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Discusses the connections between substance abuse, violence, and emotional disorders amongst children and adolescents.

Provides project directors with information, strategies, and resources for addressing Teen Dating Violence (TDV) in schools.

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.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health

Focuses on promoting the social emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5. Funded by the Office of Head Start and Child Care Bureau it disseminates research and evidence- based practices to early childhood programs across the country.

Describes the challenges of estimating the extent to which poverty affects children’s mental, emotional, and behavioral health.

Identifies evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that are effective in reducing antisocial behavior and promote healthy youth development. Provides information on the Blueprints for Violence Prevention project and various research and dissemination initiatives.

Intended for the general public to provide a basic overview of bullying.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health

Provides an overview of social-emotional development, and also contains links to other useful resources on this topic.

Assists in deciphering where organizations intersect in areas such as target population; services budgeted for youth, and governance power.

System Change

Examines, compares and summarizes the global trends of male and female youth violence around the world by country. Discusses some of the environmental causes including societal, political, and economic.

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