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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
The Volunteer Clearinghouse
The Volunteer Clearinghouse serves the Corps of Engineers nationwide to link potential volunteers with Park Rangers at lakes and waterways that need them. It provides information about the volunteer program and directs people to the point of contact, usually a Park Ranger, at the lake or location of interest.
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.
2014 National Prevention Strategy Annual Status Report
The National Prevention Council released its 2014 Annual Status Report. The report illustrates progress in implementing the National Prevention Strategy and highlights the collective impact of the federal government and its partners to improve the health and quality of life for individuals, families, and communities
America's Young Adults: Special Issue, 2014
This special report on young adults in the United States, ages 18-24, includes data from nationally representative, federally sponsored surveys. Data are summarized under five key themes: education; economic circumstances; family formation; civic, social, and personal behavior; and health and safety.
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.
National Prevention Council 2013 Annual Status Report
This report illustrates how the 17 departments that make up the National Prevention Council are incorporating prevention into their work to improve the health of all Americans and meet the goals set forth in the National Prevention Strategy.
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
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.
Cheers to Five Years of Let's Move!
Over the past five years, Let’s Move!, a nationwide initiative led by first lady Michelle Obama to set children on a path to a healthy future, has engaged parents, business leaders, educators, elected officials, community and faith leaders, and kids themselves in the improvement of the health of our nation’s children.
Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships: Year of Action Highlights
“Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships: Year of Action Highlights” (PDF, 18 pages) highlights the partnerships the Administration has formed with faith-based and community organizations that have expanded support and opportunity for Americans.
New Tool to Reduce and Prevent Sexual Assault on Campus: Confidentiality
The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault has developed a new resource that can help colleges and univerisites in their efforts to address address sexual:
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Sample Reporting and Confidentiality Policy (PDF, 6 pages) inclues important elements for institutions to consider when drafting effective policies regarding reporting and confidentially disclosing sexual violence.
New Tool to Reduce and Prevent Sexual Assault on Campus: Climate
The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault has developed a new resource that can help colleges and univerisites in their efforts to address address sexual:
- Climate Surveys: Useful Tools to Help Colleges and Universities in Their Efforts to Reduce and Prevent Sexual Assault (PDF, 37 pages) provides an overview of how to plan and conduct a climate survey as part of a comprehensive effort to address sexual assault on campus, as well as an example of an empirically-informed survey based on best practices from the field.
New Tool to Reduce and Prevent Sexual Assault on Campus: Campus Sexual Misconduct
The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault has a new resource that can help colleges and univerisites in their efforts to address address sexual:
- Checklist for Campus Sexual Misconduct Policies (PDF, 7 pages) highlights elements that are particularly important for institutions to consider when drafting sexual misconduct policies as part of their overall response to sexual misconduct.
New Tool to Reduce and Prevent Sexual Assault on Campus: Building Partnerships with Local Rape Crisis Centers
The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault has developed a new resource that can help colleges and univerisites in their efforts to address address sexual:
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Building Partnerships with Local Rape Crisis Centers: Developing a Memorandum of Understanding (PDF, 5 pages) provides information on developing memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to strengthen sexual assault prevention and response programs by developing partnerships with local rape crisis centers.
New Tool to Reduce and Prevent Sexual Assault on Campus
The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault has developed a new resource that can help colleges and univerisites in their efforts to address address sexual:
- Building Partnerships among Law Enforcement Agencies,Colleges and Universities: Developing a Memorandum of Understanding to Prevent and Respond Effectively to Sexual Assaults at Colleges and Universities provides sample language that may be helpful to institutions of higher education and local law enforcement agencies as they formulate or update an MOU.
Opportunity for All: Supporting Asian American and Pacific Islander Families
This document outlines how President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2015 takes steps to support and create opportunities for Asian American and Pacific Islander families (PDF, 8 pages) in education, employment, health care, and economic growth.
The First Lady Has a Challenge for You: #GimmeFive
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of Let’s Move!, First Lady Michelle Obama is encouraging people to give out high-fives when they see someone making healthy choices. The First Lady is also asking Americans to #GimmeFive for things they are doing lead a healthier life by posting their accomplishments on social media and challenging friends and family to do the same.
Women and Girls of Color: Addressing Challenges and Expanding Opportunity
“Women and Girls of Color: Addressing Challenges and Expanding Opportunity” (PDF, 54 pages) highlights the work the Obama Administration has done to reduce barriers for women and girls of color and to promote their success in a number of areas, including education, health, and economic security.
Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life: Highlights from the First Lady's Visit to Milan Expo
As part of Let's Move!, the First Lady led the Presidential Delegation to the Milan Expo 2015, which promoted a global dialogue about the future of our food system. The First Lady and the Presidential Delegation shared the successes of Let's Move! and learned from other countries' leaders about how they are addressing childhood obesity and raising healthier families.
White House Campout
First Lady Michelle Obama invited 50 Girl Scouts from Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Oklahoma, and Washington, DC, to participate in the first-ever White House Campout on the South Lawn. This event celebrated the National Park Service centennial, and promoted getting kids and families outdoors as part of Let's Move! Outside.
HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020
The White House Office of National AIDS Policy released the HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020. This update addresses shifts in the landscape of HIV prevention seen since the Strategy’s initial release in 2010, including the emergence of treatment as a core prevention strategy, the advent of pre-exposure prophylaxis, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.