Breadcrumb
- Federal Resources
Federal Resources
Filter by Agency
- 21st CCLC Professionals (1)
- Administration for Children and Families (20)
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (1)
- AmeriCorps (9)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (7)
- Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) (1)
- Employment and Training Administration (1)
- Family and Youth Services Bureau (7)
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (1)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (31)
- Forest Service (1)
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (1)
- National 4-H Headquarters (1)
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture (9)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (1)
- Office of Adolescent Health (2)
- Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (1)
- Office of Innovation and Improvement (1)
- Office of Justice Programs (1)
- (-) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (5)
- Office of Safe and Healthy Students (6)
- Office of Special Education Programs (1)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (1)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) (1)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (1)
- Office of Victims of Crime (1)
- Public and Indian Housing Division (1)
- Reserve Affairs (1)
- (-) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (6)
Filter by Department
Filter by Topic
- Afterschool (3)
- Bullying (5)
- Child Welfare (1)
- Collaboration (3)
- Community Development (3)
- Disabilities (2)
- Education (17)
- Employment & Training (2)
- Gang Prevention (18)
- Health and Nutrition (14)
- Juvenile Justice (129)
- LGBTQ (5)
- Mental Health (59)
- Mentoring (7)
- Parenting (1)
- (-) Positive Youth Development (8)
- Program Development (7)
- Safety (4)
- School Climate (1)
- Substance Use/Misuse (41)
- Teen Dating Violence (3)
- Teen Driver Safety (1)
- Trafficking of Youth (4)
- Transition Age Youth (1)
- Violence Prevention & Victimization (42)
- (-) Youth Preparedness (3)
- Youth Suicide Prevention (3)
Make a Friend-Be a Peer Mentor
This Bulletin explains to youth how peer mentoring works, how to become a peer mentor, and how to create and maintain a strong peer mentor network.
National Mentoring Resource Center
The goal of the National Mentoring Resource Center is to improve the quality and effectiveness of mentoring across the country by supporting youth mentoring practitioners.
PEPNet: Connecting Juvenile Offenders to Education and Employment
This factsheet discusses the process and criteria behind PEPnet, a practice-based system that identifies and promotes effective youth development and employment programs and maintains an extensive database resource.
Public/Private Ventures' Evaluation of Faith-Based Programs
This factsheet reports the initial findings of a demonstration project to observe faith-based organizations providing services to at-risk youth. The project hopes to foster better connections between these organizations and other institutions.
Underage Drinking Training Center
(UDET) Center is to create healthier and safer environments in States, local communities, and Federal entities engage in environmental prevention and enforcement practices that proactively and effectively limit youth access to alcohol and significantly reduce harmful consequences associated with alcohol use by underage youth
Resource: Top 10 Tips for Engaging with Young People
This guide (PDF, 4 pages) advises service providers and others how to engage successfully with youth, using specific examples to illustrate effective (and ineffective) communication.
Resource: SAMHSA’S Youth Engagement Guidance
This resource includes information and tools that can help federal staff and contractors appropriately engage youth before, during, and after government-sponsored events and meetings.
Resource: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Youth Engagement Guidance
This resource guides administrators and prevention professionals on how to appropriately engage youth in government-sponsored events and meetings. Includes resources regarding a youth services approach, youth development, youth leadership, civic engagement, and youth organizing.
Resource: Mass Violence and Behavioral Health
This bulletin (PDF, 18 pages), developed by SAMHSA’s Disaster Technical Assistance Center, describes how mass violence affects the behavioral health of adult, adolescent, and child survivors or witnesses of a mass violence incident. It illustrates the phases of response experienced by survivors, provides information on immediate and long-term interventions, and addresses the effects of media exposure following a mass violence incident. Public health, behavioral health, and emergency management professionals can use this resource to improve disaster behavioral health preparedness plans.
Slide Deck and Webcast: Disaster Anniversaries
These resources contain practical guidance for helping survivors cope with disaster anniversaries and promote healing and resilience within disaster-affected communities.
Disaster Anniversary Training
These training materials help prepare disaster recovery programs to support communities through disaster anniversaries.