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SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, like guidance, training, and fact sheets, to help schools create and maintain a safe learning environment.

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Guidance

Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Substance Use Prevention

Department of Education, and Department of Justice, 2024

This guide offers information that can help parents raise children who understand the risks of substance use. It includes an overview of substance use among children, youth, and young adults; risk factors and protective factors; suggestions for how to talk to young people about drugs; and tips on what to do if parents suspect their child is using substances.

Guidance

Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults

Department of Health and Human Services, 2020

This guide discusses effective programs and policies to prevent vaping among youth and young adults, challenges to reducing e-cigarette use and vaping, and program and policy implementation strategies that can be used to address these challenges.

Webpage

School and Campus Health

Department of Health and Human Services

This webpage provides information and resources to assist efforts to promote mental health and substance use prevention in schools and on campuses and to provide safe learning environments.

Webpage

FindSupport.gov

Department of Health and Human Services

This website is designed to help people identify available resources, explore information about various treatment options, and learn how to reach out to get the support they need for issues related to mental health, drugs, or alcohol.

Webinar

Lessons from the Field Webinar - Understanding Access and Promoting Safety: Youth and Online Drugs

Department of Education, 2024

This recorded webinar helps practitioners understand how counterfeit medications and illicit substances are made available online and shipped directly to people in their homes.

Webinar

Lessons from the Field Webinar - Part 1: Knowing the Facts About Fentanyl

Department of Education, 2023

This recorded webinar provides information on what fentanyl is and why it is so addictive and deadly, as well as how students get it and in what forms. It is the first in a two-part miniseries.

Webinar

Lessons from the Field Webinar - Part 2: Preventing and Addressing Fentanyl Use

Department of Education, 2023

This recorded webinar provides information on approaches schools and communities are taking to educate students on the risks of fentanyl. It is the second in a two-part miniseries.

Webpage

FindTreatment.gov

Department of Health and Human Services

This website serves as a confidential and anonymous resource for persons seeking treatment for mental and substance use disorders in the United States and its territories.

Guidance

Talking With Your College-Bound Young Adult About Alcohol: Parent Guide

Department of Health and Human Services, 2023

This guide gives parents information they can discuss with their college-bound young adults about the consequences of underage drinking.

Webinar

Lessons from the Field - The Facts About Student Vaping and Approaches to Prevention

Department of Education, 2022

This recorded webinar shares data on vaping use among young people and the impact of vaping on youth development and health. It also includes information on approaches that teach young people about the dangers of vaping via a range of strategies.