Addressing youth mental health through school-based services
One in five US children has a mental health condition. Schools may play a critical role in providing evidence-based interventions. We suggest six actions for states to consider.
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ENGAGE: evidence-based strategies to prevent youth substance use
This guide offers strategies from the best available evidence to assist in planning to prevent or delay substance use initiation, decrease substance use, and encourage substance use cessation.
Mental health in schools
Student mental health is inseparable from learning. The New York State Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health System briefs provide practical building blocks that school districts can use to establish, strengthen, and sustain comprehensive school-based mental health support.
Many Ways of Being: An inclusive, youth-centered curriculum focused on gender equity, healthy relationships, and safer sex practices
Many Ways of Being (MWB) is a sex education program for all young people, ages 15 to 19, aiming to promote healthy, consensual, and violence-free relationships among youth while reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unplanned pregnancy.
Comprehensive sexual education as a standardized core school subject
This brief aims to recommend a mandatory nationwide CSE program that allows students to make informed decisions about their experiences through puberty and beyond, providing stability and security in their health and wellbeing.
Strengthening school violence prevention: expanding intervention options and supporting K-12 school efforts in behavioral threat assessment and management
In this report, the authors draw on published literature and extensive interviews with education and public safety practitioners to build an inventory of the many intervention options that are valuable for schools in the management phase of behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM).
Empty Plates, Empty Seats: Food Insecurity and Student Absence in the US and Across the Globe
Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant rise in student absenteeism in the US and elsewhere. Meanwhile, food insecurity remains a persistent issue across the globe, including in the US.
HECAT Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool
The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) contains process guidance, appraisal tools, and resources for carrying out a clear, complete, and consistent examination of commercially packaged or locally developed school-based health education curricula.
Inclusive learning: a synthesis of 20+ years of research on the education and wellbeing impacts of inclusive curriculum, instruction, and school books
Over 20 years, GLSEN’s research has demonstrated that LGBTQI+ inclusive instruction promotes a more positive school climate, where LGBTQI+ youth are more likely to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally, and experience less severe anti-LGBTQI+ harassment and bullying.
The CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health approach to sexual health education in schools: 3 decades in review
School health education, including sexual health education, plays a crucial role in shaping adolescents’ protective health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes.