Updates the 1994 book Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders and contains information on the status of research on programs in mental health and substance abuse prevention for children, youth, and young adults as well as suggestions for improving these programs (This content is used with permission from EDC, Inc. All rights reserved).
Provides strategies for early childhood programs to integrate cultural and linguistic competence into their services through policy, team building, and program development.
Provides educators with an overview of social and emotional learning (SEL) and school-family partnerships (SFPs), a discussion of the important relationship of SFPs and SEL, and strategies to promote children's social, emotional, and academic development using school-family partnerships. (This content is used with permission from EDC, Inc. All rights reserved).
Provides a comprehensive, integrated, public health approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment services for individuals with substance use concerns, as well as those who are at risk of developing substance use disorders.
Includes a variety of resources and tools that school staff can use to educate students, staff, and parents about bullying, specifically, and school violence, generally. Resources Include handouts, videos, testimonials from students, suggestions for class activities, and more.
Provides a multitude of resources and takes a public health approach to preventing youth violence before it starts.
Provides a systematic framework for evaluating the quality of classroom-based social and emotional learning programs and applies this framework to rate and identify well-designed, evidence-based SEL programs with potential for broad dissemination to schools across the United States. Also shares best-practice guidelines for district and school teams on how to select and implement SEL programs and offers recommendations for future priorities to advance SEL research, practice and policy.
Intended for the general public to provide a basic overview of bullying.
Assists in deciphering where organizations intersect in areas such as target population; services budgeted for youth, and governance power. The tool includes steps for completing the tool before the partnerships are formed and also suggestions for how to use this tool with existing partnerships (This content is used with permission from EDC, Inc. All rights reserved).
Outlines the risks faced by young children with social, emotional, and behavioral problems, as well as barriers to eligibility, access to services, and service utilization. The authors conclude by recommending policy improvements needed by young children and their families.
