Community Development

This game helps students celebrate Black (African American) History Month by testing their knowledge on facts and figures about the Black population in the United States. See the accompanying fun facts handout for answers to the questions. Learn more.  

This brief (PDF, 16 pages) describes practices from across the human services field that can inspire novel approaches to engaging families during program improvement, especially in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child support programs. This brief highlights the following:  Key findings from a scan of academic and non-academic literature ...

This guide (PDF, 636 pages) assists Tribal governments with creating, re-evaluating, and strengthening their juvenile codes. This resource was written and updated with the belief that Tribal governments are increasingly reassuming responsibility for their youth and are determined to ensure Native youth benefit from responsible guidance. It was developed to ...

This strategic plan is a multi-year, interagency blueprint for a future where no one experiences homelessness, and all youth and adults have a safe, stable, accessible, and affordable home. It is a roadmap for federal action to provide state and local communities with sufficient resources and guidance to build the ...

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 ...

The latest round of findings from the School Pulse Panel (SPP) has been released. These SPP data examine community partnerships, technology/digital literacy, staffing, and hiring processes, as reported by school leaders in U.S. public schools. Learn more. 

This episode is part of the education-focused “In Session” podcast series that discusses changemakers’ efforts toward building safe supportive learning environments within their communities. This episode focuses on The Collaborative Internship for All Program - an initiative to help expand the pipeline of high-quality, trained providers to address the shortage ...

This episode is the third in the Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers podcast series. The episode focuses on the unique successes experienced within the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, located inside Washington State. Their success (a nearly 70-percent reduction in the number of children in foster care) is built upon strong, ...