Angel Jimenez shares his personal experience with Gateway to Success, a Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) program dedicated to prevention and mental health intervention services for students. Angel was able to get back on track after a sudden school expulsion with the help and support of the Gateway to Success program, the Alhambra Unified School District and the Alhambra Police Department.
Shares information about SAMHSA's "KnowBullying" free app that can help parents talk their children about bullying. This app features strategies to prevent bullying for ages 3-6, 7-13, and teens; lists of warning signs to recognize if children are engaged in bullying, being bullied, or witnessing bullying; reminders to talk; and strategies for using social media to share success stories and offer advice.
Discusses the importance of positive youth development, community building, and youth involvement. Provides information about how you can put positive youth development principles into practice.
Summarizes a survey of American middle and high school students who were missing school and asked them why they skip and what they perceive the consequences to be.
Provides a range of information on mental health including a section focused on positive mental health and how to promote resiliencefor adolescents.
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.
Promotes better policy and practice around school attendance, including tracking chronic absence data for each student beginning in kindergarten, or ideally earlier, and partnering with families and community agencies to intervene when poor attendance is a problem for students or schools.
Provides highlights from the Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders, Second Edition booklet. It presents the updated prevention principles, an overview of program planning, and critical first steps for those learning about prevention.
Compiles and summarizes the research regarding the impact of parent engagement on student academic achievement and provides parents with a practical tool that informs them about the school system, and includes strategies and resources necessary for children’s cognitive, academic, social and emotional growth.
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).
