Breadcrumb
- Federal Resources
Federal Resources
Filter by Department
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (2)
- (-) Department of Agriculture (9)
- Department of Commerce (2)
- Department of Defense (3)
- Department of Education (30)
- Department of Health and Human Services (48)
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (1)
- Department of Justice (8)
- Department of Labor (12)
- Department of the Interior (1)
- Department of the Treasury (2)
- Department of Transportation (25)
- Library of Congress (1)
- National Academies (1)
- (-) Office of the Inspector General (3)
- Social Security Administration (1)
Filter by Topic
- (-) Afterschool (9)
- Children of Incarcerated Parents (1)
- Civic Engagement (5)
- Collaboration (2)
- Community Development (16)
- Disabilities (1)
- Education (9)
- Employment & Training (2)
- Health and Nutrition (32)
- Housing (3)
- Mental Health (1)
- Mentoring (1)
- Parenting (3)
- Positive Youth Development (13)
- Program Development (3)
- Reconnecting Youth (1)
- Runaway and Homeless Youth (1)
- (-) Service Learning (4)
- Teen Pregnancy (1)
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention (1)
- (-) Transition Age Youth (2)
- Violence Prevention & Victimization (1)
4-H Military Partnerships
The National 4-H Headquarters, at USDA has established formal partnerships with Army Child and Youth Services, Air Force Airmen and Family Services, Army Child and Youth Services and Navy Child and Youth Programs to support positive youth development education for youth whose parents are serving in the military.
4-H Afterschool
4-H Afterschool is a special focused effort within the 4-H Youth Development Program that helps 4-H and other youth-serving organizations create and improve after-school programs in urban, suburban, and rural communities across the United States.
4-H Youth Development Program
The 4-H Youth Development Program is the only national organization that is federally mandated to conduct positive youth development programs. The program works to improve knowledge and skills of young people (their Heads, Hearts, Hands, and Health) and the quality of life in the communities in which they live.
Cooperative Extension System
The CES, administered by over 130 land grant universities and anchored in all 3,150 counties across the country, is a network of academically trained university faculty and staff who provide a broad array of staff training, curriculum, community collaboration building, evaluation, resource development, and other expertise and resources to out-of-school time programs.
National 4-H Headquarters
National 4-H Headquarters, United States Department of Agriculture. 4-H is the largest youth organization in the United States for children and youth ages 5 to 19. Visit the Cooperative Extension Office near you to find a 4-H program in your community
National Network for Child Care
NNCC unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension. Our goal is to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the land grant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners, and the general public.
Rural Information Center
The Rural Information Center (RIC) provides services for rural communities, local officials, organizations, businesses and rural citizens working to maintain the vitality of America's rural areas.
The Food and Nutrition Information Center
The Food and Nutrition Information Center - a leader in food and human nutrition information dissemination since 1971 - provides credible, accurate, and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel and consumers.
USDA 1890 National Scholars Program
The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program is aimed at bolstering educational and career opportunities for students from rural or underserved communities around the country. The scholarship provides recipients with full tuition, fees, books, and room and board to attend one of the 1890 land-grant universities and pursue degrees in agriculture, food, natural resource sciences, or related academic disciplines. The scholarship may also include work experience at USDA.
AmeriCorps
Each year, AmeriCorps offers 75,000 opportunities for young people of all backgrounds to serve through a network of partnerships with local and national nonprofit groups.
AmeriCorps Resource Center
The Knowledge Networks page, on the AmeriCorps website, provides training and technical assistance resources organized by focus area. It connects service programs with targeted training and information.
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) supports the service-learning community in higher education, kindergarten through grade twelve, community-based organizations, tribal programs, and all others interested in strengthening schools and communities using service-learning.