Tools & Guides

This guide (PDF, 95 pages) is designed to help families take necessary steps, contact the right people, and know how to move forward when their child is missing. This fifth edition contains checklists with critical information to help parents and caretakers work with law enforcement, the media, search and rescue ...

This set of toolkits helps parents, educators, and administrators support students who are English Language Learners. Learn more. 

This guide calls on youth to engage with their local decision-makers to advocate for a more safe and sustainable transportation system for all road users during Global Youth Traffic Safety Month (GYTSM). This guide includes a list of activities with associated points for participating youth. By the end of May, ...

This guide (PDF, 12 pages) provides caregivers and adults working with young people with a detailed overview of human trafficking. This guide includes information about:  What human trafficking is   How to recognize human trafficking among young people  Tips for talking to young people about general exploitation   Information about building life skills that may help ...

This module provides participants with resources to increase their awareness of the ethnic and cultural diversity within the deaf community. This module examines identity and intersectionality among deaf people from lived experiences of deaf people. This module provides tools for students, instructors of deaf students, professionals with deaf coworkers, managers ...

This toolkit (PDF, 14 pages) provides resources and tools to support promotional, outreach, and social media activities for 2023 National Foster Care Month activities. The page includes graphics, social media posts, email signatures and sample messaging, sample proclamations, and key facts. Learn more.  ...

This web page provides access to over 120 screening and assessment tools relevant to serving youth and young adults. These tools have been compiled to assist youth-serving programs in reviewing and assessing the needs of youth, young adults, and children. Learn more. 

This guide describes key issues that education researchers should consider when deciding which study data to share, how to organize the data, what documentation to include, and where to share their final dataset. The guide also provides strategies for addressing those challenges and includes links to other resources, a checklist ...

This tool aims to combat child sexual exploitation and help young people remove sexually explicit photos and videos taken of them while under 18 years old from the internet. The initiative includes a public service announcement, produced by NCMEC, that will appear on television and online platforms that youth frequently ...

This toolkit (PDF, 15 pages) contains free resources that will help amplify this year's National Child Abuse Prevention Month (NCAPM) theme, "Doing Things Differently: Moving from the Challenge to the Change.” The toolkit contains sample social media posts, graphics, gifs, and a press release to raise awareness about child abuse ...