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Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action [pdf 60K]. This sourcebook looks at the effectiveness of violence prevention practices in four key areas: parents and families; home visiting; social and conflict resolution skills; and mentoring. The sourcebook documents the science behind each best practice and offers a comprehensive directory of resources for more information about programs that have used these practices.
Fact Sheet: Suicide in the United States [pdf 101K]. Provides general information about suicide in the United States.
Measuring Violence-related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools. This compendium provides research and prevention specialists with a set of tools to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence. The compendium includes more than 100 measures, mostly focused on individuals’ violence-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injuries and Violence. These guidelines were designed to help education agencies and schools promote safety and make schools safe places for students to learn.
CDC. Mental Health in the United States: Health Care and Well Being of Children with Chronic Emotional, Behavioral, or Developmental Problems—United States, 2001. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2005;54(39):985-989.
CDC. The Role of Public Health in Mental Health Promotion. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2005;54(34):841–842.
CDC. Mental Health in the United States: Prevalence of Diagnosis and Medication Treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder—United States, 2003. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2005;54(34):842–847.
CDC. Violence-Related Behaviors Among High School Students—United States, 1991–2003 [pdf 300K] Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2004;53(29):651–655.
Major Depressive Episode Among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States of America: 2004 to 2006. This report is based on combined data from the 2004 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). It reveals the devastating effect these major depressive disorders can have on adolescents. The survey reveals that adolescent females are twice as likely as adolescent males to suffer a major depressive episode.
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action. Published as an outcome of the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide, this Department of Health and Human Services document describes strategies for preventing suicide.
Preventing Violence and Related Health-Risking Social Behaviors in Adolescents. This NIH State-of-the-Science Consensus Statement outlines the current state of knowledge regarding adolescent violence and related health-risking social behavior and identifies directions for future research.
School Mental Health Services in the United States, 2002-2003. This study provides the first national survey of mental health services in a representative sample of the approximately 83,000 public elementary, middle, and high schools and their associated school districts in the United States.
Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide. This 1999 Call to Action introduces a blueprint for addressing suicide prevention through awareness, intervention, and methodology. It describes 15 broad recommendations, containing goal statements, broad objectives, and recommendations for implementation consistent with a public health approach to suicide prevention.
The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Final Report. This report articulates six goals for a transformed mental health system.
Use of Mental Health Services in the Past 12 Months by Children Aged 4-17 years: United States, 2005-2006. This report provides key findings from the mental health service questions in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).
Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General. This first Surgeon General's report on youth violence reviews research on where, when, and how much youth violence occurs, what causes it, and which of today's many preventive strategies are genuinely effective. The report includes scientifically-derived bases for action at all levels of society.
Children's Mental Health: An Overview and Key Considerations for Health System Stakeholders [pdf 3.5M]. This paper, released in 2005 from the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM), provides an overview and highlights of key policy considerations for promoting and improving the mental health of children and youth. It covers issues of finance, medication for children and adolescents, and systems, as well as current national initiatives and resources.
Developing Our Youth: Fulfilling a Promise, Investing in Iowa's Future [pdf 1.2M]. This document is intended for policy makers and leaders at the state, regional, and local levels. It outlines frameworks for guiding development and implementation of learning supports, infrastructure functions and processes, and policy support and alignment.
Funding for Children's Mental Health Services: Making the Most of MEDICAID [pdf 200K]. This issue brief from the National Governors Association describes a number of avenues available to states to expand mental health coverage to Medicaid-eligible children.
Health, Mental Health, and Safety Guidelines for Schools. This compendium of guidelines is designed for those who influence the health, mental health and safety of students and school staff while they are in school, on school grounds, on their way to or from school, or involved in school-sponsored activities. They draw upon school health and safety guidelines and can assist in developing health and safety objectives.
Matrix of Programs as Identified by Various Federal and Private Agencies. This document identifies various federal and private agencies and researchers who have rated the effectiveness of prevention programs designed to reduce or eliminate behaviors such as delinquency, aggression, violence, substance use, and school behavioral problems. The document describes the set of criteria that has been identified for program inclusion by each agency and also describes the focus of each work. The Matrix is a table listing approximately 300 programs that have been rated as effective.
Mental Health in Schools: Guidelines, Models, Resources, & Policy Considerations [pdf 420K]. Designed by the University of California at Los Angeles Center for Mental Health in Schools, this resource addresses National policy and practice concerns about what is and is not included, as well as what could be included, in the sphere of mental health in schools.
School Mental Health Services: Legislator Policy Brief [pdf 416K]. This policy brief provides state policymakers with key background information about school mental health and identifies proven and cost–effective prevention strategies for states.
Suicide and Suicide Attempts in Adolescents. Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for adolescents 15 to 19 years old. This report updates the American Academy of Pediatrics statement on screening for depression and suicidal ideation and behavior.
What Students Say about Mental Health [pdf 715K]. This document contains youth perspectives on what schools can do to better address the mental health needs of all students with recommendations for educators and others to consider when developing school mental health programs.
Brener ND, Krug EG, Simon TR. Trends in suicide ideation and suicidal behavior among high school students in the United States, 1991–1997. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 2000;30:304–312.
Brener ND, Simon TR, Anderson M, Barrios LC, Small ML. Effect of the incident at Columbine on students’ violence- and suicide-related behaviors. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002;22(3):146–150.
Brener ND, Simon TR, Krug EG, Lowry R. Recent trends in violence-related behaviors among high school students in the United States*. JAMA 1999;282(5):440–446.
Brener ND, Weist M, Adelman H, Taylor L, Vernon-Smiley M. Mental health and social services: results from the School Health Policies and Programs Study 2006. Journal of School Health 2007;77(8):486–99.
Coker TR, Elliott MN, Kataoka S, Schwebel DC, Mrug S, Grunbaum J, Cuccaro P, Peskin MF, Schuster MA. Racial/ethnic disparities in the mental health care utilization of fifth grade children*. Academic Pediatrics 2009; 9:89-96.
Everett Jones S, Lollar DJ. Relationship between physical disabilities or long-term health problems and health risk behaviors or conditions among US high school students. Journal of School Health 2008;78(5):252–7.
Ferdon CD, Hertz MF, editors. Electronic media, violence, and adolescents: an emerging public health problem. Journal of Adolescent Health 2007;41:S1–5.
Hertz MF, David-Ferdon C. Electronic media and youth violence: a CDC issue brief for educators and caregivers. Atlanta: CDC; 2008.
Swahn MH, Simon TR, Hertz M, Arias I, Bossarte RM, Ross J, et al. Linking dating violence, peer violence, and suicidal behaviors among high-risk youth. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2008;34(1):30–8.
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