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Illustrates the prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders among older adolescents and young adults. The report also describes how these challenges can affect their successful transition to adulthood in terms of residential stability, education, health insurance coverage, and involvement with the justice system.
Reports on how teens development of stress habits may be modeled after adults stress habits causing unhealthy levels of stress with poor stress management skills, especially during the school year. During the school year American teens say their stress level is higher than levels reported by adults.
Summarizes the relationship between substance use and suicide. The brief also provides state and tribal prevention professionals with information on the scope of the problem, an understanding of traditional barriers to collaboration and current programming, and ways to work together on substance misuse and suicide prevention strategies.
Summarizes data on suicidal thoughts, attempts, and deaths and also describes risk and protective factors that are common among college and university students.
Summarizes a longitudinal study that found that African American youth living in extremely impoverished neighborhoods have a nearly 36-percent risk of attempting suicide by the time they reached the age of 20.
Reports on the school experiences of LGBT youth in schools, including the in-school resources that support LGBT students’ well-being, the extent of the challenges that they face at school, and insights into many other aspects of LGBT students’ experiences.
Summarizes the ways in which schools are impacting students in critical ways far beyond academics, and how imperative it is that all of these other channels (e.g., civics, mental health, and social emotional learning) are supported and examined.
Assess the long-term influence of moderate-to-severe depressive or suicidal symptoms in adolescence on the transition to adulthood. Thirteen years of data from Waves I to IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health, N=11,186) were analyzed to assess the likelihood that study participants were positioned to make a healthy transition to adulthood by their mid/late twenties and early thirties.
Raises awareness and understanding, via a presentation of 2017 YRBSS data by sex, by race/ethnicity, and for sexual minority youth. It also shared data over the past decade and examines linear YRBS trends for each focus area.
Discusses three IES-funded projects that highlight the importance of school-based mental health services and why we need to carefully consider school-based mental health as a logical and critical part of success in school.