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Mental Health
Protecting Youth From the Harms of Vaping

Department of Health and Human Services

This webpage provides information and resources on how educators, parents and guardians, health care professionals, and communities can help youth reject or quit vaping and other tobacco products.

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Guidance
Mental Health
Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Substance Use Prevention

Department of Education, and Department of Justice, 2021

This guide offers information that can help parents raise children who understand the risks of substance use. It includes an overview of substance use among children, youth, and young adults; risk factors and protective factors; suggestions for how to talk to young people about drugs; and tips on what to do if parents suspect their child is using substances. 

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Mental Health
Talking with Your Teen About Vaping

Department of Health and Human Services, 2020

This brochure details the risks associated with vaping and the importance of having conversations with children and adolescents to help them avoid substance use.
Guidance
Mental Health
Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults

Department of Health and Human Services, 2020

This guide discusses effective programs and policies to prevent vaping among youth and young adults, challenges to reducing e-cigarette use and vaping, and program and policy implementation strategies that can be used to address these challenges.
Guidance
Mental Health
Keeping Youth Drug Free

Department of Health and Human Services, 2020

This guide offers advice for parents on how to prevent youth substance use. It includes facts about substances and tips for establishing and maintaining good communication with children and adolescents.
Guidance
Mental Health
Overdose Prevention and Response Toolkit – Spanish Version

Department of Health and Human Services, 2024

This toolkit, designed to augment overdose prevention and reversal training, provides guidance on the role of opioid overdose reversal medications, including naloxone and nalmefene, and how to respond to an overdose. It also contains appendices for specific audiences, including people who use drugs (PWUD), people who take prescription opioids, first responders, healthcare practitioners, and others. It is intended to provide guidance to a wide range of individuals on preventing and responding to an overdose and emphasizes that harm reduction and access to treatment are essential aspects of overdose prevention.
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Mental Health
Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary and Trends Report: 2011-2021 

Department of Health and Human Services, 2023

This report provides surveillance data, as well as 10-year trends, on health behaviors and experiences among high school students in the United States 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.
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