Mitigating Social Isolation in Youth
Department of Homeland Security, 2020
This guide provides parents and educators with tips to help mitigate social isolation in youth and prevent students from radicalizing to violence.
SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, like guidance, training, and fact sheets, to help schools create and maintain a safe learning environment.
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Department of Homeland Security, 2020
This guide provides parents and educators with tips to help mitigate social isolation in youth and prevent students from radicalizing to violence.
Department of Health and Human Services, October 2020
This self-assessment tool was created to assist school and district staff in addressing the health and academic needs of LGBTQ students, and to understand current policies, programs, and practices that may contribute to safe, inclusive environments where all youth can be successful.
Department of Health and Human Services, December 2021
The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory offers recommendations for supporting the mental health of children, adolescents, and young adults. The Advisory includes essential recommendations for the institutions that surround young people and shape their day-to-day lives—schools, community organizations, health care systems, technology companies, media, funders and foundations, employers, and government.
Department of Health and Human Services, 2019
This guidance is designed to help schools through the process of developing comprehensive screening procedures, as well as provide readily available resources to facilitate the implementation of effective behavioral health screening in schools.
Department of Health and Human Services
This webpage provides parents with information on how children respond to traumatic events and corresponding resources to help.
Department of Justice
This guidance provides training for victim service providers, mental health professionals, and law enforcement officers on best practices for supporting youth who have experienced events that lead to trauma or grief.
Department of Health and Human Services
This report provides an overview to parents, teachers, and health practitioners on the role of adverse childhood responses in substance use and related behavioral health problems.
Department of Health and Human Services, April 2019
This webpage helps communities by increasing access to evidence-based Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultations—an approach that pairs mental health professionals with people who work with young children and their families.
Department of Health and Human Services, February 2018
This video focuses on how parents and caregivers can actively engage in their child’s behavioral health care, as well as identify available resources that can help the entire family.
Department of Justice
This training session educates mental health professionals on increasing effectiveness of providers for child victims of violence.