Risk Taking Behavior
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Description: The Global Youth ACTION Network is a collaboration among youth and youth-serving organizations to share information, resources and solutions to promote greater youth engagement. The GYAN creates the opportunity for every young person to be heard, leverages their voices to impact national and global agendas and provides tools, recognition and financial support for youth who take positive action to improve our world - community by community.
Description: Reclaiming Youth is a movement of professionals, citizens, parents, and policy leaders concerned with children and youth in conflict in home, school, and community. Reclaiming Youth is offers training opportunities, strength-based publications, research and advocacy for creating environments in which all of our children and youth can thrive and grow.
Description: The Cool Spot is a research-based alcohol prevention Web site for youth aged 11-13. Using vivid graphics, popular Japanese-inspired animation, and interactive games, The Cool Spot delivers vital messages about underage drinking risks and ways to resist peer pressure.
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Author: Scott, Dawn (4 more by this author)
Description: Literature review, bibliographies, links, resources and measures relating to youth social competence.
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Bullying and Victimization: What Adults Can Do to Help? 
Author: Buhs, Eric; Maria DeGuzman
Description: A review of possible reasons for bullying and some supporting information linked to them.
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.
Description: The Too Smart To Start web site helps youth, families, educators, and communities prevent underage alcohol use and its related problems. It provides useful programs and strategies, downloadable materials, interactive games and exercises, and other resources to support you in responding to "The Surgeon General's Call to Action To Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking."
University of Illinois Extension Character Development
Description: A collection of resources and offerings designed to combat bullying in many settings, including the workplace, schools and parenting settings. Easy to navigate with plenty of tools and information.
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STRYVE-Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere
Description: STRYVE, or Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere, is a national initiative led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to prevent youth violence before it starts among young people ages 10 to 24. STRYVE’s vision is safe and healthy youth who can achieve their full potential as connected and contributing members of thriving, violence-free families, schools, and communities.
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Younger Youth and Positive Youth Development
Author: Huebner, Angela (4 more by this author); Bernice Humphrey; Debra Delgado
Description: Younger youth between the ages of nine and thirteen are a key age group to focus on when thinking about and developing positive youth development programs. Positive youth development approaches with younger youth are among those methods that are most effective at preventing negative health outcomes, such as sexual risk behavior and unintended pregnancy.
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Description: This brief discusses the signs and symptoms of alcohol and drug use and provides recommendations to assess substance use among youth in your program.
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Description: Serves as a virtual clearinghouse to support national and international research initiatives in effective bullying prevention and intervention. The central objective is to unite researchers in bullying prevention and intervention in order to further our understanding of the complex social ecology underlying bullying dynamics. BRNET members engage in web-based dialogue about cutting-edge methodologies and strategies, apply for extramural research grants and contracts; implement exemplary, evidence-based models in field settings; and disseminate this information to educators, students, and parents.
Cyber Bullying Among Children and Youth: Best Practices for Prevention and Intervention
Author: Limber, Susan
Description: Cyber bullying among children and youth is a relatively recent phenomenon that has received considerable attention in the last couple of years by educators, policy makers, and the general public. Although research on the phenomenon is still in its infancy, recent studies have begun to reveal the nature, prevalence, and possible effects of cyber bullying. Susan Limber, PhD., MLS will provide a brief overview of this current literature and then will discuss best practices to prevent and address cyber bullying for adults who work with children and youth.
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Protecting Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment and Emotional Violence
Author: Garbarino, James
Description: Dr. Garbarino's presentation focused on how a school's social system plays a decisive role in the process of bullying, sexual harassment and emotional violence in the lives of teenagers. One core message is to avoid the temptation to see bullying as a personal problem and instead to always look for the workings of the school as a social system. This implies a need for strategies for responding that include character education, better feedback from students, and more explicit demonstration of adult caring in the school. The goal is policies and programs that seek to change the culture of the school, such as by changing "bystander" behavior through character education.
The Cutting Edge: Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescence Research Facts and Findings
Author: Whitlock, Janis (5 more by this author)
Description: This Research Facts and Findings article and narrated presentation offer a brief overview of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and provide starting points for proactively addressing and responding to NSSI among adolescents. (15 minutes)