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This tool is designed to help districts and schools implement wellness policies that meet USDA’s triennial assessment requirements. The Wellness Policy in Action Tool (WPAT) is an online platform that addresses 31 key topics related to school nutrition and physical activity practices. Learn more.  ...
This toolkit (PDF, 26 pages) aims to help State Advisory Groups (SAGs) better understand the benefits of diversion programs as alternatives to probation for system-involved youth. It includes recommendations for implementing probation reform and offers examples of SAGs engaging in diversion strategies. Learn more.  ...
This toolkit aims to help professionals working with runaway and homeless youth and domestic and sexual assault victims. The toolkit includes information and resources on the following:  Key terms and definitions  Finding common ground between services for runaway and homeless youth and victims of intimate partner violence  Sex trafficking of minors  The runaway and ...
This webpage offers strategies, tools, and templates that school staff can use to apply classroom management approaches to improve school connectedness in their face-to-face, virtual, or blended learning modes. Promising practices and specific classroom management approaches and skills to increase connectedness are provided. These approaches and skills include:   Teacher caring and ...
This toolkit provides tools and resources for developing a comprehensive victim assistance plan to help communities prepare for and respond to the needs of victims of mass violence and terrorism in the most timely, effective, and compassionate manner possible.   The toolkit’s Partnerships & Planning section reviews how to create and maintain ...
This site offers maps and charts to track Monkeypox cases at the state and national level. Total confirmed cases in the U.S. and in each state are shared. Learn more.  
This new webpage contains a variety of documents and materials to help support schools’ and districts’ safety efforts. It includes a comprehensive collection of one-pagers, presentations, and newsletter bulletins. Learn more. 
This webpage contains a series of webinar recordings discussing CDC’s Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) and its many uses for schools. Learn more. 
This tool is available for schools to estimate how they can reduce virus particles, including COVID-19 particles, in classrooms year-round. The tool shows how simple methods, including running HEPA air purifiers, increasing the use of outdoor air in HVAC systems when possible, and running exhaust fans, can reduce virus particles. ...
This guide (PDF, 38 pages) identifies a broad variety of federal funding streams that providers, districts, summer and afterschool intermediaries, municipal government leaders, and state government leaders can tap to support equitable access to high-quality programs. Learn more. 
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