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This guide offers advice on how to talk to children about tragic events that they are likely to hear about at school and/or on the news.

This recording of a past event provides information on how to talk to youth about suicide risk, how to identify the warning signs of suicide, risk factors for suicide, and research on interventions for youth suicide prevention.

This classroom activity is designed to supplement programming for middle and high school students by encouraging them to think twice about their use of digital technology.

This video shares information and strategies to sustain trauma-informed practices in schools. It highlights key approaches such as developing administrative buy-in, engaging stakeholders, and utilizing a whole-school approach to meet the needs of children, including those impacted by trauma.

This webpage provides resources for families and educators on bullying prevention. It includes resources to help schools and communities prevent bullying and cyberbullying; identify and address bullying behaviors; respond to bullying and youth suicide; and create safe and supportive schools that are free from bullying, discrimination, harassment, aggression, violence, and abuse.

This webpage provides information and resources on how educators, parents and guardians, health care professionals, and communities can help youth reject or quit vaping and other tobacco products.

This resource directory is designed to help districts and schools promote well-being among administrators, teachers, and other staff.

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. 

This video explores six key domains of comprehensive school safety and insights on how school safety leaders can approach prevention, protection, and intervention in digital and physical spaces.

This article describes bullying in childhood as a global public health problem that impacts child, adolescent, and adult health. It outlines the context in which bullying occurs, the types of bullying, consequences of bullying, and the gaps in evidenced-based prevention strategies.