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Resource: Good Behavior Game

This report (PDF, 21 pages) summarizes the available evidence on the effects of Good Behavior Game on student and teacher outcomes. The Good Behavior Game is a classroom management strategy that aims to improve social skills, minimize disruptive behaviors, and create a positive learning environment. Learn more.  ...

Webinar Recording: Education, Special Education, and Accommodations for Students with Psychosis: Working with Youth, Families, Teachers, and Schools

This webinar provided information and tangible suggestions on how to effectively work with schools, families, and students on behalf of high school students with psychosis. The webinar discussed federally mandated educational programs and regulations (e.g., Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA], Individualized Education Programs [IEPs], 504s) and relevant accommodations for ...

Resource: The Trauma-Informed Teacher Tip Guide

This resource helps educators more effectively and empathetically respond to students experiencing ongoing stress and trauma. This guide provides methods teachers can use to understand signs of dysregulation, decode student behaviors related to trauma, and apply evidence-based tools that help students move to a place of emotional regulation. Learn more.   ...

Residential (Therapeutic Group Home) Services for Unaccompanied Children

The Office of Refugee Resettlement/Division of Unaccompanied Children’s Operations (ORR/DUCO), within the Administration for Children and Families, provides temporary shelter care and other child welfare-related services to Unaccompanied Children (UC) in ORR custody. Residential care services begin once ORR accepts a UC for placement and end when the minor is ...

Resource: U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health

This Advisory describes current evidence on the impacts of social media on the mental health of young people. The advisory outlines immediate steps that parents, youth, researchers, policymakers, and tech companies can take to mitigate the risk of harm to young people. Learn more. 

Family Counseling and Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex+ Youth and their Families

The purpose of this program is to prevent health and behavioral health risks (e.g., suicide, depression, homelessness, drug use, HIV) and to promote well-being for LGBTQI+ youth in the context of their families/caregivers, cultures, and communities by establishing LGBTQI+ family counseling and support programs and training providers on family counseling ...

Resource: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 2021 Data

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) 2021 dataset provides the most recent data on ongoing and emerging health behaviors and experiences among high school students enrolled in public and private schools across the United States. These data are the first YRBS data collected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Prevention Services Evaluation Partnerships: Building Evidence for Mental Health, Substance Use, In-home Parent Skill-based, and Kinship Navigator Programs and Services

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) plans to solicit applications for Prevention Services Evaluation Partnerships. These 3-year grants aim to support summative (i.e., impact) randomized control trial or quasi-experimental evaluations of a mental health, substance abuse prevention and/or treatment, in-home parent skill-based, ...

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Community Living and Participation Among Transition Age Youth with Serious Mental Health Conditions From Disadvantaged, Vulnerable, or Marginalized Backgrounds

The purpose of the RRTCs is to achieve the goals of, and improve the effectiveness of, services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act through well-designed research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in important topical areas as specified by NIDILRR. These activities are designed to benefit people with disabilities, family members ...

National Prevention Week

National Prevention Week is May 7–13, 2023. National Prevention Week showcases the work of communities and organizations dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of substance misuse prevention and positive mental health. Learn more. 
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