- Mental Health (4)
- Native Youth (1)
- Parenting (4)
- Positive Youth Development (2)
- Program Development (1)
- (-) Runaway and Homeless Youth (1)
- Safety (2)
- (-) Substance Use/Misuse (6)
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention (4)
- (-) Trafficking of Youth (7)
- Transition Age Youth (1)
- Violence Prevention & Victimization (10)
- Youth Preparedness (1)
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Human Services
The Office of Human Services in the Bureau of Indian Affairs promotes the safety, financial security and social health of Indian communities and individual Indian people.
Child Health USA
The Child Health USA Databook is an annual report of the health status, well-being and service needs of America's children and youth. Coalitions, program planners and policy makers can identify national trends by examining and comparing data from one year to the next. Indicators for youth, or adolescents, cover multiple issues, including childbearing, substance abuse, violence, mental health treatment, and mortality from traffic and firearms injuries. The section, Population Characteristics, provides information about poverty status and school dropouts. Each topic includes a written summary and at least one graph that clearly depicts key statistical facts.
Resource: Center for Integrated Health Solutions
This website features information to help healthcare providers and organizations learn about Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), an evidence-based practice used to identify, reduce, and prevent the use and abuse of alcohol and drugs. The site includes basic information, training materials, workflow charts and diagrams, and information on financing.
Preventing and Reducing Teen Tobacco Use
OAH has updated its information on teen tobacco use to include new data and resources, including information about e-cigarettes. This page provides information on:
- The health impact of teen tobacco use
- Trends in use
- Risk and protective factors that impact a teen’s likelihood of starting or stopping smoking
- Federal, state, and community strategies and approaches to preventing and reducing teen tobacco use
- Tips for parents on communicating with their teen about smoking
- Additional resources on adolescent tobacco use and services to help users quit
Report: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness: 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report
This annual report (PDF, 96 pages) provides a snapshot of homelessness, both sheltered and unsheltered, on a single night in late January in the U.S., including estimates for particular populations such as youth. The data show 35,686 unaccompanied homeless youth were counted. Eighty nine percent were between the ages of 18 and 24, and 11% were under the age of 18. There were 9,800 parenting young adults between 18 and 24 years of age, and 92 parents under the age of 18.
Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Spotlight on Opioids
This report provides the latest data on the prevalence of substance use, opioid misuse, opioid use disorders, opioid overdoses, and related harms. It also addresses prevention, treatment, and management of opioid use disorders and the progress to address the opioid epidemic.
A Circle of Healing for Native Children Endangered by Drugs
“A Circle of Healing for Native Children Endangered by Drugs” is a seven-part video series that highlights best practices for meeting the needs of drug-endangered youth in tribal communities. Produced in collaboration with tribal and federal partners, the videos feature testimonials and examples of cultural practices that tribal communities can use to help traumatized children who are healing from drug endangerment.
Office of Victims of Crime
The Office of Victims of Crime is committed to enhancing the nation’s capacity to assist crime victims and providing leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims of crime.
Office of Victims of Crime Initiatives
The Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, provides legal assistance for victims of human trafficking and funds the Wrap-Around Victims Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project and the Services for Trafficking Victims Grant Program to sustain services in communities.
Fiscal Years 2013-2014 Status Report for the Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States
OVC released “Fiscal Years 2013-2014 Status Report for the Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States” (PDF, 64 pages), a report that documents the progress that federal agencies made during 2013-2014 on each of the 250 action items in the plan related to human trafficking victim service improvements.
Online Training: Five New Modules for Victim Assistance Training (VAT)
VAT Online now offers five new online modules on the following topics: assault, campus/university victims of sexual assault, child abuse, ethics, and human trafficking.
Archived Webinar Series: Human Trafficking
Two webinar series can help professionals better serve survivors of human trafficking:
- Human Trafficking, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Assault: Strategies to Strengthen Community Collaboration to Respond to Survivors' Needs: This five-part webinar series offers strategies, practical tips, case studies, and resources to help domestic violence and sexual assault service providers improve outcomes for human trafficking survivors.
- Capacity Building Webinars for Human Trafficking Service Providers: This series provides information on key strategies for working with survivors of human trafficking. It covers legal issues, confidentiality, communicating with survivors, and helping survivors access employment and housing.
Faces of Human Trafficking Video Series
This video series provides information about sex and labor trafficking, multidisciplinary approaches to serving survivors of human trafficking, effective services, legal needs, and voices of survivors. The sixth video in the series specifically highlights the vulnerabilities, risk factors, and needs of youth, with a focus on the diverse range of professionals who are in a position to identify exploited youth and connect them with appropriate services. Service providers, law enforcement professionals, prosecutors, and others in the community can use this series to learn more about this important issue and their role in preventing and addressing it.
Support for Child Victims and Witnesses of Human Trafficking
This set of graphic novels is now available to help young trafficking survivors, ages 2–18, navigate the justice system as a victim or witness. These resources help youth understand the justice system, their rights, and roles of different practitioners. Practitioner and Caregiver Guides and excerpts of support from individuals with lived experience are included.