TOPIC: Prevention for Students "At Risk"

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Books and Chapters
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Addressing Trauma and Other Barriers to Learning and Teaching: Developing a Comprehensive System of Intervention
• Improving School Improvement
• Mapping a School's Resources to Improve Their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems
• New Directions for Student Support: Some Fundamentals
• Placing Prevention into the Context of School Improvement
• Revisiting Learning & Behavior Problems: Moving Schools Forward
• School-Wide Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Student Engagement and Disengagement: An Intrinsic Motivation Perspective and a Mental Health Concer

Center Policy Reports & Briefs, Notes, Alerts
• Prevention and Schools
• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools

Practice & Policy Notes
• About School Shootings
• Dropout Prevention: Do Districts Pursue Best Practice Recommendations?
• Response to Intervention
• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Supports for Students Deemed At-Risk
• Youth Gangs and Schools

Articles
• Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning.
• Creating school and community partnerships for substance abuse prevention programs
• Moving Prevention From the Fringes into the Fabric of School Improvement.
• Native American students going to and staying in postsecondary education: An intervention perspective.
• Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences.
• School Dropout Prevention: A Public Health Role for Primary Health Care Providers
• A School-wide Component to Address Barriers to Learning.
• Social-emotional well-being of students with disabilities: The importance of student support staff

Continuing Education Module
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students and Families: Four Units for Continuing Education
• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling
• Personalizing Learning and Addressing Barriers to Learning: Two Continuing Education Units

Quarterly ejournal/newsletter
• Countering LD and ADHD False Positive Diagnoses: Another Pandemic Challenge
• Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers
• Opening the Classroom Door
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative
• Substance Abuse Prevention: Toward Comprehensive, Multifaceted Approaches
• Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• Prevention and Schools

Guides to Practice and Practice Notes
• Addressing Neighborhood Problems that Affect the School
• About Peer Contagion Effects
• Common Behavior Problems at School: A Natural Opportunity for Social and Emotional Learning
• Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment
• Countering the Over-pathologizing of Students' Feelings & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools
• Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care
• Disengaged Students
• Dropout Prevention
• Engaging and Re-engaging Families When a Student is Not Doing Well
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• Helping and Socialization
• Improving Working Relationships Inside the Classroom
• Interviewing and Monitoring Tools
• Prereferral Interventions
• Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Problems at School
• RTI and Classroom & Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use
• What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families

Information Resources
• About Addressing Poverty: What’s a School's Role?
• About Programs for After School Hours and Non-school Days 
• Barriers to Prevention in Schools: A Look at What’s Happening
• Barriers to Prevention in Schools: Prevention Policy Implementation Barriers
• Dropouts and the 9th Grade Bulge
• Gang Affiliation: Personal Academic and Mental Health Impact
• Eating Disorders Among Student Athletes
• Enhancing Classroom Teachers? Capacity to Successfully Engage All Students in Learning: It?s the Foundation of Learning Supports
• Preventing Student Problems: What are the Barriers?
• Preventing Teen Dating Violence
• Prevention and Schools
• Sex Education and Social-Emotional Development

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

Related Quick Finds
• 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
• The Academic Motivation of At-Risk Students in a Counseling Prevention Program
• Alternatives to suspension
• A National Portrait of Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades
• Effects of small-group tutoring with and without validated classroom instruction on at-risk students' math problem solving: Are two tiers of prevention better than one?
• Federal Activities Addressing Violence in Schools
• In School Suspension: a learning tool
• Many Challenges Arise in Educating Students Who Change Schools Frequently
• The Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Programs for the Prevention of Violent and Aggressive Behavior
• Practices and settings which promote a psychological sense of community among young people who experience social marginalization
• The Prevention of Mental Disorders in School-Aged Children: Current State of the Field
• Prevention Strategies for At-Risk Students and Students with EBD in Urban Elementary Schools
• Realizing the Promise of the Whole School Approach to Children's Mental Health
• Reconnecting Disconnected Youth: Examining the Development of Productive Engagement
• The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth
• School-based depression and anxiety prevention programs for young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Strengthening School Attendance Policies/Practices to Address Educational Neglect and Truancy
• Tool kit for creating your own truancy reduction program

Community
• Caring for Every Child's Mental Health: Communities Together Campaign
• Moving Upstream to Improve Children's Mental Health Through Community and Policy Change.
• Preventing Youth Hate Crime
• Protecting High-Risk Youth in High-Risk Contexts: Neighborhoods, Parenting, and Victimization

General
• Adolescents’ Daily Worries and Risky Behaviors: The Buffering Role of Support Seeking
• Advancing the Self Sufficiency and Well Being of At Risk Youth: A Conceptual Framework
• Building Better Programs for Disconnected Youth
• Children’s Mental Health: Understanding an Ongoing Public Health Concern
• A Comprehensive technical package for the prevention of youth violence and associated risk behaviors
• Disconnected Youth: A Look at 16- to 24-Year Olds Who Are Not Working or In School
• Framework for Advancing the Well Being and Self Sufficiency of At Risk Youth
• Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services: Recommendations for Physicians and Other Health Professionals
• Home & School Safety Education for Kids
• Media Awareness: A School Guide
• Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities
• Primary Prevention of Child Abuse
• Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents: Predictors and Moderators of Acute Effects
• A Public Health Approach to School Safety & Violence Prevention
• Responding to the Current Youth Mental Health Crisis and Preventing the Next One
• Two Futures: The Economic Case for Keeping Youth on Track
• Understanding Mental Health as a Public Health Issue
• What Does a Public Health Approach to Mental Health and Illness Look Like?
• Youth Risk Behavior Trends 2007-2017

Research & Reports
• Advancng the Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being of At-Risk Youth: A Conceptual Framework (Report)
• Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: A Review of Programs and Practices
• Adolescent Risk Behavior Subgroups: An Empirical Assessment
• The Development of Coping
• Education Commission of the States Issue Briefs: At Risk Youth
• The Effectiveness of Preventative Interventions to Reduce Mental Health Problems in at-risk Children and Young People
• Foundations for Young Adult Success: A Developmental Framework
• Giving everyone the health of the educated: an examination of whether social change would save more lives than medical advances
• Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health
• Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity - A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence
• The Science of Adolescent Risk-Taking
• Synthesis of Research and Resources to Support At-Risk Youth

Related Agencies and Websites

• Advocates for Youth
• Bureau for At-Risk Youth
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center for Prevention Research and Development
• Center for Thriving Children
• Child Trends, Inc.
• Children's Institute
• National Dropout Prevention Network
• Prevent Child Abuse k
• Prevention First
• Prevention Institute
• Society for Prevention Research
• Strengthening Families Program (SEP)

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