Parenting

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) 2021 dataset provides the most recent data on ongoing and emerging health behaviors and experiences among high school students enrolled in public and private schools across the United States. These data are the first YRBS data collected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

This guide (PDF, 85 pages) highlights the innovative ways that communities around the country are doing purposeful prevention work to help children and families thrive. This guide highlights the theme, "Doing Things Differently: Moving from the Challenge to the Change.” The guide also contains Protective Factors Conversation Guides to help ...

This webpage presents information on protective factors and child, youth, parent, and caregiver well-being. It offers resources about marriage, fatherhood, parenting, and building the capacity of programs and systems to promote well-being. Learn more. 

This webpage provides ideas for easy, free or low-cost ways for dads to spend quality time with their kids. The webpage contains a filter to search activities appropriate for various age groups. Learn more.  

This webpage provides resources to help reconnect adopted children with their cultural roots in meaningful ways. Learn more.  

This webpage provides information and resources about co-regulation for various age ranges. The page contains a video about co-regulation for adults who work, coach, and care for youth. Additional resources descriptions of OPRE co-regulation research and evaluation projects are also provided. Learn more.  ...

The second season of the Awkward Conversations podcast series features 20 video podcast episodes that cover a variety of subjects to help parents empower their kids with the tools needed to stay safe, drug free, and make healthy decisions. Topics include signs of drug use in teens, fake pills, preventing ...

The goals of the Activate Needs Assessment Survey are to: Assess the need for research-based resources related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health and prioritize those needs Assess preferences for the dissemination of research related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health Explore researchers' contributions to research-based resources Learn more. ...

This toolkit was created to (1) raise parents’ and caregivers’ awareness about the importance of discussing sexual health topics with their youth, (2) give them some tips to guide these conversations, and (3) provide additional resources for those who want more information. The toolkit is also intended to help organizations ...