The Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report: 2013–2023 provides the most recent surveillance data, as well as 10-year trends, on health behaviors and experiences among high school students in the United States (U.S.) related to adolescent health and well-being. These include sexual behaviors, substance use, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, experiences such as violence and poor mental health, social determinants of health such as unstable housing, and protective factors such as school connectedness and parental monitoring. We also highlight disparities in these important outcomes by sex, race and ethnicity, sexual identity, and sex of sexual contacts.

Author: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Publisher: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

THRIVE enables communities to determine how to improve health and safety, and promote health equity. It is a framework for understanding how structural drivers, such as racism, play out at the community level in terms of the social-cultural, physical/built, and economic/ educational environments. We call these community-level indicators the community determinants of health. In addition to being a framework, THRIVE is also a tool for engaging community members and practitioners in assessing the status of community determinants, prioritizing them, and taking action to change them in order to improve health, safety, and health equity. As a framework, THRIVE is widely applicable to local, state, and national initiatives to inform policy and program direction. As a tool, THRIVE can be used in a variety of planning and implementation processes, from neighborhood-level planning to community health needs assessments (CHNA) and community health improvement planning (CHIP) processes.

Author:

Publisher: Prevention Institute

This new conceptualization of youth success draws from more than 180 sources and makes an argument for new definitions to propel practice and policy that addresses educational and racial equity.

Author: David Osher, Karen Pittman, Jill Young, Hal Smith, Deborah Moroney, Merita Irby

Publisher: The Forum for Youth Investment

Time management can improve your stress management skills overall. Learn how to organize your time, and you'll get more out of sobriety.

This Program on Survey Research Tip Sheet provides some basic tips about how to write good survey questions and design a good survey questionnaire.

Author:

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Extension

This guide provides tips and guidance for conducting interviews with key partners to gather needs assessment data from planning and preparation, conducting the interview, and provides sample questions to ask by various audiences.

Author: Center for Strategic Prevention Support Publisher: Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Bureau of Substance Addiction Services

This tool – developed and piloted by the Eliminating Disparities collaborative – helps leaders gain an evidence-based snapshot of practices and policies related to racial equity in their organizations.  This open source tool is designed for organizations both large and small, including school districts, nonprofits, corporations, foundations and others.

Author: Eliminating Disparities in Child & Youth Success Collaborative

Publisher: Coalition of Communities of Color

This tool provides a list of tools that practitioners working to prevent substance misuse can use to assess their community’s readiness to address identified needs, and to prioritize these needs accordingly. Please note that the examples presented here are not representative of all assessment tools available to the field and do not imply endorsement by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.

Author: Publisher: Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC)

Train Massachusetts (TRAIN MA), an affiliate of the TRAIN Learning Network, is a national free online learning platform that provides self-paced training on various public health topics. It is available to all public health professionals in Massachusetts, including those just starting their careers. The Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS) at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health offers many courses for people who work in careers addressing substance use prevention, intervention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery. These self-paced trainings include BSAS 101, a brief training on the BSAS system of care, Introduction to the Substance Use Helpline, Substance Use Disorders 101, Opioid Overdose Prevention, and more.  New trainings are being added regularly. 

Register to create your free account:

• Go to TRAIN to set up an account.
• You will receive an email confirming your enrollment.
• Once you're enrolled, create your profile and start learning!

Funded by The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Tribal Youth Resource Center supports tribal efforts to improve juvenile justice systems for American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) youth. The website features a resource library, upcoming events, funding opportunities, podcasts, and blogs on topics relevant to supporting Tribal youth.



 

Author:

Publisher: Tribal Youth Resource Center