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Author: Stevens, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: This guide for 4-H Clubs and members suggests ways youth can participate as an active
asset in their communities to promote emergency and disaster planning. It includes sample activities, links to resources, and action steps for serving as a catalyst in jump-starting preparedness planning in business, community and families. The guide can be used by traditional 4-H clubs, specialty clubs, school enrichment or 4-H Afterschool programs.
Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action,
Description: Youth violence is a complex public health problem with many
risk factors. This chapter discusses four distinct strategies for combating the
problem of youth violence and offers for each strategy best practices—the elements and activities of intervention design, planning, and implementation that are recommended on the basis of the best knowledge currently available.
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
Author: Willard, Nancy
Description: Web site with information on effective strategies to assist young people in acquiring knowledge, decision-making skills, motivation, and self-control to behave in a safe, responsible and legal manner when using the Internet and other information technologies.
Child Abuse Prevention Month Resources 
Description: These resources will assist you in defining, recognizing, preventing and reporting child abuse.
Description: Tips for parents to deal with bullying.
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness for the Child Care Setting
Description: This fact sheet discusses emergency and disaster preparedness for childcare settings, including an action checklist and other concerns.
Description: This web site provides basic information and the latest recall information on lead poisoning. As well as current links for information about lead levels, protocols and related information.
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on how to prepare for and host a safe field trip. It includes, medical supplies list, risk management ideas and the other suggestions.
Description: This fact sheet provides basic information on lead and lead poisoning in children.
NCFY Recommends: Help from a Counselor Just a Text Away
Description: National Safe Place created TXT 4 HELP Interactive, which allows youth to text live with a mental health professional, based on research that says youth seeking help for difficult situations are more likely to look for information electronically than in person. Any youth can text the word "SAFE" and the address of their current location to 69866 and receive the address for the closest Safe Place site and a contact number for the local youth shelter. This automated response will now also prompt users to reply with "2CHAT" to be connected immediately to a mental health professional.
Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along
Description: Interactive flash driven website, models the thinking behind conflict resolution using language and examples that kids can understand and implement. Teachers guide and additional resources are included. Available in Spanish and Arabic.
Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities
Description: The Guide is intended to give schools,
districts, and communities the critical concepts and components of good crisis planning, stimulate thinking about the crisis preparedness process, and provide
examples of promising practices.
Description: Prevention strategies, research-based overviews, and other information to help communities connect with youth to prevent school violence.
School Shootings: Parents Should Talk to Children of Every Age
Author: McCann, Ellie (2 more by this author); Kathleen Olson, Program Director--Partnering for School Success
Description: When a school shooting occurs, like the Sandy Hook Elementary School or Virginia Tech shootings, it may make your child feel vulnerable. They may need help coping with their feelings. Parents should "check in" with their children of every age to see how they're feeling about the school shooting. It is important to know what children are thinking or feeling and be prepared to support them.
School Violence Prevention and Intervention
Description: This website provides a variety of resources related to school and youth violence and strategies for prevention.
Should You Worry About School Violence?
Description: This short article discusses school violence and strategies for youth to deal with violent situations.
Summertime Safety with Children
Description: During the warm summer months, children are involved in many physical activities. It is up to adults to identify potential hazards and act with safety in mind - to make changes to the environment, avoid hazards, and set rules for youth to follow. Read this month's Hot Topic for resources on: sun protection, heat stress, water safety, the hazards of insects, playground safety, safety on bicycles and other wheeled vehicles, and car and bus safety.
The Use of Insect Repellent by Child Care Programs
Description: This fact sheet discusses the use of and guidelines for insect repellent in childcare settings as well as a sample permission slip for using insect repellent on childcare participants.
Description: Threat Assessment in Schools is the companion piece the the US Secret Service Final Report and Findings, a study of school shootings from 1974 to 2000. It provides excellent strategies for school and communities to take preventative actions.
Tips for Helping Students Recovering from Traumatic Events
Description: This brochure provides tips for parents, teachers, school administrators, coaches and students on how to cope with a natural disaster.
Toward Safe and Orderly Schools: The National Study of Delinquency Prevention in
Description: This report presents findings from a national survey of elementary, middle, and
secondary schools.
Violence in Our Schools: Helping Children Through Grief
Author: Tralle, Minnell (5 more by this author)
Description: Tips for parents when dealing with violence in schools.
West Nile Virus: What YOu Should Know
Description: This fact sheet provides current information on the West Nile Virus and how to best protect children in a childcare setting.
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Resources for Responding to and coping with Hurricane related events
Description: Lists of links and resources regarding coping with hurricanes
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Webinar Explores Hunger and Nutrition Across the Generations
Description: Thursday, December 13 at 1:00pm Eastern Join Generations United for a free webinar on how to address hunger and improve nutrition across the generations featuring Kim Caldwell, No Kid Hungry Program Manager at Share Our Strength and Jaia Peterson Lent, Deputy Executive Director at Generations United. Learn more about how hunger impacts children, families and older adults, innovative intergenerational solutions to address these problems, and public opinion poll results and recommendations from Generations United’s new report Hunger and Nutrition: What's at Stake for Children, Families and Older Adults.
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200+ Ready-To-Use Reproducible Activity Sheets That Help Educators Take A Bite Out Of Bullying & CD
Description: Bullying, a number one concern with young people, can now be addressed with this comprehensive collection of activities. Based on empirical research this collection zeros in on: areas where most bullying takes place, what and whom bullies target, bystander intervention, bullying facts and myths, strategies to lessen or end bullying, and much, much more. Use these activity sheets to teach a lesson, supplement an existing bullying program, or reinforce bullying after a program has been completed. Activity sheets can be easily reproduced from the included CD and, where appropriate, you have the choice of color or black and white. Intended User: youth in grades 3 - 8
America's Child Care and Pre-K Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy
Author: Brazelton, T.; Sanford Newman, William Christeson; William Bratton, Jerry Sanders; Edward Zigler, Lawrence Sherman
Description: This brief summarizes the report of an expert panel convened by FIGHT CRIME: INVEST IN KIDS, an anti-crime group of over 2,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, victims of violence, and youth violence experts.
Research shows that quality educational child care for preschool-age children and after-school programs for older kids lead to lower rates of crime, drug use and welfare dependence, and to higher rates of high school graduation as the children grow up. Tragically, inadequate funding denies thousands of eligible children access to these programs.
Description: BAM! was created to answer kids' questions on health issues and recommend ways to make their
bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer. BAM! also serves as an aid to teachers, providing them with interactive activities to
support their health and science curriculums that are educational and fun.
Description: This PBS Site has a game for kids to play about bullying.
Description: Bully-Buster Bingo presents 26 techniques for reacting to bullies through the familiar game of bingo. The techniques can be used as a springboard for discussion. Presenting lessons on bullying signals the bully that everyone is aware of his/her behavior and that no one thinks very much of anyone who behaves in a bullying manner. Includes an eight-lesson leader’s guide with reproducible activity sheets, 30 reproducible bingo cards, and reproducible calling cards. The included CD provides PDF files of the activity sheets and color bingo boards for easy reproduction. Print as many or as few boards as you need. At the end of the game the students may keep the cards as a reminder of the bully-bustin’ techniques presented in the game or the cards can be collected and re-used. Intended User: youth in grades 4 & 5
Bullying: What Educators Can Do About It
Author: Perkins, Daniel (17 more by this author); Elain Berrena
Description: This is a resource developed particularly for elementary school teachers. The bulletin includes activities and tips about what teachers can do to prevent or stop bullying. As part of this bulletin there is an annotated bibliography of children’s books related to the topic of bullying.
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness for the Child Care Setting
Description: This fact sheet discusses emergency and disaster preparedness for childcare settings, including an action checklist and other concerns.
Farm Safety Just 4 Kids website
Description: This website provides consumers with information regarding the safety of children on farms. The mission of Farm Safety 4 Just Kids is to promote a safe farm environment to prevent health hazards, injuries, and fatalities to children and youth. The site provides resources and training to individuals to promote farm safety.
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on how to prepare for and host a safe field trip. It includes, medical supplies list, risk management ideas and the other suggestions.
Packer Center's Kids Against Bullying
Description: This is a kid-friendly web site with videos and stories to help spot bullying and ways to stop bullying.
Stand Up Against Bullies Program--Grades 3-5
Description: This comprehensive program will help the bullies understand their actions and how others feel about the way they behave and it will prepare the other students for encounters with bullies. Prepare your children now for dealing with a problem that effects all children in one way or another either as being a victim, bystander, or the bully. The program includes: 1. Lesson Plans: Detailed plans for each lesson, 2. Stories: Stories about bullies who tattle, push others around, form cliques, tease, can’t accept differences, are jealous, are prejudiced, and lack compassion, 3. Analytical Examination: Students examine each situation from the viewpoint of the bully, victim, and bystanders, 4. Role-Plays: Students role-play the way to handle a difficult bullying situation, 5. Supplementary Activity Sheets: Additional reproducible activity sheets to reinforce or provide alternative lesson activities, 6. Resource Information: Reproducible information for adults on bullying and a pre/post test for evaluative purposes. Intended User: Volunteers working with youth, grades 3-5, classroom teachers for grades 3-5.
West Nile Virus: What YOu Should Know
Description: This fact sheet provides current information on the West Nile Virus and how to best protect children in a childcare setting.
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Author: Duffett, Ann; Jean Johnson
Description: All work and No Play discusses what teens and parents want out of out-of-school time programs. It also addresses how low income and minority families view the topic, which is different than that of middle income families.
America's Child Care and Pre-K Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy
Author: Brazelton, T.; Sanford Newman, William Christeson; William Bratton, Jerry Sanders; Edward Zigler, Lawrence Sherman
Description: This brief summarizes the report of an expert panel convened by FIGHT CRIME: INVEST IN KIDS, an anti-crime group of over 2,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, victims of violence, and youth violence experts.
Research shows that quality educational child care for preschool-age children and after-school programs for older kids lead to lower rates of crime, drug use and welfare dependence, and to higher rates of high school graduation as the children grow up. Tragically, inadequate funding denies thousands of eligible children access to these programs.
Integrating developmental assets into your programs
Author: Johnstad, Kristin
Description: Presentation on use of the developmental asset framework as a lens for assessing and increasing program quality, reflecting on critical elements of programming and the continuum of program practice. Examine relationships, program practice, activities, program policies and environment through as asset lens. Use Search Institute tools and share stories, examples and wisdom. CYFAR 2003 workshop.
Author: Dunham, Trudy (5 more by this author)
Description: It's a classic scene: the bully shoves the victim. The surrounding crowd does nothing. This is the bystander effect in action. Why does no one intervene to stop the violence? Decades of social psychology research suggests the answer is a diffusion of responsibility. But what about the case where the victim and bystanders know the bully? In the school, workplace, and community, the bystander co-creates the social context that allows the bullying behavior to flourish. This brief review of the research includes strategies for changing the social context, and hopefully ending the bullying behavior.