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- Health Care Resources for Youth (34)
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- Obesity Prevention (35)
- Resiliency (14)
- Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) (76)
- Trauma-Informed Care (47)
In response to questions and concerns surrounding California youth activity and play, LA84 commissioned research to address these conversations. One of its kind, the 2024 California Play Equity Report offers insight to access gaps and barriers that communities and youth face. Visit 2024report.la84.org for more information.
This report was presented on behalf of the U.S. Surgeon General as an advisory to the mental health and well-being of parents. Based on data findings, there is expressed concern not only for the present mental well-being of parents but also for its direct impact on children. This advisory offers valuable insights to parents and providers alike.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation offers its latest installment to provide information on kinship diversion policies through this analysis report of state-by-state surveys of kinship care policies. Findings are based on 33 state respondents who have policies allowing kinship diversion. The Annie E. Casey Foundation defines kinship diversion as placement of a child with relatives or close family friends as an alternative to a child welfare agency taking custody and placing the child in formal foster care.
Reach Out and Read leverages the pediatric well-child visit and a significant partnership with a clinician network to foster early literacy and healthy relationships among parents, infants, and young children. Reach Out and read annually serves 4.4 million children and families throughout the United States of America.
This resource offers insight into the partnership as well as literary, literacy, and research resources to better advocate for early childhood well-being.
Together for Girls is an international organization spotlighting the importance for youth advocacy and violence prevention against children. Their 2022-2023 impact report spotlights the preventability of violence and importance of change through partnership models.
The Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University offers the LGBTQ Youth & Family Resources page as an additional opportunity for families to access key resources and find support services.
The Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University offers research-based intervention, education, and policy initiatives to support families and youth. These initiatives promote well-being and offer preventative measures to the health and mental risks faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified (LGBTQ) children and youth.
The Family Acceptance Project puts research into practice and offers a myriad of resources to both families and educational providers in order to build greater inclusivity and acceptance.
In commemoration of Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health America (MHA) sponsored the creation of the 2024 BIPOC Mental Health Toolkit.
This toolkit offers fact sheets, outreach ideas, sample newsletters, social media tools, and more to better support youth in our communities.
In commemoration of Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health America (MHA) sponsored the creation of the 2024 BIPOC Mental Health Toolkit.
This toolkit offers fact sheets, outreach ideas, sample newsletters, social media tools, and more to better support youth in our communities.
Safety on college campuses are essential to student well-being, particularly for students who identify as LGBTQ+. This resource, provided by College Educated, is designed to support students, parents, teachers, and campus professionals with a guide to navigate challenges faced while participating on a college campus.
The hope of this guide is to provide a resource that supports the LGBTQ student, parents, teachers and campus professionals to increase understanding, provide resources and education and hopefully help make connections that will keep an LGBTQ in college and successful as they transition to the workplace.
Free SEL curriculum and lesson plans from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – The following SEL lesson plans for students in elementary school through high school include writing prompts, downloadable posters, worksheets, reading lists, and more. With these activities and social and emotional lessons, you can help students build the skills needed for success in and out of the classroom.
April is nationally recognized as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Help prevent child abuse by downloading the contents below and sharing them with your children.
This Child Abuse Prevention Month Toolkit features printouts, worksheets for parent and child, videos, a Powerpoint presentation, hotlines to call, signage, and more.