Prevention Institute, 1999 The Spectrum of Prevention helps expand prevention efforts beyond education models by promoting a multi-faceted range of activities for effective prevention. It has been used nationally in prevention initiatives targeting traffic safety,...
Publications
Sexuality Education Standards Core Content and Skills K-12: A Special Publication of the Journal of School Health
Journal of School Health, 2012 This document strives to provide clear, consistent and straightforward guidance on the essential minimum core content for sexuality education that is developmentally and age-appropriate for students in grades K-12.
Sexual Risk Behaviors and Academic Achievement
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009 This publication demonstrates an association between grades and sexual risk behavior.
Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2012 This report documents the prevalence and nature of underage drinking and the national efforts and best practices to address the problem. This report also includes information about state policies, enforcement...
Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents: A Research Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders (Second Edition)
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003 This guide for parents, educators, and community leaders focuses preventing youth drug use; this edition includes updated principles, new questions and answers, new program information, and expanded references and resources....
Prescription Drug Abuse: Strategies to Stop the Epidemic 2013
Trust for America’s Health, 2013 This report reviews prescription drug abuse rates and trends, as well as examines state and national policies and recommendations to combat prescription drug misuse.
Pathways for Youth Strategic Plan
Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, 2013 This strategic plan helps encourage federal collaboration to improve health outcomes for youth, especially for those who are most vulnerable.
Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, 2013 This toolkit equips communities and local governments with material to develop policies and practices to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. This toolkit addresses issues for first responders,...
National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2012 This report and detailed tables present a first look at results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the...
National Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention
Centers for Disease Control- National Center for Injury and Violence Control, Division of Violence Prevention This document provides statistics on youth violence and suggests methods of prevention, as well as briefly explains what the Academic Centers of Excellence do...