National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
Element 5 is a key factor in the overall success of an SS/HS Initiative. This element focuses on the social and emotional development of children under age 8, with the aim of improving school readiness and preventing issues with violence and alcohol and other drug use from ever occurring.
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
The focus of element 4 is to provide needed mental health services for students both within school and from community mental health providers. This brief for SS/HS project directors explains the importance of element 4 to the SS/HS Initiative and offers practical guidance and resources for providing mental health services in schools and the surrounding communities.
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
This guide provides SS/HS project directors (PDs) with information on developing sustainable school mental health (SMH) programs. It presents strategies to consider when working with public and private community mental health (MH) agencies to implement SMH programs, and provides step-by-step guidelines for creating long-lasting SMH programs.
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
Element 3 focuses on providing students with the behavioral, social, and emotional supports they need to succeed in school and in life. This brief reviews the importance of element 3 to SS/HS work for project directors, and provides information and resources to effectively offer these supports.
To provide and in-depth look at how strength-based programming can address challenges for Somali youth, this bulletin provides challenges and strengths shared by Somali youth with current examples
This brief reviews the existing research on the implementation and effects of zero tolerance policies in school settings and highlights rigorously-evaluated, non-punitive alternatives to zero toler
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
Element 2 focuses on ATOD prevention activities, with a specific focus on decreasing the percentage of students who use alcohol and other drugs. This brief explains the effect successfully implementing element 2 can have on schools and provides key information and resources for SS/HS project directors.
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
Element 1 of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative focuses on activities that foster a safe school environment, prevent violence, and work toward improving students’ feelings of safety while they are in school and their local neighborhoods.
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
In recent years, schools and communities have experienced a rise in aggression, delinquency, and bullying among girls and young women. According to a recent report issued in 2008 by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, “from 1991 to 2000, arrests of girls increased more (or decreased less) than arrests of boys for most types of [violent] offenses.
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) has published a new paper which discusses some of the environmental hazards that threaten young children inside and nearby home and/or early child
Feeling stressed? If you or someone you know has been affected by a disaster and needs immediate assistance, please call this toll-free number for information, support, and counseling. You will be connected to the nearest crisis center.
When children, teens, and adults are dealing with the stress from crisis situations, talking may not be enough. These resources provide ideas about what to do you can do at home to help children, family members, and yourself cope.
