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Resource: National Dialogue with Youth People with Disabilities
This resource (PDF, 36 pages) provides a summary of the recent online event “YouthACT Transition Truths,” which provided an opportunity for youth with disabilities, as well as allies of the disability community, to virtually share ideas about the strategies and supports that can help young people with disabilities successfully transition to adulthood.
Resource: Special Feature on School Safety
This special feature describes the impact of school violence, proven prevention strategies, and federal efforts to improve the safety of schools. It also includes links to additional resources on related topics such as bullying and safety training.
Resource: Mental Health Needs of Youth
This webpage, developed by the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability, provides multiple resources on the mental health needs of youth, especially as they relate to employment. Youth service practitioners can use this information to better understand the needs of youth, and policymakers can utilize it in their work to address system and policy obstacles and improve service delivery systems for youth with mental health needs.
Resource: IAQ Knowledge to Action Professional Training Webinar Series Archive
This archived webinar series features four hour-long technical web-based trainings that address how to improve or sustain indoor air quality (IAQ) management programs within schools or school districts. School professionals can use this training to learn about the implementation of a successful framework for IAQ management, critical actions needed to address building-related environmental health, and the use of tools in the School IAQ Assessment Mobile App to identify and prioritize IAQ improvements.
Resource: 3Ts Toolkit for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water
This toolkit helps school officials responsible for the maintenance and/or safety of schools’ drinking water implement prevention programs for lead in drinking water. The toolkit introduces the 3Ts for an approach to reducing lead in drinking water: training, testing, and telling.
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.
Premiere of Student Submissions to White House Film Festival
The 2015 White House Film Festival received more than 1,500 submissions from K-12 students who created short films about the theme, “The Impact of Giving Back.” On March 20, 2015, the official top selections were shown at The White House, and the screening was streamed live online.
NotAlone.gov: Together Against Sexual Assault
Developed by the the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault, NotAlone.gov provides information, tools, and resources for students and schools on how to respond to and prevent sexual assault in schools and on college and university campuses. Resources for students include information on how to file a complaint, find crisis services, and learn more about their rights. Schools can access information on such topics as legal guidelines, maintaining confidentiality, and developing sexual assault policies and procedures. The website features a school-by-school enforcement map, which reflects resolved school-level enforcement activities conducted by the Departments of Education and Justice.
Progress Report On the President’s Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence
This report outlines the progress made on 21 of 23 executive actions presented in President Obama’s plan to help reduce gun violence, released in January, and the continuing efforts toward completing all 23 (PDF, 10 pages)
Vice President Joe Biden Speaks on Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act
In this video, Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the Violence Against Women Act and the Administration’s ongoing coordination to combat violence against women, as well as new steps the Administration is taking to reduce domestic violence and sexual assault.
Share With Youth: Promoting Bullying Prevention Awareness in the Sikh American Community
On June 8, 2015, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the Sikh Coalition held a Bullying Prevention Sikh Google Hangout. As part of her capstone project in the E3! Ambassadors Program, White House intern Naureen Singh organized the discussion to educate Sikh American youth, parents, and community organizers about the resources available from the federal government to combat bullying.
Survey on Bullying of AAPI Students
The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Bullying Prevention Task Force created a survey to gather information about what bullying of AAPI students looks like, who is being bullied, on what basis, and whether AAPI students are talking to adults and peers in their schools and communities about the bullying they experience. Survey responses will inform the direction of the AAPI Task Force in the coming months.
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the ADA
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Obama Administration released this fact sheet that describes a series of new actions aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities, as related to employment, education, civic and community participation, health, fair housing, transportation, and communications technology.