Program Development

This webpage offers strategies, tools, and templates that school staff can use to apply classroom management approaches to improve school connectedness in their face-to-face, virtual, or blended learning modes. Promising practices and specific classroom management approaches and skills to increase connectedness are provided. These approaches and skills include:   Teacher caring and ...

The DEA Red Ribbon Patch Program is designed to provide Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts the opportunity to earn a patch from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by engaging in anti-drug activities in celebration of Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon Week, which is celebrated annually on October 23-31, is the ...

This webpage links to resources that provide information on housing issues related to child welfare and programs to assist families experiencing housing instability. Resources on caregiver housing insecurity are provided in addition to resources on homelessness and housing insecurity for youth who are aging out of the foster care system. ...

In this podcast series, presenters explore the dynamics that rural YouthBuild programs experience during program planning, implementation, and program sustainability efforts. The following four episodes are now available:   Episode 1: Strategic Planning and Program Implementation  Episode 2: Program Design and Participant Services  Episode 3: Service Delivery and Staffing  Episode 4: Registered Apprenticeship  Learn more.   ...

This article (PDF, 131 pages) reviews the literature on non-financial interventions for improving college access and success ranging from discreet and narrowly defined interventions to comprehensive and multifaceted programs and systemic-level solutions. Learn more. 

This guide (PDF, 38 pages) identifies a broad variety of federal funding streams that providers, districts, summer and afterschool intermediaries, municipal government leaders, and state government leaders can tap to support equitable access to high-quality programs. Learn more. 

The recently enacted Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (PDF, 10 pages) includes key new provisions that support efforts to improve safety and security in schools. The new law provides additional dedicated funding to school safety grant programs, officially codifies SchoolSafety.gov, and expands access to mental health support services for schools and ...

This community-based, trauma-informed, gender-responsive advocacy intervention is designed for girls 11 to 17 years old who are at risk for or already involved in the juvenile justice system. The program is rated Promising in the Crime Solutions database. Intervention group girls were less likely to engage in physical fights and ...

This toolkit (PDF, 14 pages) is intended to help community members plan their own campaign to raise awareness of 2022 National Foster Care Month in May. It offers a suggested timeline for campaign activities, key facts and statistics to include in campaign messaging, sample social media posts for easy sharing, ...