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This SAMHSA guide provides information on student assistance resources available for school leaders and administrators and tips on how they can use these resources in their schools.

Education | Substance Use Prevention

This SAMHSA Advisory reviews the evidence on prescription stimulant misuse among youth and young adults. It establishes prescription stimulant misuse as a public health problem, identifies associated risk and protective factors, and provides programs and action steps for stakeholders to prevent m...

Substance Use Prevention

This SAMHSA fact sheet for teens provides facts about opioids. It describes short- and long-term effects of opioid use, lists signs of opioid use, and helps to dispel common myths about opioids.

Opioid Use | Substance Use Prevention

The Nevada Department of Education, Office of Safe and Respectful Learning Environment (NDE OSRLE), established the Governor’s Social Workers in Schools Initiative with the focus of creating safe schools through prevention programming as well as a system of multi-tiered interventions for students...

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Capacity Building/Workforce Development | Connecting Schools and Communities | Disparities/Disproportionalities | Evaluation | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Policy | School Violence | Screening and Assessment | Social and Emotional Well-Being | Substance Use Prevention | Suicide Prevention | Sustainability | System Change | Technology | Trauma Informed/Response | Vulnerable Populations

Each of Wisconsin’s LEAs: Racine, Menominee and Beloit, convened a SS/HS Core Management Team (CMT) to collaboratively lead, plan, and implement local SS/HS strategies to address the needs of students, families, and community.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Developmentally Appropriate | Evidence Based/Informed | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Parent Skills Training | Policy | Screening and Assessment | Social and Emotional Well-Being | Substance Use Prevention | Suicide Prevention | Sustainability | System Change | Trauma Informed/Response | Youth Guided

The State and community leaders partnered to develop the Healthy Schools and Communities Resource Team.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Connecting Schools and Communities | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care | Substance Use Prevention | System Change | Youth Violence Prevention

Pennsylvania has administered a statewide Student Assistance Program (SAP) across all the Commonwealth’s 500 school districts since 1985. SAP aims to develop and maintain mental health wellness and a safe and drug-free environment in schools and communities.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Connecting Schools and Communities | Evidence Based/Informed | Parent Skills Training | Substance Use Prevention

A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General raises public health concerns about e-cigarette use among U.S. youth and young adults.

Education | Partnership | Policy | Substance Use Prevention

Describes innovative strategies that the six Project LAUNCH grantees funded from 2010-2015 used to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Capacity Building/Workforce Development | Developmentally Appropriate | Disparities/Disproportionalities | Early Care and Education | Early Childhood | Evaluation | Evidence Based/Informed | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Home Visiting | Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care | Parent Skills Training | Partnership | Policy | Resource Leveraging | Screening and Assessment | Social and Emotional Well-Being | Substance Use Prevention | Sustainability | System Change

Explores interventions in early childhood that can help prevent drug use and other unhealthy behaviors.

Early Childhood | Substance Use Prevention | Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Social and Emotional Well-Being

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