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Presents best practices among school districts for creating safe school climates.This presentation lists tools and initiatives used by schools to improve school climate, discusses challenges to implementing changes and their possible solutions, and finally, makes recommendations for getting started with program implementation.
Presents evidence and logic for school climate’s positive correlation with academic achievement. Examines evidence for and describes characteristics of the school climate variables of “Safety”, “Support, Care, and Connections”, “Challenge and Engagement”, and “Social Emotional Competency”.
Describes guides, briefs, tools, and websites that support improvements in school climate. Includes guidance for programmatic intervention, measures, school climate (engagement, environment, and safety), and special populations.
Highlights 15 federal elementary and secondary education programs where the statutory language or the regulations/guidance that accompanies a program appear to permit funds to be used to support universal prevention programs and social and emotional learning initiatives. The guide also provides examples of schools, districts, and state education agencies that have successfully supported their prevention programs with federal education dollars.
Includes teen-informed activities that can be used with youth 12-17 years old across a variety of community settings to boost confidence, and prevent risk-taking behaviors, including alcohol and drug-abuse. The toolkit enhances the existing Above the Influence program efforts and furthers its goals with new individual and group activities that can help teens make healthier decisions with the support of adults who value them.
Provides several key principles for emergency planning. One of these principles is ensuring that the needs of the whole school or higher education community are addressed, which includes those with access and functional needs.
Provides a toolkit for spreading the word about strategies for preventing alcohol misuse or abuse and encouraging communities, families, and individuals to get involved in Alcohol Awareness Month. The page provides suggestions and tips, as well as other resources.
Finds supporting evidence for the hypothesis that, in elementary age behavioral development, cognition about the acceptability of aggressive behavior is influenced by group expectations and sanctions, but not by the actual presence and extent of aggressive behavior.
Provides information to youth and family services professionals who come in direct contact with young people who may be sexually exploited or trafficked on how to assist youth victims of sex trafficking. The document includes information on who is most at risk, what to look for, what exploited and trafficked young people need, and where to get additional resources and support.
Provides a summary of the 2-day workshop titled “Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying and Its Impact on Youth Across the Lifecourse," whose purpose was to bring together representatives of key sectors involved in bullying prevention to identify the conceptual models and interventions that have proven effective in decreasing bullying, to examine models that could increase protective factors and mitigate the negative effects of bullying, and to exp