Young People Content Topic Results
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Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Special Collection
Special Collection
November 2024
Trauma-Informed Environments for Young People
This Special Collection explores how to build and sustain trauma-informed, asset-based environments for children and youth with an emphasis on promoting the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), or the conditions in the places where children and youth are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and grow.
Special Collection
January 2019
Preventing and Responding to Teen Dating Violence
This Special Collection of resources emphasizes collaborative and multilevel approaches to the prevention of and response to teen dating violence. Recent updates include additional resources for teachers and school-based professionals and a new section to support the efforts of pregnancy prevention advocates and adolescent sexual health practitioners in addressing adolescent relationship abuse.
Special Collection
July 2016
Fostering Resilience, Respect & Healthy Growth in Childhood and Beyond
This Special Collection offers resources that promote strategies for creating environments where children can thrive with a particular focus on enhancing capacity for resilience across the lifespan.
Special Collection
May 2012
Enhanced Services to Children and Youth Exposed to Domestic Violence: Promising Practices & Lessons Learned
This Special Collection provides lessons learned and related resources from nine HHS-funded 3-year demonstration projects to enhance services to children and youth who have been exposed to domestic violence.
Materials
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
November 2024
Fact Sheet: Trauma-Informed Environments for Young People
Publisher(s):This fact sheet accompanies the Special Collection of the same name, offering statistics and tips for creating trauma-informed environments for children and youth where they live, play, and grow.
Materials
- General Material
October 2024
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Health Conditions and Risk Behaviors Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2023
Publisher(s):This report suggests that ACEs are common in U.S. high school students and have significant associations with negative health conditions and risk behaviors.
Materials
- General Material
August 2024
Community Violence Prevention Resource for Action: A Compilation of the Best Available Evidence for Youth and Young Adults
Publisher(s):This prevention resource brings together examples based on the best available evidence. It outlines seven strategies to prevent community violence to ensure everyone can live in safe, healthy, and thriving communities.
Materials
- General Material
August 2024
Parenting After Trauma: Understanding Your Child's Needs
Publisher(s):This resource gives parents an overview of what trauma is, how it shows up, and how to support the child(ren) who are exhibiting signs of being through a traumatic event.
Materials
- General Material
May 2024
Racial Trauma and Systemic Racism in U.S. Schools: The Need for Race-Based Equity Services and Trauma-Informed Trainings
Publisher(s):This resource explores the impacts of racial trauma in schools on youth and provides strategies for incorporating trauma-informed trainings and race-based equity services into the education system.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
February 2024
ACE-DV Speaker’s Toolkit
Publisher(s): This Toolkit offers a variety of practical resources and tools to help build the capacity of adult survivors of children’s exposure to impact change through storytelling. Materials are accessible in a variety of formats to suit the diverse learning styles of this audience.
Materials
- General Material
January 2024
About 16 Million Children in Low-Income Families Would Gain in First Year of Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion
Publisher(s): The bipartisan Child Tax Credit expansion in the tax bill negotiated by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith takes an important step toward making the credit work for children in families with low incomes. This report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities outlines the short- and long-term impact that the proposed CTC expansion could have in lifting children out of poverty.
Materials
- General Material
- Training Tools
December 2023
A guide for community youth advocates to support Latin@ survivors
Publisher(s): Community advocates are leaders who provide direct and indirect services and care to the health and well-being of people in their community. They assist survivors as they manage through systems that intersect with their overall health. Advocates can take action to significantly improve the health and well-being of Latin@ survivors of IPV navigating health systems with the use of this tool from Esperanza United.