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Download our Teen Tools fact sheets (PDF) about how to recognize a crime, what emotions to expect, and how to receive or give help:
Information on additional topics can be found in
our GET HELP Series
bulletins.
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Enhancing the Response to Teen Victims of Crime
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The Teen Victim
Initiative is excited to announce the launch of our powerful new Web training
series on helping teen victims of crime. Web trainings will cover a wide range
of topics including:
 Teen-friendly Victim
Outreach
Supporting Teens Living with Domestic Violence
Engaging
Marginalized Youth
School-based Victim Outreach and
Services
Participants will be able to view media presentations (such
as PowerPoint presentations or other
documents and videos) on-line while listening to
presenters via conference call. Trainings will be recorded for future access
on-line or on disks. Participants will also have the opportunity to submit
comments and questions in live time, break out into small groups, and have an
interactive role during each session!
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Our goal is to help victim assistance
providers, law enforcement personnel, and
other allied professionals provide informed,
culturally competent, and developmentally appropriate responses to teen victims
and their
families
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National and local
experts will present free of
charge
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Future sessions will be advertised
here as they are scheduled. All sessions are recorded. Make sure to check back
here after each session to download the recording and course
materials!
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Registration is free, but spots are
limited to 100
participants. To register, visit
ncvc.webex.com
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For registered participants, theWebEx Guide for Attendees instructs
on how to log-in to the scheduled training and use all of the amazing WebEx
features!
(Click below to access the pdf
Guide)
To view a copy of the Privacy
Certificate for this project, please click
here
This Web site is funded
in part through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice
Programs,U.S. Department of Justice. Neither
the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of
its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse,
this Web site (including, without limitation, its content, technical
infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools
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Links to Evidence-based Best Practices and Programs
for Community Youth Development
Community Guide to
Helping America's Youth
The Community Guide to Helping America's Youth
helps caring adults connect with the youth in their families, schools and
communities. It encourages Americans to make an even bigger difference by
forming partnerships to implement programs that have been proven to help youth.
Community Guide to Helping America's Youth is an online tool that helps
communities form effective partnerships, assess community resources, and
identify proven programs that support positive youth development.
This web-based guide is available at
http://guide.helpingamericasyouth.gov
- The Community Guide includes
examples of how individuals can "Get Connected" with youth in families,
schools and communities.
- The Community Guide includes a
Community Assessment Guide that offers communities a step-by-step approach for
learning more about their community, including where youth-related problems
occur, which youth and families are most affected by those problems, and what
local resources and assets the community can use to address those problems.
- The Community Guide includes a
Community Resource Inventory with which localities can use to identify and
track partners and programs that are already at work in their community.
- The Community Guide includes a
Program Tool that provides information about promising and proven effective
interventions to prevent adolescent risky behaviors and promote positive youth
development.
- The Community Guide to Helping
America's Youth Reflects the Most Up-to-Date Research on Youth Development and
Effective Programs. A coalition of experts from the U.S. Departments of Health
and Human Services, Justice, Education, Agriculture, Labor, Commerce, Housing
and Urban Development; the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and the
Corporation for National and Community Service developed the
guide.
Model Programs Guide (MPG)
The MPG is an
easy-to-use informational resource tool that offers a database of scientifically
proven programs to address a variety of youth problems, including the following:
delinquency; violence; youth gang involvement; alcohol, tobacco, and drug use;
academic difficulties; family functioning; trauma exposure; sexual
activity/exploitation; and mental health issues. Sponsor Agency: U.S. Department
of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention. Online at:
http://www.dsgonline.com/mpg2.5/mpg_index.htm
National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and
Practices (NREPP)
The NREPP is a searchable online
registry of mental health and substance abuse interventions for youth and other
populations that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers. Sponsor
Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration. Online at:
http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/index.htm
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