Young People Content Topic Results

This factsheet is intended to help child welfare professionals build a better understanding of TF-CBT, including which clients should be referred for this approach, how it is implemented, and resources for additional information.

This book is an introduction to trans issues especially for parents. Contents include commonly asked questions, commonalities and differences between sexual orientation and gender identity, issues of transgendered youth, and transgender and the law.

This page provides basic information about dollar limits, qualifying individuals, and reporting for the Child and Dependent Care Credit.

This page contains facts about the human body and a number of resources that help youth learn more about health. Includes information about: functions of the body, practicing good hygiene, making healthy food choices, getting fit and healthy, alcohol and drugs, staying safe, and good mental health.

The purpose of this toolkit is to help tribal child welfare workers and care providers play an effective role in the prevention of suicide among the children and youth they serve. It addresses key youth suicide prevention questions and contains background reading on the issue of suicide in Indian Country and the use of cultural approaches to prevention and community healing.

This handbook emphasizes the importance of talking to your teen about dating relationships. It provides guidance to parents of high school children on how to help teens form healthy relationships and how to protect them from the pressures to engage in risk behaviors.

The Red Flag Campaign uses bystander intervention strategies to address and prevention sexual violence on college campuses.

Pages designed for kids and teens review relevant online safety concerns, including harassment and cyberbullying.

This groundbreaking study by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality provides data showing that adults view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers, especially in the age range of 5-14. This report represents a key step in addressing the disparate treatment of Black girls in public systems.

As youth grow and reach their developmental competencies, there are variables that promote or hinder the process (often referred to as protective and risk factors). This webpage from youth.gov outlines risk and protective factors for mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in adolescence.

This guide aims to synthesize the wide and deep fields of trauma studies, trauma healing, trauma-sensitive education and resilience, and to present this material in ways that are clear, accessible, relevant and applicable to Jewish life, education, organizing and spirituality, in order to create a more just and compassionate world

Safe spaces is a free, online training designed to help individuals working with children and youth recognize and respond to signs of trauma and stress.