Prevention Resources

Teens & Youth

Adults as Allies
This informative workbook from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s website is for adults who are, or who want to become, allies of young people creating community change. The assumption is that adults can benefit from information and intended to increase inter-generational interaction and mutual support in the common cause of creating change. Highlights in this workbook include: “What are the benefits of youth participation?” “Identifying potential youth leaders,” “The role of adults in developing youth leaders,” “Assessing adults as allies,” and “Setting guidelines for intergenerational groups.”

Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action
Best Practices is the first of its kind to look at the effectiveness of specific violence prevention practices in four key areas: parents and families; home visiting; social and conflict resolution skills; and mentoring.
En Español

Developmental Assets
Developed by the Search Institute. Includes lists for adolescents, middle childhood (grades 4-6) early childhood (ages 0-5), and age specific lists. Elementos fundamentales del desarrollo.

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth-serving Organizations: Getting Started on Policies and Procedures
This report is designed for representatives of youth-serving organizations who are interested in adopting strategies to prevent child sexual abuse. The report covers six key components (1) screening and selecing employees and volunteers; (2) guidelines on interactions between individuals; (3) monitoring behavior; (4) ensuring safe environments; (5) responding to inappropriate behavior, breaches in policy, and allegations and suspicions of child sexual abuse; and (6) training about child sexual abuse prevention.

Promoting Prevention, Targetting Teens: An Emerging Agenda to Reduce Domestic Violence
The FVPF undertook an unprecedented yearlong investigation to gather and synthesize the best knowledge about domestic violence, its causes and consequences, and to define the strategies that offer the greatest promise to keep women and children safe. This report is the result of that project. This report identifies numerous promising practices and approaches, as well as gaps in research and knowledge.

Youth Participation Guide
The Youth Participation Guide seeks to increase the level of meaningful youth participation in reproductive health (RH) and HIV/AIDS programming at an institutional and programmatic level.

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Advocates for Youth
Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world. Website includes many resources and lesson plans covering comprehensive sexuality education, cultural competency, GLBTQ issues, youth of color, among others. Specific sections and information for Professionals, Press & Policy Makers, Youth, and Parents.

Ask Dr. Jami
Dr. Jami's website promotes resiliency for teens through bibliotherapy. Her website includes recommended web resources, nonfiction books, and fiction books to help teens build resiliency.

Break the Cycle
Information about dating and domestic violence and healthy relationships.

CDC: Healthy Youth
CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) seeks to prevent the most serious health risk behaviors among children, adolescents and young adults.

Choose Respect
Choose Respect teaches young teens and the caring adults in their lives about dating abuse prevention and healthy relationships. Includes a game, factsheet and brochures, community kit, teacher's guide, video of true life stories, PSAs, posters and ads, and links.

Committee for Children
Committee for Children, a nonprofit organization, is an international leader in social, emotional, and academic learning. Our award-winning programs and prevention curricula focus on the topics of youth violence, bullying, child abuse, personal safety, and emergent literacy.

Empower Program
The Empower Program is a world leader in violence prevention and innovative approaches to dealing with violence. Information and links to their award winning Owning Up curricula and other work with both boys and girls to eliminate violence. Central to the development and history of The Empower Program was awareness that boys and girls must be a part of the strategy and approach to stop violence.

National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
Lots of resources on topics such as coalition building, evaluation, needs assessment, social marketing. Primarily focuses on substance abuse prevention. However, these strategies for preventing substance abuse are, in many cases, parallel with those for violence prevention.

National Resource Center for Youth Services
Enhancing the quality of life of our nation's youth and their families by improving the effectiveness of human services.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other Federal partners, the Resource Center provides current information developed by Federal agencies or with Federal support pertaining to youth violence. A gateway for professionals, parents, youth and other interested individuals, the Resource Center offers the latest tools to facilitate discussion with children, to resolve conflicts nonviolently, to stop bullying, to prevent teen suicide, and to end violence committed by and against young people. Resources include fact sheets, best practices documents, funding and conference announcements, statistics, research bulletins, surveillance reports, and profiles of promising programs.

Search Institute
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates and communicates new knowledge, and brings together community, state, and national leaders.

See It and Stop It!
There's a difference between a good relationship and a bad one. Speak up against abuse.

Teen Relationship Website
The Teen Relationships Website talks about respect and abuse in relationships, provides links, and a chat room for teens.

TeensHealth
Addresses a wide range of teen health concerns including body issues, sexual health, drugs and alcohol, bullying and violence, and personal safety. En Español.

Teenwire
teenwire.com is an award-winning sexual health Web site for teens. We are committed to giving you the facts about sex so that you can use this information to make your own responsible choices. We provide honest and nonjudgmental information about sexuality in language you can understand with the hope that you will use this knowledge to reduce your risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Site includes information for parents and professionals, such as information on parenting and classroom activities for educators.

WomensLaw.org for Teens
General and legal information and resources on teen dating violence.