TOPIC: Prevention for Students "At Risk"

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Center Policy Report

• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools

Practice Notes

• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Response to Intervention

Articles

• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. Childhood Education, 78(5), 261-268
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2000). Moving Prevention From the Fringes into the Fabric of School Improvement. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 11(1), 7-36.
• H.S. Adelman,. & Taylor, L. (1999). A School-wide Component to Address Barriers to Learning. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 15(4) 277-302.
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1999). Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental . Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15 (4), 255-276.

Continuing Education Module

• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling

Featured Newsletter Articles

• Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support. (Fall, '97)
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern. (Spring, '98)
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers. (Fall, '99)
• Opening the Classroom Door. (Spring, '01)
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative
• Substance Abuse Prevention: Toward Comprehensive, Multifaceted Approaches. (Summer, '00)
• Re-engaging Students in Learning at School. (Winter, '02)

Guides to Practice

• What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families

Introductory Packets

• Dropout Prevention
• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools
• Early Development and Learning from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support
• Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Support

Quick Find

• Transition Programs/Grade Articulation/Welcome
• Youth Development

Quick Training Aid

• Bullying Prevention
• Suicide Prevention
• Violence Prevention

Training Tutorial

• Crisis Assistance and Prevention: Reducing Barriers to Learning

Technical Assistance Samplers

• Protective Factors (Resiliency)
• School Interventions to Prevent Youth Suicide

Net Exchange

• Intervention Approaches (How to do it)
• Intervention Issues

In School

• Critical Issue: Linking At-Risk Students and Schools to Integrated Services
• Critical Issue: Providing Effective Schooling for Students at Risk
• Drug Abuse Prevention: School-based Strategies That Work
• The Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Programs for the Prevention of Violent and Aggressive Behavior. (2007) R. Hann, et al., MMWR, August 10, 2007.
• Federal Activities Addressing Violence in Schools
• Leveraging Out-of-School Time Programs for At-risk Students
• A National Portrait of Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades (2007). M Romero & L. Young-Sun. National Center for Children in Poverty.
• The Prevention of Mental Disorders in School-Aged Children: Current State of the Field
• School-Based HIV-Prevention Education
• Strengthening School Attendance Policies/Practices to Address Educational Neglect and Truancy
• Third Generation School- Linked Services for At Risk Children
• Tool kit for creating your own truancy reduction program
• Tools for Promoting Educational Success and Reducing Delinquency
• Truancy Prevention: Empowering Students, Schools and Communities
• Vision of Protective Schools: Linking Drug Abuse Prevention with Student Success

Community

• Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Practical Guide
• America's Children Still at Risk
• Building better programs for disconnected youth
• Children in Vulnerable Families: Facts and Figures
• Caring for Every Child's Mental Health: Communities Together Campaign
• "Community Interventions and Effective Prevention" (2003)
• "Grouping High-Risk Youth for Prevention May Harm More Than Help"
• Guide to Community Prevention Services
• Preventing Youth Hate Crime
• Public Health Approach to the Violence Epidemic in the United States
• Youth Violence Prevention in Latino Communities: A Resource Guide for MCH Professionals

General

• Alive at 25: reducing youth violence through monitoring and support
• Applying Effective Strategies to Prevent or Reduce Substance Abuse, Violence, and Disruptive Behavior Among Youth
• Critical Issue: Using Prevention Principles to Develop Comprehensive Services
• From At-Risk to Excellence: Principles for Practice
• Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services: Recommendations for Physicians and Other Health Professionals
• How do parents learn about adolescents experiences? Implications for parental knowledge and adolescent risky behavior
• Knowledge Path: Adolescent Violence Prevention
• Municipal Network for Disconnected Youth
• Powerful Pathways: Framing options and opportunities for vulnerable youth
• Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities
• Prevention 2000:Moving Effective Programs to Practice
• Primary Prevention of Child Abuse
• Prevention approaches for state mental health authorities
• Prevention Strategies that Work
• Preventive Interventions Under Managed Care: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
• Safe Passages Through Adolescence
• Teen Risk-Taking: Promising Prevention Programs and Approaches (PDF Document)
• Youth Suicide Prevention Programs: A Resource Guide

Research & Reports

• "2000 Report to Congress: Title V Community Prevention Grants Program" frameworks, funding, and tools to establish community based strategies that deter delinquency.
• Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: A Review of  Interventions And Programs
• The adult lives of at-risk students: the roles of attainment and engagement in high school (2006) National Center for Education Statistics.
• "Closing the Achievement Gap: Lagging Achievement of Disadvantaged Students Remains a Critical Problem"
• The Development of Coping (2007) E. Skinner & M. Zimmer-Gembeck, Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 119-144.
• Education Commission of the States Issue Briefs: At Risk Youth
• Finding Alternatives to Failure: Can States End Social Promotion and Reduce Retention Rates?
• Giving everyone the health of the educated: an examination of whether social change would save more lives than medical advances
• "Leave No Youth Behind: Opportunities for Congress to Reach Disconnected Youth" (2003) J. Levin Epstein and M. Greenberg, Center for Law and Social Policy
• Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity - A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• Prevention violence and related health-risking social behaviors in adolescents (2004) L. Chan, et al., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• "Providing Comprehensive, Integrated social services to vulnerable children and families: are there legal barriers at the federal level to moving forward?" (2004) R. Huston, Center for Law and Social Policy
• Sociodemographic Risk and Child Well-Being
• State Fact Sheets on Child Welfare Funding
• Teen Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait (PDF Document)
• Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth - 2002
• What Keeps Children in Foster Care from Succeeding in School?

• Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project
• Advocates for Youth
• Bureau for At-Risk Youth
• Center for Child and Adolescent Violence Prevention
• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center for Prevention Research and Development
• Center for the Prevention of School Violence
• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
• Child Abuse Prevention Network
• Child Trends, Inc.
• Children's Institute
• Connect for Kids: Guidance for Grownups
• Families and Schools Together (FAST)
• Institute for Prevention Research
• Institute for the Study of Students At Risk
• National Dropout Prevention Network
• National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students
• The National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention, Inc.
• Prevention First
• The Prevention Researcher
• Society for Prevention Research
• Strengthening Families Program (SEP)

• Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today. By Dryfoos, J.G. and Barkin, C. 2006. Oxford University Press.
• Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment (issues in Children's and Families' Lives.  Gullotta, T. and Adams, G. (Eds.) (2005). Guiford Press.
• Helping Adolescents at Risk Prevention of Multiple Problem Behaviors.  Biglan, A., Brennan, P., Foster, S., & Holder, H. (2005). Guiford Press.
• "School-based Programs and Policies to Discourage Student High-Risk Behaviors and Promote Health and Wellness."  Burke, R.W., Axelrod J., Weist M., Paternite, C. (2006).  The State Education Standard, 7 (1). National Association of State Boards, Alexandria, VA.
• Strengths-Based Counseling With At-Risk Youth Ungar,M. (2006). Corwin Press. 144pp.
• Youth at Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents.  American Counseling Association (2005).Prentice Hall. 480pp.

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