Tools & Guides

This toolkit raises awareness of the dangers associated with not wearing a seat belt every trip, every time. The toolkit is particularly tailored to protect African American populations, as 56% of African Americans killed in motor vehicle crashes are unbuckled. The toolkit contains a social media playbook, graphics, guides, and ...

These toolkits provide non-governmental organizations (NGOs), school partners, and parents with resources on a variety of topics including physical education and physical activity, school nutrition services, out-of-school time and healthy eating and physical activity, getting the most from school meals, and school health services. View the toolkits below.  This Healthy Schools ...

This free tool helps families and caregivers quickly find addiction treatment services and support for their loved ones. The tool allows individuals to search a nation-wide database of traditional treatment centers as well as support services for the family or friends of those struggling with addiction. Available in English and ...

This free, downloadable digital health literacy curriculum includes a slide deck, accompanying script, and handouts that can be used to help people gain the skills needed to access and evaluate online health information. Other digital health literacy resources are also available. Learn more.   ...

This resource contains an overview of Black History Month’s origins in addition to two valuable handouts for educators. The Fun Facts fact sheet (PDF, 1 page) offers a compilation of statistics on Black/African American populations, occupations, and educational attainment. The Teaching Guide (PDF, 2 pages) provides a list of ideas ...

These three free mental health literacy courses provide a foundation of mental health literacy, including effective strategies to help you recognize opportunities to be more thoughtful in the use of language in your everyday life and when treating patients with mental illnesses. The three courses are entitled Mental Health, Stigma, ...

The Family Planning Clinic Locator tool has information on public and private nonprofit health and community-based clinics that provide a broad range of family planning and preventive health services to women, men, and adolescents, regardless of ability to pay. Learn more. 

This webpage provides a set of four basic, complementary behavior management strategies for classes, with examples of application in both in-person and virtual (distance learning) situations. The site includes a collection of tools and templates. Learn more (PDF, 4 pages).

This practice guide summarizes evidence-based, positive, and proactive practices that support and respond to students’ social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs in classrooms and similar teaching and learning environments (e.g., small-group activity). Included are a self-assessment, examples of critical practices in elementary and secondary settings, scenarios that illustrate implementation, and ...

This new tip sheet for parents and families and the corresponding new toolkit for schools aim to heighten awareness of and improve communication about social and emotional climate and learning.