Breadcrumb
- Federal Resources
Federal Resources
Filter by Department
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (2)
- Department of Agriculture (9)
- Department of Commerce (3)
- (-) Department of Defense (5)
- Department of Education (68)
- Department of Health and Human Services (264)
- Department of Homeland Security (1)
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (7)
- Department of Justice (40)
- Department of Labor (23)
- (-) Department of the Interior (1)
- Department of Transportation (3)
- Environmental Protection Agency (2)
- Library of Congress (1)
- (-) Multiple Federal Partners (3)
- National Academies (2)
- Office of Management and Budget (1)
- Office of the Inspector General (3)
- (-) Social Security Administration (1)
- The White House (10)
- United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) (8)
- Virginia Dept of Juvenile Justice (1)
Filter by Topic
- (-) Afterschool (1)
- Bullying (1)
- Children of Incarcerated Parents (1)
- Child Welfare (1)
- Civic Engagement (5)
- Community Development (7)
- (-) Disabilities (2)
- Education (10)
- Employment & Training (7)
- Health and Nutrition (7)
- Juvenile Justice (2)
- (-) Mental Health (4)
- (-) Mentoring (1)
- Native Youth (1)
- Parenting (4)
- Positive Youth Development (3)
- Program Development (1)
- (-) Runaway and Homeless Youth (2)
- Safety (1)
- Service Learning (1)
- Substance Use/Misuse (1)
- Trafficking of Youth (1)
- Transition Age Youth (4)
- Violence Prevention & Victimization (1)
- Youth Preparedness (1)
Department of Defense STARBASE
The DoD STARBASE is an educational program sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. Students can participate in challenging "hands-on, mind-on" activities in aviation, science, technology, engineering, math, and space exploration. The program provides students with 20-25 hours of stimulating experiences at National Guard, Navy, Marine, Air Force Reserve and Air Force bases across the nation.
National Guard Youth Challenge Program
The mission of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program is to intervene in and reclaim the lives of at-risk youth to produce program graduates with the values, skills, education and self-discipline necessary to succeed as adults.
Online Community for Children of Military Families
MilitaryKidsConnect.org, a Department of Defense-sponsored website, features content for children, tweens, and teens of military families. The site provides an online community that allows these young people to support one another while learning coping and resilience-building skills
Resource: Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
This clearinghouse helps providers identify, select, and implement evidence-based programs and practices to address wide-ranging family and mental health issues. The searchable database includes effective and promising intervention programs as well as resources and strategies to ensure the welfare of military families.
Resource: Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP)
This program connects federal and private sector employers with college students and recent graduates with disabilities seeking summer or permanent employment. WRP recruiters from federal agencies conduct personal interviews with interested candidates, who are then included in a searchable database that is available to hiring officials in federal agencies. Colleges and universities can apply to host interviews with WRP recruiters, and students and employers can apply to gain access to the database.
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.
Finding Federal Funds
The National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth recently profiled The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) Funding and Programs List, which outlines which federal departments have programs that help prevent and end homelessness and includes programs specifically designed to assist homeless youth.
Harm Reduction: Advice from Leaders in the Field
The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) interviewed staff from three model programs using harm reduction to help youth experiencing homelessness.
Trauma-Informed Approaches: Federal Activities and Initiatives
This report illustrates how trauma-informed approaches (PDF, 77 pages) to serving women and girls have been implemented across more than a dozen federal agencies, departments, and offices through multiple projects, programs, and initiatives
Social Security Benefits For Children With Disabilities
This booklet is for the parents, caregivers or representatives of children younger than age 18 who have disabilities that might make them eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. It helps these individuals decide if their child is eligible.