* - Site has documents in language(s) other than English.
# - Organization offers technical assistance.
- The
Al-Anon/Al-Ateen Family Groups help families and friends of alcoholics recover from the effects of
living with the problem drinking of a relative or friend. Alateen is our recovery program for young people.
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American Academy of Pediatrics an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
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Arizona Prevention Resource Center serves Arizona as a statewide resource center, providing
accessible technical assistance on a variety of prevention and
health promotion issues through training, information
dissemination and program evaluation.
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- The Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior raises the awareness and implementation of positive, evidence-based practices and to build an enhanced and more accessible database to support those practices.
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- The Center
for Health and Health Care in Schools is a policy and program resource center
supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that focuses on supporting state-community
partnerships to establish comprehensive school-based health centers.
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Center for Mental Health in Schools approaches mental health and
psychosocial concerns from the broad perspective of addressing barriers
to learning and promoting healthy development. Its mission is to
improve outcomes for young people by enhancing policies, programs, and
practices relevant to mental health in schools.
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- Center for Minority Special Education helps faculty who are employed
by a Historically Black University or College (HBCU), a Tribal College or Other Minority Institution
(OMI) defined as serving a student population of twenty five percent (25%) minority or more.
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Center for School Mental Health provides leadership and
technical assistance to advance effective interdisciplinary school-based
mental health programs. It strives to support schools and community
collaboratives in the development of programs that are accessible,
family-centered, culturally sensitive, and responsive to local needs.
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- The Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence's research expands our knowledge of risk and protective factors in the prevention of youth violence, enhancing our ability to use developmental pathways both to target interventions and to increase their efficacy.
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Center for the Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk is
a research and development center, that "has launched an important
comprehensive school initiative designed to enhance the achievement,
academic environment, and quality of life for students, teachers,
and parents." Site includes descriptions of current research projects.
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Center for the Study & Prevention of Violence was founded in 1992 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to provide
informed assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly
adolescent violence. Since that time, our mission has expanded to encompass violence across the life
course.
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Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse aims to 1) inform Americans of the economic and social costs of substance
abuse and its impact on their lives; 2)ssess what works in prevention, treatment, and law
enforcement; 3) encourage every individual and institution to take responsibility to
combat substance abuse and addiction; 4) provide those on the front lines with the tools they need to
succeed; and 5)remove the stigma of abuse and replace shame and despair with
hope.
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- The Center on Positive Behavioral
Interventions & Supports "has been established by the Office of Special
Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance
for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices."
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Child Welfare Information Gateway is a national resource for professionals seeking information
on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect and
related child welfare issues.
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Children of Alcoholics Foundation is a
national non-profit that provides a
range of educational materials
and services to help
professionals, children and adults
break the intergenerational cycle
of parental substance abuse.
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Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development and Learning
is a broad-based, policy-oriented coalition of organizations who have a stake in
addressing barriers to development, learning, and teaching, as well as
a concern for promoting healthy development.
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- The Consortium To Prevent School Violence (CPSV) is committed to reducing school violence nationally and is focused on advocacy that promotes effective implementation of positive school violence prevention practices, and fostering technical assistance, information dissemination, and professional development based on high-quality scientific research. CPSV promotes open access where researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders in schools and surrounding communities are an integral part of the Consortium’s work. The Consortium is primarily a volunteer effort.
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- IDEA
Partnership operates to increase the capacity of policymakers to act as
informed change agents who are focused on improving educational outcomes
for students with disabilities.
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Institute for the Study of Students at Risk "serves as a center for
research and policy analysis on broad-based issues and concerns involving
children, youth, and their families at risk." Site includes brief
descriptions of projects and publications.
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Institute on Violence & Destructive Behavior empowers schools and social service agencies to address violence and
destructive behavior, at the point of school entry and beyond, in order to
ensure safety and to facilitate the academic achievement and healthy social
development of children and youth.
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Keep Schools Safe Project provides up-to-date information on successful programs and ideas in
order to help communities work toward safer schools and devise the most
appropriate response to reducing youth violence.
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Kids Peace National Center regularly serves more
than 2,000 children with a comprehensive continuum of kids' mental health treatment
programs. This private, not-for-profit organization also acts as a national liaison for
intervention services, and educates kids, parents and professionals around the globe
in how to avert crisis.
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- Multisystemic Services website provides information about MST, a unique and exciting
treatment methodology proven to have positive effects on serious,
violent, and chronic juvenile offenders.
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- The National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children "serves as a clearinghouse of information... provides technical
assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution,
and treatment of cases... and offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service
professionals."
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National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information is the information service of
the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. NCADI is the Nation's one-stop resource for the most current and
comprehensive information about substance abuse prevention and treatment.
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- The
Policy Leadership Cadre for Mental Health in Schools seeks to expand,
link, and build the capacity of the pool of persons who provide policy
leadership for MH in schools at national, state, regional, and local levels.
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Prevent Child Abuse America is dedicated to making the health and well-being of children a top priority
for everyone. Its programs, research, media campaigns, and activities at the state and local levels
have provided leadership to child abuse prevention efforts nationwide.
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Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network operates America's only national hotline for survivors of sexual assault.
The hotline offers free,confidential counseling and support 24 hours a day, from anywhere in the country.
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Psychology Resources On-Line is "a directory of information" available on the web
"for school psychologists, school counselors, teachers, parents, and
other professionals."
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- The
Suicide Information and Education Center is a
special library and resource centre providing information on
suicide and suicidal behaviour. The Suicide Prevention Training Programs (SPTP) provides
caregiver training in suicide intervention, awareness,
bereavement, crisis management and related topics.
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Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network is dedicated to the creation of
an effective national suicide prevention strategy. SPAN links the energy
of those bereaved by suicide with the expertise of leaders in science,
business, government and public service to achieve the goal of significantly
reducing the national rate of suicide by the year 2010.
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- The Suicide Prevention Resource Center
"provides technical assistance, training, and informational materials to strengthen suicide prevention
networks and advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention..." The center seeks to "build
capacity for states and communities to implement and evaluate suicide prevention programs."
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Virginia Youth Violence Project of The University of Virginia, Curry School of Education,
seeks to "identify effective methods and policies for youth violence prevention,
especially in school settings" by conducting and disemminating research on "the
understanding and reduction of violent behavior."
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