Resources by Title

Title	Publisher	Year
Assessing Bullying: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners This brief helps youth program providers of out-of-school time programs identify peer conflict and bullying and promote positive peer conflict resolution techniques. It defines traditional bullying and cyberbullying and provides...	Child Trends	2009
State Disparities in Teenage Birth Rates in the United States This report examines disparities in teenage birth rates by state and among the largest racial and ethnic population groups. Maps that indicate overall teenage pregnancy rates by state and rates for different racial and ethnic groups by...		2010
10 Fundamentals of Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems Released in March 2011, this report provides an analysis of states' progress toward building and using early care and education (ECE) data systems. The report tracked the extent to which each state has put in place the...		2011
10 Fundamentals of Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems Released in March 2011, this report provides an analysis of states' progress toward building and using early care and education (ECE) data systems. The report tracked the extent to which each state has put in place the 10 Fundamentals...		2011
10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001 The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) website provides several guides on topics including, Fostering Resilience and Optimism, Tips for Parents and Caregivers, Tips for Educators, and Tips for Youth.
15+ Make Time to Listen, Take Time to Talk This campaign provides tools and guidance to parents and caregivers on how to strengthen their relationship with their children by spending at least 15 minutes of daily, undivided time with them and focusing on them. One featured...	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration	2006
2002 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation This handbook discusses quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods, with an emphasis is on quantitative techniques for conducting outcome evaluations and those designed to assess the results of NSF funded innovations and...	National Science Foundation	2002
2006 State Juvenile Justice Legislation Review This juvenile justice legislation review examines juvenile justice legislation by state and issue and provides bill numbers, as well as descriptions and status reports on each bill. The review is current through December 31, 2006.	National Juvenile Defender Center	2007
2007 Fact Sheet on Reproductive Health: Adolescents and Young Adults This fact sheet contains data on the reproductive health trends of adolescents and young adults by age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Topics include pregnancy rates and pregnancy outcomes, births to unmarried females, sexual intercourse...	National Adolscent Health Information Center	2007
2007 Fact Sheet on Substance Use: Adolescents and Young Adults This fact sheet contains recent data on substance use, including the use of alcohol, cigarettes, and illicit drugs, among adolescents and young adults (ages 12–25). Topics include abuse of alcohol or illicit drugs, demographic data...	National Adolescent Health Information Center	2007
2008 Kids Count Data Book This 19th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book provides national and state-by-state information and statistical trends on the conditions of America’s children and families. This year, the KIDS COUNT Data Book essay, “A Road Map for Juvenile...	The Annie E. Casey Foundation
2010 Partnership Attitude Tracking Study This annual study released by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the MetLife Foundation tracks the elaborate and complex attitudes teens have towards drugs. It examines reasons why adolescents use drugs, trends in the use of...	The Partnership for a Drug-Free America	2011
2010 School Health Profiles: Characteristics of Health Programs Among Secondary Schools This report includes results from surveys conducted in 49 states, 19 large urban school districts, 5 territories, and 2 tribal governments that obtained weighted data. The surveys were conducted by...	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	2011
22 Juvenile Probation Departments Volunteer to Begin Screening Program Using MAYSI-2 This January 2007 newsletter of the Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges Commission features an article on the use of the Massachusetts Adolescent and Youth Screening Inventory (MAYSI-2). This tool is used by probation departments to...	Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges Commission	2007
2SMART4U This website offers tools to encourage youth to practice safe, smart habits when posting information about themselves on social networking Web sites and blogs.	United States Postal Inspection Service	2009
4-1-1 on Bullying This publication provides an overview of the problem of bullying, as well as current research updates and many resources for parents, teachers, and students.	George Washington University	2004
A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System This research briefly discusses the Blueprint for Change model, which offers a framework for juvenile justice and mental health systems to use when developing strategies and policies aimed at improving mental health services for system-...	National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice	2006
A Call for Integrating a Mental Health Perspective into Systems of Care for Abused and Neglected Infants and Young Children This article provides evidence for the importance of taking a comprehensive approach to meet the needs of infant and young children's mental health. While ecological and transactional models currently inform systems of care for this age...	American Psychological Association	2011
A CDC Review of School Laws and Policies Concerning Child and Adolescent Health This review describes the breadth of health-related laws and policies under which schools operate. It is intended for education and public health officials to inform them about laws and policies that can improve the health, safety, and...	American School Health Association	2008
A Collective Responsibility, A Collective Work: Supporting the Path to Positive Life Outcomes for Youth in Economically Distressed Communities This report highlights the systemic risks that youth in distressed communities face, linking high child poverty rates and low high school graduation rates to high rates of violent crime, teen pregnancy, teen unemployment, and sub-par...	Center for Law and Social Policy	2008
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Hollow Water’s Community Holistic Circle Healing Process One of the best-known circles models is the Hollow Water First Nations Community Holistic Healing Circle. This study examines the communities’ use of circles to devise a healing system for sexual abuse.
A Day in the Life of American Adolescents This report highlights the substance abuse behavior and addiction treatment activities that occur among adolescents on an average day. Facts about substance use and treatment are drawn from data from national surveys conducted and...	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration	2007
A Framework for Evaluating Systems Initiatives This paper offers a framework to clarify ideas and approaches for evaluating systems initiatives. It draws on theory of change literature and guides the process of designing an evaluation of a system initiative.	Build Initiative	2007
A Gap in their Hearts: The Experience of Separated Somali Children This is a report on the problems that Somali unaccompanied children suffer. It looks at the personal experiences and vulnerabilities of children who, at huge cost, have been smuggled into European and North American countries without...	UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs	2003
A Guide to Planning and Implementing Cultural Competence Organizational Self-Assessment This guide provides steps to engage organizations in the process of self-assessment.		2002
A Guide to Resources for Creating, Locating, and Using Child and Youth Indicator Data This guide provides brief descriptions of data and information resources available to those who work in the child and youth indicators field. Items covered include (1) books, journals, and other publications related to the...	Child Trends and Kids Count	2008
A Mission Of The Heart: Leaders in High-Needs Districts Talk about What It Takes to Transform a School This report contains observations and insights into effective leadership of high-needs schools. The report is based on in-depth focus groups with principals and sixteen one-on-one interviews with superintendents and other high-ranking...	The Wallace Foundation	2008
A Practical Guide for Crisis Response in Our Schools: Fifth Edition This guide provides information to administrators, school personnel and faculty, concerning effective crisis and disaster response within schools.	National Center for Crisis Management
A Quick Reference Guide for Posttrauma Home and School Care Adapted from Cynthia Monahon's (1997) book, Children and Trauma: A Guide for Parents and Professionals, this guide helps parents understand symptoms trauma on children, gives guidance on when to seek help and provides strategies for...	National Association of Social Workers
A Review of School Readiness Practices in the States: Early Learning Guidelines and Assessments This brief provides an overview of state Early Learning Guidelines and statewide school readiness assessments administered in kindergarten, and outlines key considerations for thinking about readiness at the state level.	Child Trends	2010
A Tool Using Data to Inform a State Early Childhood Agenda CLASP has developed a new tool to help state policy makers better understand the context and conditions of young children, birth to age six, in their state. It includes a series of questions on how young children are faring on key...		2011
AAG Robinson and OJJDP Acting Administer Slowikowski Discourage the Use of Scared Straight Programs This article features Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Laurie Robinson and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Acting Administer Jeff Slowikowski as they discuss the ineffectiveness...	Baltimore Sun	2011
Abc's of Bullying: Addressing, Blocking, and Curbing School Aggression (Online Course) This online course examines the causes and effects of bullying, prevention techniques and programs, screening, treatment options, and legal/ethical issues surrounding bullying. It is designed for professionals in education, health and...	Center for Substance Abuse Prevention	2004
About Bullying The 15+ Campaign has provided tools and guidance to parents and caregivers since 2000 on how to strengthen their relationship with their children by spending at least 15 minutes of daily, undivided time with them and focusing on them....	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs This report, produced by the Government Accountability Office, describes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS') efforts to assess the scientific accuracy of materials used in abstinence-until-marriage education...	United States Government Accountability Office	2006
Accessing Medicaid's Child Mental Health Services: The Experience of Parents in Two States This article describes four experiences that were common to a focus group of parents with children with emotional disturbances and also were receiving Medicaid: crisis-oriented systems in which identification and treatment of disorders...	Psychiatric Services	2003
Achievement Gaps: An Examination of Differences in Student Achievement and Growth This study examines the achievement gap using a large sample of students from a wide variety of school districts across the United States. The report reviews data, but does not discuss solutions to this problem.	Northwest Evaluation Association	2006
AchievemenTrap: How America is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students from Lower-Income Families This report compares academic achievement patterns of high-achieving students from lower-income families and higher-income families. It examines various aspects of achievement, including differences in persistence and gaps in college...	Jack Kent Cooke Foundation	2007
Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America This report finds that mental health care in United States is often inadequate and needs fundamental transformation, and the lag between discovering effective forms of treatment and incorporating them into routine care is unnecessarily...	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	2003
Across Ages Across Ages is a mentoring program that pairs adult mentors over age 50 with youth ages 9 to 13. The goal of the program is to enhance the resiliency of children in order to promote positive development and prevent involvement in high-...