Positive Youth Development
This guide includes examples of leadership in action and leadership models, and it underscores the importance of leading by example. Agency leaders and program managers can use this publication as part of initiatives to strengthen family engagement or to make other needed culture shifts.Learn more.
The Kumaliza Project will collaborate with service providers across sectors such as health, education, community development, and the private sector to map available services in each community and address any identified gaps. The project will integrate with cross-sectoral programming, gender and climate resilience efforts, and incorporate Positive Youth Development principles. ...
This free, online course is available to educators, school personnel, youth mentors, and others dedicated to improving teen health. Participants will follow a school administrator throughout his day as he highlights what teen dating violence is and how to prevent it through graphic novel scenarios, interactive exercises, and information gathered ...
This free, online course is available to educators, school personnel, youth mentors, and others dedicated to improving teen health. Participants will follow a school administrator throughout his day as he highlights what teen dating violence is and how to prevent it through graphic novel scenarios, interactive exercises, and information gathered ...
This action guide describes six in-school strategies that are proven to promote and support mental health and well-being. For each strategy, the guide also describes approaches, or specific ways to put the strategy into action, and examples of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices. Learn more. ...
The Unaccompanied Children Lived Experience and Youth Engagement Program (LEYEP) is forecasted to provide funding to establish, manage, and evaluate a Lived Experience Council and Youth Leadership Academy (as a subgroup of the Council) comprised of former unaccompanied children and individuals who sponsored children from ORR care. The recipient shall ...
Research and data on youth and delinquency is critical for identifying opportunities and developing strategies to support positive development through prevention and intervention. Responses to youth misbehavior by youth-serving systems—including education, child welfare, behavioral health, and justice systems—can play an important role in promoting or disrupting youths’ healthy social and ...
The four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series was designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. This introduction provides an overview of the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) program and REL Appalachia team, the Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms training series, and the local and state context ...
This view from the field discusses how faculty members are critical partners in creating an environment that supports student well-being and shares the importance of making the case clear on the relationship between students’ well-being, particularly mental health and substance use, and their academic engagement. Learn more. ...
These conversation guides are designed to help service providers engage caregivers in personalized conversations about protective factors. Guides for each of the following protective factors are provided:Nurturing and AttachmentKnowledge of ParentingParental ResilienceSocial ConnectionsConcrete SupportSocial/Emotional CompetenceEach set includes a guide for service providers and a worksheet for caregivers that can be ...
