Positive Youth Development

Program Name (in ABC order with website hyperlink)

Description

Type of Resource

Audience

3 Bold Steps in Action

• Activities and tools show how 3 Bold Steps can help create positive, lasting change to prevent bullying, promote social emotional learning in early childhood, promote student mental health, and prevent youth substance abuse.

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All Stars (v. 3)

• School-based program for middle school students (11-14 years old) designed to prevent and delay the onset of high-risk behaviors such as drug use, violence, and premature sexual activity.
• Focuses on five topics important to preventing high-risk behaviors: (1) developing positive ideals that do not fit with high-risk behavior; (2) creating a belief in conventional norms; (3) building strong personal commitments to avoid high-risk behaviors; (4) bonding with school, prosocial institutions, and family; and (5) increasing positive parental attentiveness such as positive communication and parental          monitoring.
• Curriculum includes highly interactive group     activities, games and art projects, small            group discussions, one-on-one sessions, a parent component, optional online activities and worksheets, and a celebration ceremony.
• Consists of thirteen 45-minute class sessions delivered on a weekly basis.
• All Stars Booster is an optional program designed to be delivered 1 year after the core program and includes nine 45-minute sessions reinforcing lessons learned in the previous year.
• All Stars Plus includes twelve 45-minute lessons designed to expand instruction to include three additional topics--decision making, goal setting, and peer pressure resistance skills training--and is intended as an option for the third year of the intervention.

Can only be delivered by a qualified substance use prevention specialist.

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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

• Identifies, recommends, and disseminates practices/programs for youth, families and communities that, based on scientific evaluations, have strong evidence of effectiveness.
• Practices/programs rated as either Promising, Model or Model Plus.
• Provides interactive search function that enables you to search based on specific criteria and then browse through a wide range of practices/programs that match those criteria.
• Each result will indicate the practice/program rating.

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California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare

• Mission of the CEBC is to advance the effective implementation of evidence-based practices for children and families involved with the child welfare system.
• Searchable database of child welfare related programs.
• Description and information on research evidence for specific programs.
• Guidance on how to make critical decisions regarding selecting and implementing programs
• Tools and materials to provide support for choosing, implementing and sustaining a program.

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Caring School Community

• Caring School Community is a comprehensive, research-based social and emotional learning (SEL) program that builds school-wide community, develops students’ social skills and SEL competencies, and enables a transformative stance on discipline.
• This CASEL SELect program promotes positive behavior through direct teaching of responsibility, empathy, and cooperation, creating settings where students feel heard, known, and cared for.
• Students become intrinsically motivated to contribute productively to a community they feel invested in, and where they know they matter.
• Caring School Community is built around the following principles:

• A focus on the whole school community: Community must include everyone: students, parents, school leaders, teachers, custodians, cafeteria staff, yard supervisors, and support staff.
• Relationships matter: Relationships underpin teaching, learning, and prosocial development. Building relationships and fostering a sense of community are hallmarks of the program.
• Comprehensive leadership guidance: The program includes everything a leader needs for a successful implementation, including step-by-step guidance and resources to help plan for, launch, and support implementation.
• A unique stance on discipline: No more gold stars. A focus on community, not compliance. Caring School Community builds on the powerful insight that when students have strong relationships within their community, they are more likely to acquire self-discipline and feel a sense of responsibility to themselves and to others.
• A year’s worth of teacher-friendly, easy-to-implement, grade-specific instruction: A full 30 weeks of daily, grade-specific lessons across K–8 that only require 30 minutes a day, with a comprehensive scope and sequence to build relationships, social skills, and competencies intentionally over time.
• Creating calm, orderly learning environments: Through consistent use of effective classroom management practices and structures that build relationships, the program helps teachers create calm, safe classrooms that are more conducive to learning.
• Robust content for middle school: Grades 6–8 are not an afterthought. \
• The program provides comprehensive Advisory Period lessons as well as guidance for integrating SEL across all subject areas.
• Lessons address developmentally appropriate and urgent topics for middle school.

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CASEL Program Guides (Social Emotional Learning)

• Provides a systematic framework to rate and identify well-designed, evidence-based social and emotional learning programs with potential for broad dissemination to schools across the United States.
• The primary goal of the Guide is to give educators information for selecting and implementing SEL programs in their districts and schools.
• 2015 CASEL Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs—Middle and High School Edition:
• Identifies school-based programs that have been evaluated with middle and high school students and that promote students’ personal and social competence.
• Current best practice guidelines for education at the middle-school level recognize the diverse developmental needs of this age group and the importance of promoting both academic and personal development, including social and emotional competence.
• The importance of SEL for high school is also growing considering its link to college and career readiness and dropout prevention.
• The knowledge, skills, and attitudes within the CASEL five competency clusters are especially critical during adolescence because youth at this stage are going through rapid physical, emotional, and cognitive changes which create unique opportunities for personal and social skill development.
• Adolescents also engage in more risky behavior than younger students and face a variety of challenging situations, including increased independence, peer pressure, and exposure to social media.
• Longitudinal studies have shown that increased social and emotional competence is related to reductions in a variety of problem behaviors including aggression, delinquency, substance use, and dropout.

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Conscious Discipline

• Early childhood program that aims to modify teacher and child behavior to create classrooms based on safety, connection, and problem solving.
• Goal is to create a system-wide, relationship-based, community model for behavior management, called the “School Family”.
• Promoted through program activities that involve intensive teacher training and self-study; coaching and continuing support for teachers as they deploy conceptual components in the classroom and model behaviors; and exposure of students to various social opportunities, including schoolwide opportunities and practice of skills.
• Can participate in a 10-session online course, attend a 2-day workshop, or hold workshop at your school. There are also free resources on the website.
• Multi-family group program; 8 weekly sessions, each 2 ½ hrs. - a trained team of a parent, school professional, clinical social worker, and substance abuse counselor facilitate sessions.
• Audience also includes parent.

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Creating Lasting Family Connections

• The CLFC Program builds family skills and knowledge related to how childhood experiences can influence our behaviors and beliefs as adults; the differences between thoughts, feelings and behaviors; the developmental stages of children; characteristics of healthy families; emotional awareness and healthy emotional expression; developing expectations and consequences in relationships; saying “no” to people we’re close to in a manner that preserves and/or strengthens our relationship with them; our experiences with alcohol while we were growing up; examining the differences between abstinence from alcohol use, drinking alcohol in low risk ways, becoming drunk and developing alcoholism; examining the possibility of drinking responsibly; the characteristics of positive, influential parents and adults; cultural influences on attitudes and behaviors related to alcohol use; how to recognize when someone may be having problems with alcohol (or other drugs); methods for the prevention of, intervention in, and treatment of the development of a substance addiction; how alcoholism affects families; and the view that any substance addiction (including alcoholism) is a disease.
• It is a structured curriculum for youth ages 9-17 and their parents, guardians, and other family members to improve their ability to provide a nurturing environment for each other in a very effective and meaningful way.
• Participating youth and adults are encouraged to improve their personal growth through increasing self-awareness, expression of feelings, interpersonal communication, and self-disclosure.
• Participants are taught social skills, refusal skills, and appropriate knowledge and healthy beliefs about alcohol and drugs, which provide a strong defense against environmental risk factors that can lead to negative outcomes for youth.
• Also provides parents and other caring adults with family management, family enhancement, and communications training.
• All participants are provided opportunities to practice these skills in a safe, peer-group setting.

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Curriculum-Based Support Group (CBSG)

• Support group intervention designed to increase resiliency and reduce risk factors among children and youth ages 4-17 who are identified as being at elevated risk for early substance use and future delinquency and violence (e.g., they are living in adverse family situations, displaying observable gaps in coping and social skills, or displaying early indicators of antisocial attitudes and behaviors).
• Based on cognitive-behavioral and competence-enhancement models of prevention, the CBSG Program teaches essential life skills and offers emotional support to help children and youth cope with difficult family situations; resist peer pressure; set and achieve goals; refuse alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; and reduce antisocial attitudes and rebellious behavior.
• Delivered in 10-12 weekly, 1-hour support group sessions, the curriculum addresses topics such as self-concept, anger and other feelings, dreams and goal setting, healthy choices, friends, peer pressure, life challenges, family chemical dependency, and making a public commitment to staying drug free and true to life goals.
• Lesson content and objectives are essentially the same for all participants but are tailored for age and developmental status.
• Groups are formed with 6-10 participants no more than 2 years apart in age.

Can only be delivered by a qualified substance use prevention specialist.

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Families and Schools Together (FAST)

• Internationally acclaimed parent engagement program that helps children thrive by building strong relationships at home.
• Multifamily group intervention program designed to build protective factors for children, empower parents to be primary prevention agents, and build supportive parent-to-parent groups.
• Helps children thrive by building stronger, more supportive relationships at home.  Consistently produces statistically significant improvements in children’s behavior, emotional well-being, and academic performance while building social capital among families, schools and communities.
• 8 weekly sessions, each 2 ½ hrs. - a trained team of a parent, school professional, clinical social worker, and substance abuse counselor facilitate sessions.

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I Can Problem Solve

• Universal school-based program designed to enhance the interpersonal cognitive processes and problem-solving skills of children.
• Proven to prevent and reduce early high-risk behaviors such as impulsivity and social withdrawal, and to promote prosocial behaviors such as concern for others and positive peer relationships.
• Lessons speak to children on their own level, using games, stories, puppets, illustrations, and role-plays.
• Key program principle is that the child, not the teacher, must solve the problem at hand; therefore, it teaches children how to think, not what to think.
• The Center for Schools and Communities provides training and consultation for schools, facilities, or organizations nationwide.
• Book describing social and emotional learning program. Organization also provides training and technical assistance.

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Leader in Me

• Leader in Me endorsed by CASEL.   The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a renowned authority on the promotion and practice of social and emotional skills.
• In particular, their work promotes the integration of academic, social, and emotional learning for students from Pre-K through grade 12.
• Through their collaborative work with researchers and educators, CASEL has identified five core social-emotional learning competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. These competencies directly align with the components of the social emotional learning as required by the Texas Health and Safety Code Section 161.325.  
• The skills of social and emotional learning (SEL) are foundational to a successful life and career. When these skills are applied in social contexts, they promote successful self-management, communication, collaboration, and meaningful, high-trust relationships.
• When applied in educational settings, social and emotional skills strengthen effective learning by developing vital skills such as responsibility, resilience, focus, goal-setting, prioritization, empathy, communication, collaboration, and motivation. 
• The end in mind is to develop leadership competence in students, starting with Leading Self then Leading Others. 
• The Student Leadership Portrait is comprised of twelve competencies across four leadership domains. 
• The six competencies of Personal Effectiveness and Interpersonal Effectiveness are at the heart of life-ready leadership, and broadly represent.
• As a student develops SEL competencies, aligned to each of the 7 Habits, their ability to apply them to both their life and academic pursuits expands.
• When paired with an empowering school environment (physical and emotional), along with student voice, student choice, and student-led learning, leadership competencies transform into lifelong skills for success.
• This further development is represented in the Leading Self and Leading Others domains.  

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Lessons in Character

• Designed to promote elementary and middle school students’ knowledge about core character education values and, through that knowledge, shape children’s positive behaviors and support academic success.
• Consists of 24 lessons organized around weekly themes, writing activities, and class projects.
• Teachers introduce the theme with a story that shows a value in action; students then engage in that topic with a variety of activities.
• Also includes daily oral language development and weekly writing assignments which are optional parts of the program’s implementation.
• 1-day training; 24 class lessons

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Life Skills Training (LST)

• Evidence-based substance use and misuse, and violence prevention program used in schools and communities throughout the US and in 39 countries around the world.
• Extensively tested and proven to reduce tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use by as much as 80%.
• Long-term follow-up studies show that it produces prevention effects that are durable and long-lasting.
• Main goals are to teach prevention-related information, promote anti-drug norms, teach drug refusal skills, and foster the development of personal self-management skills and general social skills.

Can only be delivered by a qualified substance use prevention specialist.

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Lions Quest, Skills for Adolescence

• Lions Quest programs are built on the foundation of an educational approach known as Social and Emotional Learning (SEL).
• Lions Quest programs support, encourage, and celebrate diversity.
• The programs guide students to learn the social, emotional, and thinking skills they will need in a safe and supportive environment.
• Lions Quest programs offer a comprehensive and coordinated approach to prevention that creates the conditions and teaches the skills to prevent risky behaviors while cultivating positive social behaviors.
• Lions Quest helps provide protective factors by creating a strong connection to school, involving parents in the lives of their children, and helping students gain the knowledge, skill, and commitment to make healthy choices when they face pressure to use alcohol, drugs, and tobacco. Unit 4 of Lions Quest focuses more specifically on the elements that research consistently identifies as critical to preventing adolescent drug use.

These elements are:

• Normative beliefs and personal commitments: to recognize that using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is not the norm among young people, and to have a personal commitment not to use drugs.
• Social Influences – to recognize the internal and external pressures that influence drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and to have positive peer pressure and support for non-use.
• Resistance skills and other emotional/social competencies – to have the self-management, problem-solving, stress reduction and assertiveness/refusal skills that help prevent drug use.
• Expectations of drug effect – to have accurate, age-appropriate information about the short and long-term impact of drug use on a young person’s health, friendships, interests, and future goals.
• Bonding and pro-social peers and caring adults – to have positive commitments, constructive role models, and supportive, friends, family and community members who reinforce key prevention concepts and skills.

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Mental Health America

• Aims to increase emotional intelligence and self-regulation through materials for parents, school personnel, and students.
• Prevention and Early Intervention page includes information on genetics and brain development, risk and protective factors, statistics, fact sheets on prevention and early intervention, links to programs, strategies, research and Webinar recordings.
• Includes posters, media materials, handouts, social media, and web content for youth and adults easily linked to and shared in electronic newsletters and over social media.

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Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA)

• Teaches individuals who work or live with adolescents (ages 12 - 18) how to help these youth when they experience a mental health or substance use crisis.
• Training includes identifying risk factors and warning signs of mental health and substance use problems that may start in adolescence; information on a 5-step action plan to help someone in crisis; and where to turn for help – professional, peer, and self-help resources.
• Teaches about recovery and resiliency – the belief that individuals experiencing these challenges can and do get better and use their strengths to stay well.

Adult Mental Health First Aid (AMHFA)

• Teaches individuals how to help someone who is experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis.
• Training includes identifying risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems; information on depression, anxiety, trauma, psychosis, and addiction disorders; a 5-step action plan to help someone developing a mental health problem or in crisis; and where to turn for help – professional, peer, and self-help resources.
• Teaches about recovery and resiliency – the belief that individuals experiencing these challenges can and do get better and use their strengths to stay well.       

Teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA)

• This in-person training teaches high school students about common mental health challenges and what they can do to support their own mental health and help a friend who is struggling.
• It’s equipping young people with the knowledge and skills they need to foster their own wellness and to support each other
• It is designed to be delivered in schools or community sites in three interactive classroom sessions of 90 minutes each or six sessions of 45 minutes each.

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Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC)

• Website that offers array of numerous mental and behavioral health trainings and educational aides to better improve the knowledge of mental health professionals, educators, and agencies.
• Offers webinars and community-based opportunities to fulfill subject matter interest and required trainings for agencies.
• Maintains a culturally and linguistic competent approach to all offered trainings.

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Mental Health Wellness for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (MHW-IDD)

• eLearning training course developed by Texas that consists of 6 modules which educate participants about the behavioral health needs of people who have an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD).
• Can take modules on a self-paced schedule and print certificate of completion at the end of all modules.
• Modules included in this course are:
      o Co-occurring disorders: IDD and Mental Illness
      o Trauma Informed care for individuals with IDD
      o Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Support   
      o Overview of genetic syndromes associated with IDD
      o Overview of medical diagnoses associated with IDD
      o Putting it all together: Supports and strategies for direct service workers.
• Each module is approximately 50 minutes long, but can be self-paced.

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Office of Juvenile Justice Prevention

• Model Programs Guide (MPG) contains information about evidence-based juvenile justice and youth prevention, intervention, and reentry practices/programs.
• Resource for practitioners and communities about what works, what is promising, and what does not work in juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and schools.

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Olweus Bullying Program

• Multicomponent program aimed at preventing or reducing bullying among middle school students.
• Provides comprehensive framework focused on systemic change to create a safe and positive school climate.
• Utilizes online courses, web conferences and in-person program implementation seminars.
• Interactive programs provide key information about bullying, cyber bullying, and dating violence, and explain how schools, community organizations, and parents can create safe, healthy environments.
• Trained members make it possible to sustain program by training new staff members year after year.
• 2 day in-person training; website does have some tip sheets are FREE as well as online trainings

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PAX Good Behavior Game

• Classroom based system that teachers use to teach skills for self-regulation, co-regulation, and self-control during any school or after school activity.
• Builds self-regulation in young people by creating shared classroom/school purpose and vision with adults and peers to create more peace, productivity, health and happiness.
• Students work together—reinforcing desirable behaviors (called PAX) and inhibiting unwanted behaviors (called Spleems).
• Students build skills to increase their pro-social behavior and self-regulation, paving the way for better immediate and lifetime academic, behavioral/health, and positive lifetime outcomes.
• Develops and strengthens peer networks to improve relationships now and in the future, with lower risk of self-harm or harm to others.
• Provides teachers and administrators with practical tiered-intervention strategies to implement PBIS in the classroom.
• Length of training unknown.

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Peer Assistance and Leadership (PAL)

• Peer helping program that seeks to build resiliency in youth by pairing youth with peer helpers who receive training and support from teachers participating in the program.

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Positive Action (PA)

• Aims to promote character development, academic achievement, and social-emotional skills, and to reduce disruptive and problem behavior.
• Based on the philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you think and do positive actions, and there is always a positive way to do everything.
• Lessons are scripted and use classroom discussion, role-play, games, songs, and activity sheets or text booklets.
• Optional components include site-wide climate development; drug education for grade 5 and middle school; conflict resolution; counselor, parent, and family classes; and community/coalition components.

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Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

• Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) is an operational framework for achieving academic and behavior outcomes for all students.
• Ensures all students have access to effective and accurate instructional and behavioral practices as well as interventions.
• Is a decision-making framework using data to guide selection, integration, and implementation of evidence-based academic and behavior best practices.
• This practice framework is specifically designed to educate about PBIS.
• This schoolwide framework includes practices that are delivered by school personnel, including in the classroom.

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Positive School Discipline 

• Comprehensive approach that uses discipline to teach rather than punish and, as a result, helps students succeed and thrive in school.
• Promotes positive student behavior while preventing negative and risky behaviors.
  Integrated into the policies, programs, and practices of a school and applied system-wide—in the classroom, school, and community—to create a safe, supportive learning environment for all students. 
• Helps guide school leaders to create an environment where students can learn and thrive.
• Team User’s Guide for group learning among leaders within a school or district.
• This is a school-wide practice-framework.
  Self-paced, interactive course for school leaders

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Prevent Cyberbullying  

• Provides information and strategies for schools on cyberbullying regarding: awareness, warning signs that a child is being cyberbullied or is cyberbullying others, and what to do when cyberbullying happens. 
  Includes prevention strategies for establishing policies, engaging parents, students and the community in prevention. 
• Guidance is provided to build a safe environment at school, including a recommendation for PBIS strategies to reward students when they show thoughtfulness and respect for peers, adults and the school.
• A searchable database includes resources for bully prevention tips, facts, campaigns and curriculum for both bullying and cyberbullying.
• Length of time varies.

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Preventing Bullying

• General Topics include: School and Community Prevention and Intervention, Cyberbullying, and Preventing Bullying in Early Childhood.
• Create an action plan based on who you are (parents, educators, community partners), topic chosen (understanding, prevention, intervention), and specialty (School and community prevention and intervention, Preventing Bullying in Early Childhood, Cyberbullying).

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Project Toward No Drug Abuse (PTND)

• Drug use prevention program for high school youth.
• Designed to help students develop self-control and communication skills, acquire resources that help them resist drug use, improve decision making strategies, and develop the motivation to not use drugs.
• Packaged in 12 40-minute interactive sessions.
• Curriculum was developed for high-risk students in continuation or alternative high schools.

Can only be delivered by a qualified substance use prevention specialist.

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Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies - PATHS

• The PATHS® curriculum is a comprehensive program for promoting emotional and social competencies and reducing aggression and behavior problems in elementary school-aged children while simultaneously enhancing the educational process in the classroom. 
• This innovative curriculum is designed to be used by educators and counselors in a multi-year, universal prevention model.
•  Although primarily focused on the school and classroom settings, information and activities are also included for use with parents.
• Over the past 35 years, more than 40 published research studies (by ourselves and others, both nationally and internationally) have documented the effectiveness of the PATHS® program.
• A wide variety of results has consistently shown improvements in seven major goals of education needed for the development of healthy, happy children and future adults:

• Improved academic achievement.
• Decreased emotional suffering & behavioral problems
• Increased happiness, health, and emotional well-being
• Improved emotional literacy, self-control, & problem-solving skills
• Healthy relationships and social skills
• Preparation for the future: Workforce
• Skills for the future: Life satisfaction, good health, & citizenship

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Putting Positive Youth Development into Practice: A resource guide

• This resource guide presents the principles of positive youth development and was published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Family and Youth Services Bureau.
  Length of time varies.

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Reconnecting Youth

• Reconnecting Youth (RY) is an award-winning, prevention program that helps at-risk youth achieve in school and decrease their drug use, anger, depression, and emotional distress.
• Designed as a semester-long class offered for school credit, the RY curriculum focuses on skills training within the context of a peer group and adult support.
• RY Program Goals

     • Increased School Performance
     • Decreased Drug Involvement
     • Decreased Emotional Distress

•  The RY curriculum:
• There are 75 lessons in the RY curriculum. It is typically offered as a semester-long, for-credit class by a teacher/facilitator who works well with youth at risk and who is trained to implement the RY program.

                    1. Getting Started
                    2. Self-esteem Enhancement
                    3. Decision Making
                    4. Personal Control
                    5. Interpersonal Communication

• Social and School Bonding Activities:
  An important component of the RY Program is increasing RY student involvement in healthy social activities and engaging them in activities that increase bonding to their school.
• The curriculum describes a variety of ways this can be done.
• School Crisis Response Plan:
  A School Crisis Response Plan is the third component of the RY Program. Such a plan is necessary because many at-risk youth experience depression and suicide-risk behaviors.

The RY School Crisis Response Plan prepares school staff members

• to identify and respond to students who are suicidal and
• to respond, if necessary, with post-suicide intervention strategies.

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Responding in Peaceful Positive Ways - RiPP

• (RiPP) is a school-based violence prevention program designed to provide students ages 10–14 in middle and junior high schools with conflict resolution strategies and skills.
• RiPP is designed to be implemented along with a peer mediation program. It combines a classroom curriculum of social/cognitive problem solving with real-life skill-building opportunities.
• Students learn to apply critical-thinking skills and personal management strategies to personal health and well-being issues.
• Delivered over the school year, RiPP teaches key concepts that include:

• The importance of significant friends or adult mentors.
• The relationship between self-image and gang-related behaviors.
• The effects of environmental influences on personal health.
• Using a variety of lessons and activities, students learn about the physical and mental development that occurs during adolescence, how to analyze the consequences of personal choices on health and well-being, learn that they have nonviolent options when conflicts arise, and experience the benefits of being a positive family and community role model.
• Multiple studies reported benefits in self-reported experience of violent and aggressive behavior for students who received RiPP compared with peers who did not receive the intervention, including:
• Lower rates of being injured in a fight in the past 30 days in which the injuries required medical attention
• Higher rates of participation in peer mediation
• Among girls only, lower rates of threatening to hurt a teacher
• Among 7th-grade RiPP participants, less frequent violent behavior at 6-month follow-up
• Lower frequency of physical aggression, despite the observation that both RiPP participants and their peers demonstrated an increase in problem behaviors over time
• At 9-month follow-up, reduced rates of bringing a weapon to school, threatening someone with a weapon, and sustaining fight-related injuries in the pas 30 days

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Restorative Justice / Restorative Practices

• Trauma-informed practice that fosters belonging over exclusion, social engagement over control, and meaningful accountability over punishment. 
• Integrating Positive and Restorative Practices to Supporting Student Behavior, a training available at the 20 ESCs, has been designed to help schools develop Restorative Discipline practices within a Positive Behavior
• Interventions and Supports framework.
  Restorative Discipline Practices (RDP) in Texas began in the Fall of 2015. The Texas Education Agency partnered with the Institute for Restorative Justice and Restorative Dialogue at The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work to participate in a statewide roll out.
• This is a school-wide practice-framework that involves training.

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Ripple Effects

• Strengths-based assessment tools
• Digital planning tools
• Multi-tiered learner-directed skill building
• Data tracking tools embedded
• PK-12
• Can be implemented by paraprofessionals
• Outcomes
• Reduced school suspensions
• Greater high school retention
• Greater attendance
• Improved GPA
• Reduced depression
• Greater empathy
• Improved problem solving

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Road to Recovery: Supporting Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Who Have Experienced Trauma 

• Training from NCTSN that provides an overview for providers on how to work with children and families who are living with intellectual and development disabilities (IDD) who have experienced trauma.
• Toolkit consists of a Facilitator Guide and a Participant Manual which are designed to teach basic knowledge, skills, and values about working with children with IDD who have had traumatic experiences, and how to use this knowledge to support children’s safety, well-being, happiness, and recovery through trauma-informed practice.
• This training is specifically designed to educate about trauma-informed care and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• 2 day in-person training; website does have some tip sheets are FREE as well as online trainings.

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Safe Schools

• Completely automates your staff and student training. 
• Access high quality courses on important school safety topics by leading experts.
• Implementation is fast and easy and your subscription-based system can be set up in just a few hours.
• Our courses are written specifically for school staff members and students.
• An annual subscription includes access to hundreds of school safety courses, written by industry experts.
• Length of training varies.
• *Could meet statute if LEA has purchased modules for PYS.

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SAMHSA Programs

• Offer information, training, and technical assistance to improve the quality and delivery of behavioral health services across the nation.

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School Climate Improvement Resource Package 

• The way students, families, teachers, and other school staff experience the school and school-related activities affects student attendance, learning, and achievement.
• Provides district and school leaders, teachers, school staff, and other members of the school community with the basics on how to initiate, implement, and sustain school climate improvements.
• Length of time for school-wide implementation varies.

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School Climate Practice 

• Website includes a resource center with briefs, tools, case studies, and effective practices for building and sustaining a positive school climate.
• Information available on measuring school climate and access to a comprehensive school climate inventory.
• The center provides a school climate building process that is integrated with social and emotional learning, bully prevention and diversity inclusion best practices.
• Length of time for school-wide implementation varies

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School Climate Survey 

• U.S. Department of Education (ED) provides survey with reports to guide initiatives designed to measure and strengthen a positive school climate. 
• School Climate is measured across three domains including: Engagement, Safety and Environment. 
• Items assessed within the domains include: Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Relationships, School Participation, Emotional Safety, Physical Safety, Bullying/Cyberbullying, Substance Abuse, Emergency Preparedness/Management, Physical Environment, Instructional Environment, Physical Health, Mental Health and Discipline.
•  Surveys are available for engaging stakeholders in the process including educators, community members, parents and students.
• Length of time for school-wide implementation varies

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Second Step Suite

• Provides instruction in social and emotional learning with units on skills for learning, empathy, emotion management, friendship skills, and problem solving.
• Includes bully prevention and child protection modules and has a strong evidence-base for increased positive behavior, reduced conduct problems, reduced emotional distress, improved social and emotional skill performance.
• Contains separate sets of lessons for use in prekindergarten through eighth grade implemented in 22 to 28 weeks each year.
• Uses four key strategies to reinforce skill development: brain builder games (to build executive function), weekly theme activities, reinforcing activities, and home links in English and Spanish.
• Tools are available for administrators for embedding SEL concepts into school policies to sustain a culture of caring, learning and achievement.
• Lessons implemented over a period of 22 to 28 weeks each year

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Social Programs that Work

• Site seeks to identify those social programs shown in rigorous studies to produce sizable, sustained benefits to participants and/or society, so that they can be deployed to help solve social problems.
• The specific purpose is to enable policy officials and other readers to distinguish credible findings of program effectiveness from the many others that claim to be.
• Site focuses on the results of well-conducted randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which are widely regarded as the strongest method of evaluating program effectiveness.
• Site identifies programs that, based on careful review of the studies in consultation with outside experts, meet the criteria for “Top Tier,” “Near Top Tier,” or “Suggestive Tier.”
• Length of time varies by resource.

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Starr Commonwealth Training on Trauma Informed Care and Resiliency

• Offers a number of trainings – both online and in-person – and resources for educators and clinicians on Trauma Informed Care and Resiliency in Schools.
• Trauma Informed Resilient Schools – https://starr.org/course/trauma-informed-resilient-schools/
• Resetting for Resilience - https://starr.org/course/resetting-for-resilience/
• Healing Trauma and Restoring Resilience in Schools - https://starr.org/course/healing-trauma-and-restoring-resilience-in-schools/
• Length of training varies.
• May meet HB 18 Section 11.252 and SB 11 Section 38.036 training requirements in trauma-informed care policy. See Trauma Sensitive School, Midwest PBIS Network Trauma-Informed Care for Schools, or Helping Traumatized Children Learn for school-wide implementation of Trauma Informed Care policy.

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Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program

• Schoolwide intervention designed to prevent bullying behavior and counter the personal and social effects of bullying where it occurs by promoting a positive school climate.

The program aims to:
        (1) increase school staff's awareness and                   responsiveness to bullying situations,

        (2) foster socially responsible beliefs among            students,
        (3) enhance social and emotional skills to                 counter bullying and to promote healthy                  relationships,
        (4) promote actions (e.g., joining groups,                   resolving conflict) associated with general               social competence, and
        (5) reduce bullying (and related problems)               and improve positive bystander behavior.

• The program has three components: schoolwide program guide, staff training and classroom curriculum.
• Schoolwide Practice.

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Strengthening Families - 14 sessions (SFP 6 - 16)

• Family skills training program designed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for behavioral, emotional, academic, and social problems in children 3-16 years old.
• Comprises three life-skills courses delivered in 14 weekly, 2-hour sessions.
• Parenting Skills sessions are designed to help parents learn to increase desired behaviors in children by using attention and rewards, clear communication, effective discipline, substance use education, problem solving, and limit setting.
• Children's Life Skills sessions are designed to help children learn effective communication, understand their feelings, improve social and problem-solving skills, resist peer pressure, understand the consequences of substance use, and comply with parental rules.
• In the Family Life Skills sessions, families engage in structured family activities, practice therapeutic child play, conduct family meetings, learn communication skills, practice effective discipline, reinforce positive behaviors in each other, and plan family activities together.
• Participation in ongoing family support groups and booster Family focused program. 
• Groups of Parents and Youths are each involved simultaneously in their own separate youth and adult curricula lasting for 14 sessions.

Can only be delivered by a qualified substance use prevention specialist.

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Strengthening Families - 7 video sessions (SFP 10-14)

• Family skills training intervention designed to enhance school success and reduce youth substance use and aggression among 10- to 14-year-olds.
• Theoretically based on several etiological and intervention models including the biopsychosocial vulnerability, resiliency, and family process models.
• Includes seven 2-hour sessions and four optional booster sessions in which parents and youth meet separately for instruction during the first hour and together for family activities during the second hour.
• Sessions provide instruction for parents on understanding the risk factors for substance use, enhancing parent-child bonding, monitoring compliance with parental guidelines and imposing appropriate consequences, managing anger and family conflict, and fostering positive child involvement in family tasks.
• Children receive instruction on resisting peer influences to use substances.
• Sessions are typically held once a week. 
• Family focused Youth Prevention Universal program.
• Groups of Parents and Youth are each involved simultaneously in their own separate youth and adult curricula lasting for 7 sessions.

Can only be delivered by a qualified substance use prevention specialist.

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Student Success Skills

• Student Success Skills (SSS) is a school counselor led program based on the principle that students can improve academically when surrounded by a supportive environment that involves skill-building activities in self-management, prosocial behaviors, and cognition.

It is a humanistic approach to school counseling that focuses on the following areas:

• (1) cognitive factors, including memory and learning processes,
• (2) attitudinal skills,
• (3) self-regulation and metacognitive abilities,
• (4) behavioral strategies and goals, and
• (5) social skills training.

Significant Positive Findings: reduced problem behaviors, increased cooperation, reduced bullying, reduced anxiety, improved impulse control, improved motivation

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Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) - Schools

• Teachers, mental health providers, and all other school personnel who interact with students can play an important role in keeping them safe.
• Why Address Suicide Prevention - 
     o Maintaining a safe school environment is part of your school's overall mission.
     o Students' mental health can affect how well they perform in school.
     o Suicide can affect the entire school community.
• How Schools Can Take Action - 
     o The best way to prevent suicide is to use a comprehensive approach that includes these key components:
     o Promote emotional well-being and connectedness among all students.
     o Identify students who may be at risk for suicide and assist them in getting help.
     o Be prepared to respond when a suicide death occurs.
• Learn More -
     o See the Recommended Resources below selected by SPRC personnel.
     o See All Resources Related to Schools for a full list of materials, programs, trainings, and other information available from SPRC. Use the filters on the left to narrow your results.
  For more on other settings and groups, see our Settings and Populations pages.
• Multiple resources - fact sheets, programs, practices, trainings.

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Texas Behavior Support Initiative Training

• The Texas Behavior Support Initiative (TBSI) training is a state-level training mandated by Senate Bill 1196 and the Texas Administrative Code §89.1053.
• TBSI training is designed to provide foundational knowledge for the use of positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) for all students, including those with disabilities.
• While the TBSI training meets legislative requirements related to procedures for the use of restraint and time-out, it also provides a framework for sharing a wide range of foundation-level behavior strategies and prevention-based school-wide, classroom, and individual interventions.
• This training is specifically designed to educate about PBIS.
• On-line, self-paced courses

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Texas School Safety Center (TxSSC)

• Official university-level research center at Texas State University.
• Serves as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of safety and security information through research, training, and technical assistance for K-12 schools and junior colleges throughout the state of Texas.
• Also builds partnerships among youth, adults, schools, law enforcement officers, and community stakeholders to reduce the impact of tobacco on all Texans through prevention, training and enforcement initiatives.

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The Incredible Years

• Set of three interlocking, comprehensive, and developmentally based training programs for children and their parents and teachers.
• Child program designed for children with challenging behaviors and focuses on building social and emotional skills.
• Lessons can be delivered to children referred for difficult behavior or to an entire classroom as a preventative measure.
• Program consists of 20- to 30-minute lessons, 2-3 times a week, which are reinforced by small-group activities, practicing skills throughout the day, and communicating with parents.
• Lessons cover recognizing and understanding feelings, getting along with friends, anger management, problem solving, and behavior at school.
• Parent training programs focus on positive discipline, promoting learning and development, and involvement in children’s life at school.
• Program focuses on strengthening teachers' classroom management strategies; promoting children's prosocial behavior, emotional self-regulation, and school readiness; and reducing children's classroom aggression and noncooperation with peers and teachers.
• Also helps teachers collaborate with parents to support parents' school involvement and promote consistency between home and school.
• A required teacher training program is delivered to early childhood and elementary school teachers of young children (3-8 years) and consists of 42 hours (6 days) of monthly workshops delivered by a trained facilitator.

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The Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF)

• A structure and process to integrate Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and School Mental Health (SMH) within school systems.
• Goal is to blend resources, training, systems, data, and practices to improve outcomes for all children and youth.
• Emphasis on prevention, early identification, and intervention of the social, emotional, and behavior needs of students.
• Family and community partner involvement critical to this framework.
• Training intended for schools or communities to identify needs in supporting students beyond acting out problem behavior.
• Training will assist teams in exploring the need within their district and identify how an integrated system might improve desired outcomes within their school community.
• Participants will learn about key messages of the ISF and how ISF enhances core features of PBIS.
• Includes engaging stakeholders to work differently, establishing a structure for integrated work, and creating a shared system.
• Participants will develop an action plan for taking key learning back to engage district and community leadership.
• The Midwest PBIS Network page has a variety of resources, training materials, tools and recorded webinars.
• This practice framework is specifically designed to educate about PBIS and school mental health.
• This schoolwide framework includes practices that are delivered by school personnel, including in the classroom. Website includes tools, webinars, trainings, presentations that can be downloaded.

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The Search Institute – Developmental Assets

• Website provides tools for classroom activities to measure and improve academic motivation. 
• Resources examine social and emotional factors along with other key variables that affect student motivation and engagement.
  Keep Connected is a parent engagement program for schools. 
• Offers FREE resources
• Length of time varies by resource.

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Too Good for Drugs 2(TGFD)

• Universal K-12 prevention education program designed to mitigate the risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use.
• Lessons introduce and develop social and emotional skills for making healthy choices, building positive friendships, developing self-efficacy, communicating effectively, and resisting peer pressure and influence.
• Teaches five essential social and emotional learning skills, which research has linked with healthy development and academic success:
     o Setting Reachable Goals
     o Making Responsible Decisions
     o Bonding with Pro-Social Others
     o Identifying and Managing Emotions
     o Communicating Effectively

Can only be delivered by a qualified substance use prevention specialist.

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Transition of Youth and Young Adults with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties

• Evidenced Supported Approaches that assist high school students with mental health disorders in finding and maintaining employment, establishing positive relationships, learning tools to achieve goals, and build strengths when transitioning to adulthood and out of the home and school setting.
• Outlines systemic approaches from the educational, justice, mental health, and other community settings to support positive outcomes that are developmentally and culturally appropriate and reduce common transitioning risk behaviors through strengths-based prevention planning and coordinated care.
• Book

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Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents - TGCT-A

• Program is suitable for either individual or group applications in clinical or school settings.
• Manual provides detailed descriptions of the sessions, focusing on trauma psychoeducation, activities to enhance emotional awareness, identification of personal trauma/grief symptoms and trauma/loss reminders, development of a personal set of coping skills, and how to access different types of support
• 2-3 day in-person training.
• Program includes 8-24 therapeutic sessions.

Can only be delivered by a qualified behavioral health provider.

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Trauma Sensitive Schools

• Whole-school approach to creating trauma sensitive schools.
• Seminal materials produced by Massachusetts Advocates for Children, including Helping Traumatized Children Learn, and Creating and Advocating for Trauma-Sensitive Schools, as well as the Compassionate Schools work carried out by the state of Washington are the foundation of this curriculum.
• Curricula, assessment tools, and models for implementing a trauma-informed approach for schools are provided.
• The South-Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center trained state and regional educators to become facilitators of the Trauma Sensitive Schools curriculum and provides ongoing coaching.
• Continued opportunities for training on this curriculum will be offered as demand allows. For more information, contact: southsouthwest@mhttcnetwork.org
• This practice is specifically designed to educate about trauma-informed care.
  Curriculum / program for implementing a school-wide framework.
• Length of time varies for school wide implementation.

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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) 2.0

• Online training course for mental health professionals learning Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
• Developed in close collaboration with the TF-CBT developers and incorporates all the most recent developments in the model.
• Comprised of 11 learning modules, each with a pre- and post-test, that cover the foundations of TF-CBT and each of the treatment components.
• Each module has a concise explanation of the treatment component, video demonstrations of treatment procedures and techniques, and clinical materials and resources.
• Self-paced course with each module taking approximately one hour.
• All 11 modules and the final evaluation must be completed in order to access the certificate of completion.
  Initially the course must be completed sequentially; however, once a learner completes the course, s/he will continue to have access for the lifetime of the course.
• To find a TF-CBT therapist, search this national database: https://tfcbt.org/members/.

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Triple P Positive Parenting Program

• An approach to parenting that gives parents tools and strategies to raise their child in an environment that is safe, loving and predictable.
• Gives parents the confidence and skills to build good relationships with their child or teenager, set boundaries and rules, and follow up with consequences that are not harmful.
• Triple P Online covers all of Triple P’s positive parenting strategies for parents of toddlers to tweens (0-12 years) in eight modules.
• Teen Triple P Online is for parents of pre-teens and teens (10-16 years) and covers all of Teen Triple P’s strategies in six modules.
• Each module usually takes between 30-60 minutes, and includes a fun mix of videos, worksheets, tips and activities.
• Can also sign up for podcasts, emails and text message reminders.
• On-line training for parents.

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Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) and Trauma-Informed Classrooms Training

• An attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children.
• Offers practical tools for parents, caregivers, teachers, or anyone who works with children, to see the “whole child” in their care and help that child reach their highest potential.
• Uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors.
• While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.
• TBRI® 101 is offered as an on-line self-paced learning option
• This training is specifically designed to educate about trauma-informed care.
• 8-hr. introductory training

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University of Maryland Behavioral Health Online Training

• Webinar modules that provide a range of strategies, resources, and tools for behavioral health clinicians, educators, and student support staff.
  The modules focus on supporting student social, emotional, behavioral, and academic progress through a community-partnered approach to school behavioral health.
• CEs and CEUs available for some of the trainings.
• Length of online trainings varies.

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What Works Clearinghouse

• The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was established in 2002 as part of an initiative of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education.
• The mission of the WWC is to be a central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education.
• It is an important part of IES's strategy to use rigorous and relevant research, evaluation, and statistics to improve our nation's education system.
• The work of the WWC is done under contract to the U.S. Department of Education (via the National Center of Education Evaluation at IES) by several firms with expertise in education, research methodology, and dissemination.
• The WWC developed an infographic that describes how the practice guides can help teachers.

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YAM

The YAM program includes education on the following themes:

• Awareness about mental health
• Self-help - advice
• Stress and crisis
• Depression and suicidal thoughts
• Helping a troubled friend
• Getting advice: who to contact

The YAM program is structured as 5 1-hour sessions, delivered over 3 to 5 weeks, and includes the following components:

• Psychoeducation about mental health, stress, depression, and help-seeking
• Dilemma cards activity to focus on problem solving
• Role plays
• Informational booklets with additional health and mental health resources

• Posters for display in the classroom that visually reinforce concepts

YAM facilitators must be certified; UTSW CDRC provides trainings.

Facilitator Training: In-person training over 4.5 consecutive days

• Consultation: Ongoing technical assistance and quality assurance
• Progress Monitoring
• UTSW CDRC is one of the few organizations currently offering YAM certification in the United States, in partnership with Mental Health in Mind International AB.

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Youth Recovery Communities – YRC

• Focuses on adolescents that have a substance use disorder and/or those who are seeking sober alternative youth activities.
  Services include the individual’s families, supportive allies and the community as a whole to provide a substance free environment to support the youth’s and their families’ efforts in rebuilding their lives.
• Services are located within each community center that have established linkages with community-based and recovery support organizations.
• Texas model utilizes a Peer Recovery Leader workforce.           

Can only be delivered by a qualified substance use prevention specialist.

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Youth Thrive

• Puts research knowledge on adolescent brain health into action by shifting attention away from a primary focus on risk reduction toward one that builds those Protective and Promotive Factors associated with risk reduction and promotion of youth well-being.
• Identifies key characteristics and conditions associated with youth well-being, such as: Youth Resilience, Social Connections, Knowledge of Adolescent Development, Concrete Support in Times of Need, and Cognitive and Social-Emotional Competence.  Includes practices that are implemented in the classroom.
• Length of time varies for school wide implementation. Initial training is 3-4 days.

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Youth.Gov Prevention 

• U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs.                        
• Includes:
  • youth facts,
  • funding information, and
  • tools to help you assess community assets, and generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs, and keep up-to-date on the latest youth-related news.
• Website with programs, resources; length of time varies.

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