Publications

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) 2021 dataset provides the most recent data on ongoing and emerging health behaviors and experiences among high school students enrolled in public and private schools across the United States. These data are the first YRBS data collected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

This guide (PDF, 85 pages) highlights the innovative ways that communities around the country are doing purposeful prevention work to help children and families thrive. This guide highlights the theme, "Doing Things Differently: Moving from the Challenge to the Change.” The guide also contains Protective Factors Conversation Guides to help ...

This report (PDF, 8 pages) provides campus health and counseling professionals with tools to effectively serve as a bridge between center-specific and campus-wide drug prevention efforts. Learn more (PDF, 8 pages).

This report (PDF, 111 pages) provides behavioral health professionals, researchers, and policymakers with a research overview about effective and ineffective therapeutic practices related to youth of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Learn more.  

This webpage provides free access to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) publications on youth financial education. Publications include reports, research articles, infographics, posters, teaching guidance, short storybooks, and chapter books. Learn more.  

This brief (PDF, 16 pages) highlights information from the longitudinal National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, Second Cohort (NSCAW II) on service needs and receipt for children in kinship care and non-relative foster care in 2008 and 2009. This brief describes how service needs and receipt may vary for ...

This report (PDF, 28 pages) provides the first comprehensive review of the activities 2017 Teacher and School Leader (TSL) grantee districts prioritized with their TSL funds and how well these activities aligned with the key aspects of the program. The report is based on interviews conducted near the end of ...

This report (PDF, 8 pages) provides college and university faculty members with tips on what they can do to contribute to effective drug misuse prevention efforts and promote the health and safety of the campus community. Learn more (PDF, 8 pages). 

This infographic (PDF, 3 pages) provides data related to disparities among youth experiencing homelessness and those contemplating running away. The data are framed by the RHY Program’s four core outcome areas: safe and stable housing, education and employment, social and emotional well-being, and permanent connections. The infographic can be used ...

The OCR released three new resources to help students, parents, coaches, athletic directors, and school officials evaluate whether a school is meeting its legal duty to provide equal athletic opportunity regardless of sex. The overview resource provides examples of the kinds of situations that could, depending upon facts and circumstances, ...