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Provides a range of information on mental health including a section focused on positive mental health and how to promote resiliencefor adolescents.

Connecting Schools and Communities | Behavioral Health/Mental Health

Provides links to multiple hotlines, websites, and other resources for youth who are struggling with mental health issues and substance abuse.

Substance Use Prevention

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.

Connecting Schools and Communities | Vulnerable Populations

Lists and describes resources that address youth engagement in community change, education reform, and advocacy.  

Youth Guided

Provides information from national leadership group of teens and young adults advocating for change in the mental health system and other youth-serving systems across the country.

Youth Guided

Features an extensive series of briefs pertaining to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, including best practices in homeless education, best practices in interagency collaboration, and three briefs focusing on children and families displaced by disaster.

Vulnerable Populations

Includes comprehensive, intensive, community-based programs to promote building resiliency and protective factors in youth, families, and communities.

Vulnerable Populations

Provides organizations, agencies, groups, and individuals a space to work together to communicate what is important to them, to learn together, to do work together, and to collaborate in addressing complex educational problems. 

Partnership

Developed through the Education and Capacity Building Program detailed on the NNIRR website, this platform serves as a  space to share immigrant/refugee experiences, understand those of others, share strategies, and develop collective visions for a better world.

Capacity Building/Workforce Development

Discusses the impact of bias-based bullying and violence in schools and helps schools to better meet the needs of sexual minority youth and children with sexual minority parents/guardians by providing resources to schools, skill-based training for educators, and more. 

Cultural Linguistic Competency

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