Tools & Guides

This handbook provides the opportunity to better understand the concept and value of social capital, explore a constellation of guiding principles that underlie social-capital-related work, and implement specific practices to help program participants build and use social capital to improve their future through potential reductions in poverty, increases in employment, ...

This tool can help students and caregivers understand financial aid offers, plan to cover the remaining costs, estimate how much is owed and if that debt is affordable, compare offers from different schools, and decide what to do next.

This resource guide (PDF, 128 pages) was compiled to address the need for comprehensive, evidence-based information to help states implement new early intervention programs or expand and improve existing ones. The document provides a set of principles of effective early intervention services; in-depth case studies of five different innovative state ...

This guide contains practical information for direct service organizations to support their client base.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just released the guide "Helping Consumers Claim the Economic Impact Payment: A guide for intermediary organizations."

This guide addresses reasons for differences in mental health etiology and outcomes among youth.

The Department of Education has created a webpage to house COVID-19 ("Coronavirus") information and resources for schools and school personnel.

https://www.samhsa.gov/coronavirusSAMHSA is providing guidance and resources to assist individuals, providers, communities, and states across the country with the challenges posed by the current COVID-19 situation.

The National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy seeks to engage organizations, professionals, policymakers, communities, individuals, and families in a linked, multi-sector effort to improve health literacy.

This tip sheet provides information about social distancing, quarantine, and isolation.