Breadcrumb
- Federal Resources
Federal Resources
Filter by Agency
- Administration for Children and Families (42)
- (-) Bureau of Justice Assistance (3)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (18)
- (-) Children’s Bureau (1)
- Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) (1)
- Family and Youth Services Bureau (27)
- Food and Drug Administration (1)
- National Center for Education Statistics (1)
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (1)
- (-) National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth (NCFY) (8)
- National Institute of Justice (1)
- Office of Adolescent Health (4)
- Office of Justice Programs (4)
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2)
- Office of Policy and Research (1)
- Office of Public Health and Science (1)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (1)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) (3)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (1)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (3)
Filter by Department
Filter by Topic
- Afterschool (1)
- (-) Children of Incarcerated Parents (4)
- Child Welfare (6)
- Disabilities (1)
- Education (5)
- Employment & Training (2)
- Family & Community Engagement (1)
- Financial Literacy (1)
- Gang Prevention (4)
- Health and Nutrition (3)
- Housing (1)
- Juvenile Justice (8)
- (-) LGBTQ (2)
- Mental Health (7)
- Mentoring (1)
- Native Youth (2)
- Parenting (5)
- Runaway and Homeless Youth (7)
- Substance Use/Misuse (3)
- Teen Dating Violence (1)
- Teen Pregnancy (1)
- (-) Teen Pregnancy Prevention (7)
- Trafficking of Youth (2)
- Transition Age Youth (3)
- Violence Prevention & Victimization (5)
National Reentry Resource Center
Funded by the Second Chance Act of 2008, and launched by the Council of State Governments Justice Center in 2009, the National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations, and corrections institutions working on prisoner reentry.
Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents: Trauma Prevention Policy
The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), in partnership with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) created a policy, Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents. The policy, which reflects input from subject-matter experts and stakeholders, provides strategies for law enforcement to improve their procedures for interactions with children when a parent is arrested.
Video: Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents Training
This training video shows children telling their own stories about how they were affected by the arrest of a parent, and demonstrates the core principles from the Model Policy for Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents (PDF, 38 pages), illustrating actions law enforcement officers can take to reduce trauma.
Supporting Families Impacted by Incarceration — A Dialogue with Experts
This report, developed by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Technical Assistance and Strategic Dissemination Center, is the outcome of a meeting that convened national child welfare experts on families impacted by incarceration. It features key issues around this topic for practitioners and identifies needed resources and tools to support the workforce and families, along with a practical framework of intervention points from arrest to release.
Research: Does Sexual Orientation Affect Teen Pregnancy Risk?
This article describes a study that used data from the 2005, 2007, and 2009 New York City Youth Risk Behavior Surveys to understand how sexual orientation affects high-school students' risk of getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant. Results show that a young person’s sexual orientation and the gender of their sexual partners was strongly linked with risk of getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant, suggesting that adolescent pregnancy prevention efforts focused exclusively on heterosexual young people may be too narrow.
Resource: Help Me Succeed: A Guide for Supporting Youth in Foster Care to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
This blog post describes a guide that provides ideas to professionals who work with foster youth on how to tailor teen pregnancy prevention programs to this population. The guide was developed with input from foster youth and alumni.
Resource: Apps Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy and Promote Youth Sexual Health
This slideshow highlights six free apps that can help youth avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
Share with Youth: Apps Promote Youth Sexual Health
This slideshow features free apps that can help youth avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. It includes a brief description of each app and a link to where it can be downloaded.
Resource: How Does Talking to Extended Family Influence Teens' Decisions About Sex?
This article highlights a recent study which examined why teens talk with extended family members about sex and what they discuss. The results indicate that almost 60% of teens in the study talked with extended family members about sex, and youth who said they talked exclusively to extended family members about sex were more than twice as likely to have had sex.
Resource: Six Subjects to Prepare Youth for Adulthood
This slideshow highlights the six FYSB adulthood preparation subjects that grantees of the Personal Responsibility Education Program teach to help prepare young people for adulthood. The slideshow also addresses how other youth-serving professionals can incorporate these subjects into their programs.
Resource: Helping Youth Prevent Suicide Among Their LGBTQ Peers
This article highlights free resources educators and youth service providers can use to implement the Trevor Project’s Lifeguard Workshop, a program encouraging young people to be “lifeguards” for one another by having the knowledge to help in a crisis. Professionals can request a free, in-person workshop or use the resources highlighted in the article to create personalized trainings.
Resource: Integrating Medical and Mental Health Care for Teen Moms
This article describes the mental health challenges teen moms face and highlights a Denver-based program that integrates mental health screening and treatment into their existing medical care.