Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Though a common target for health-improving efforts, young people are not often regarded as agents of change for healthier communities. However, a growing number of successful health-supportive policy, environment, and...
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Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying: Workshop Summary
Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, 2014 Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying is the summary of a workshop convened by the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in April 2014 to identify the...
Talk. They Hear You.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014 SAMHSA's underage drinking prevention campaign helps parents and caregivers start talking to their children early—as early as 9 years old—about the dangers of alcohol.
Prevention Programs that Address Youth Marijuana Use
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, 2014 Drawing from national databases and registries of effective programs and practices, this tool provides summaries of interventions that have been...
Strategies and Interventions to Prevent Youth Marijuana Use: An At-a-Glance Resource Tool
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, 2014 This tool provides brief summaries of substance abuse prevention strategies and associated interventions that have been evaluated to determine their...
Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Youth Marijuana Use
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014 This tool provides a summary of research findings on factors associated with marijuana use among youth. These factors have been organized according to the socio-ecological model, a multi-level framework...
Safe and Supportive Schools
American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) Safe and Supportive Schools Project promotes the establishment of safe and supportive environments for middle and high school students as an approach for preventing HIV and other sexually...
Changing for Life: Using the Stages of Change to Support the Recovery Process
Supporting Recovery in Behavioral Health Dr. James Prochaska discusses the Stages of Change model and its use in recovery and the broader behavioral health field.
Database of On-site and Distance Learning Opportunities: Training Finder Real-time Affiliate Network (TRAIN)
Public Health Foundation Training Finder Real-time Affiliate Network (TRAIN) is the nation’s premier learning resource for professionals who protect the public’s health. TRAIN is comprised of the national www.train.org site and participating TRAIN affiliate sites....
A New Way to Talk about the Social Determinants of Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation This webinar shares a way to create more compelling, effective, and persuasive messages that resonate across the political spectrum.