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Positive Youth Development

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. ...
This guide (PDF, 85 pages) highlights the innovative ways that communities around the country are doing purposeful prevention work to help children and families thrive. This guide highlights the theme, "Doing Things Differently: Moving from the Challenge to the Change.” The guide also contains Protective Factors Conversation Guides to help ...
This fact sheet (PDF, 1 page) summarizes the grant programs available from the OJJDP under the federal Second Chance Act. These programs fund comprehensive reentry planning, direct pre- and post-release services, and sustainable justice system improvements that promote positive youth and family outcomes, reduce recidivism, and increase public safety. Learn ...
This video features voices of young people who are participating in workforce programs to help them achieve their dreams. Learn more.  
This webpage contains classroom activities designed to help teach and nurture the building blocks of financial capability. Each activity comes with a teacher guide and supporting student material. Learn more.
April is Second Chance Month. Second Chance Month seeks to help individuals, communities, and agencies recognize the importance of reentry programs and their role in building second chances. Second Chance Month will feature live learning events, videos, and publications to support the justice field and Second Chance Act grantees with ...
This resource (PDF, 27 pages) suggests evidence-based policies, practices, and programs that schools can implement to maintain a safe, inclusive, supportive, and fair learning environment where all students can learn, grow, and become successful. The guide identifies these five guiding principles:  Foster a sense of belonging through a positive, safe, welcoming, ...
ED released a letter to governors, chief state school officers, and school district and school leaders, urging them to end corporal punishment in schools—the practice of paddling, spanking, or otherwise imposing physical punishment on students. This letter reinforces ED's position that corporal punishment in schools should be replaced with evidence-based ...
This brief (PDF, 16 pages) highlights information from the longitudinal National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, Second Cohort (NSCAW II) on service needs and receipt for children in kinship care and non-relative foster care in 2008 and 2009. This brief describes how service needs and receipt may vary for ...
The ACF is soliciting feedback from parents, caregivers, and young people to inform the development of behavioral health-related activities and resources for young adults and families. The survey is available in both English and Spanish. Learn more. 
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