Table of Contents
By Topic
Addiction
Partnership to End Addiction – The nation’s leading organization dedicated to addiction prevention, treatment and recovery, we are a diverse community of researchers, advocates, clinicians, communicators and more.
Alcohol
How to Tell If Your Child Is Drinking Alcohol from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Talk. They Hear You. Campaign – SAMHSA’s national substance use prevention campaign helps parents and caregivers start talking with their children early about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs uses.
Cannabis
Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: A Comprehensive Update of Evidence and Recommendations – By Benedikt Fischer, PhD, Cayley Russell, MA, Pamela Sabioni, PhD, Wim van den Brink, MD, PhD, Bernard Le Foll, MD, PhD, Wayne Hall, PhD,J ̈urgen Rehm, PhD, and Robin Room, PhD and printed in the American Journal of Public Health Policy
Smart Approaches to Marijuana – An alliance of organizations and individuals dedicated to a health-first approach to marijuana policy. They are professionals working in mental health and public health, are bipartisan, and are medical doctors, lawmakers, treatment providers, preventionists, teachers, law enforcement officers and others who seek a middle road between incarceration and legalization.
The Cannabis/Marijuana Awareness & Prevention Toolkit – Theory-based and evidence-informed resources created by educators, parents, and researchers aimed at preventing middle and high school students’ use of cannabis/marijuana authored by the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Updated Inventory of Programs for the Prevention and Treatment of Youth Cannabis Use – By the Washington Institute for Public Policy
Youth Now – Youth Now educates, supports and empowers young people. They are a youth substance use prevention initiative developed by caring adults and local youth, paid for by marijuana tax dollars and other grants. Youth Now offers resources, campaigns, research and other supports for youth, parents, educators and providers.
Developmental Assets
Search Institute – Search Institute is a nonprofit organization with a sixty-plus-year history of collaboration with partners to conduct and apply research that promotes positive youth development and advances equity. Our tools build connections that help all young people learn and grow.
Family Support
Center for the Study of Social Policy – CSSP is a national, non-profit policy organization that connects community action, public system reform, and policy change to create a fair and just society in which all children and families thrive. They have offices in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, as well as partners in 30 states around the country.
How to Tell If Your Child Is Drinking Alcohol from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Talk. They Hear You. Campaign – SAMHSA’s national substance use prevention campaign helps parents and caregivers start talking with their children early about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs uses.
Mombian – Mombian is a lifestyle site for lesbian moms and other LGBTQ parents, offering a mix of parenting, politics, diversions, and resources.
Rural Outright: Family Resource Center – Their mission is to support LGBTQIA+ people, their families, and allies, educate local community members; and increase public awareness of the need to value and respect everyone, regardless of gender identity, expression, or sexual orientation.
Health & Wellness
National Institute on Health: United States Department of Health & Human Services – Their mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
LGBTQIA+
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network – GLSEN conduct extensive and original research to inform our evidence-based solutions for K-12 education; authors developmentally appropriate resources for educators to use throughout their school community; advises on, advocate for, and research comprehensive policies designed to protect LGBTQ students as well as students of marginalized identities; brings support to the Safe Schools Improvement Act and the Student Non-Discrimination Act and fought discriminatory legislation in over 15 states; coordinates a network of 43 chapters in 30 states across the nation, to ensure that we have access to schools and districts across the country to reach every student; empowers students to affect change by supporting student-led efforts to positively impact their own schools and local communities, and have thousands of registered GSAs nationwide.
Human Rights Campaign – By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. HRC envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people plus community members who use different language to describe identity are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.
Mombian – Mombian is a lifestyle site for lesbian moms and other LGBTQ parents, offering a mix of parenting, politics, diversions, and resources.
Rural Outright: Family Resource Center – Their mission is to support LGBTQIA+ people, their families, and allies, educate local community members; and increase public awareness of the need to value and respect everyone, regardless of gender identity, expression, or sexual orientation.
The Trevor Project – The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) young people.
Mental Health
Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice – The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is committed to promoting healing and resilience to help individuals, families, and communities adapt to adversity and stress in healthy and productive ways. Through coalition-building, advocacy, policy, networking, and education, CTIPP is building a movement to integrate a community-led, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered prevention and intervention approach across all sectors and generations.
Getting Candid: Framing the Conversation Around Youth Substance Use Prevention – Messaging guide and toolkit by the National Council on Mental Wellbeing that equips youth-serving providers and organizations with the tools and resources necessary to support meaningful prevention messaging. This toolkit includes messaging on youth substance use prevention, tip sheets, social media graphics and shareables, videos, webinars, interactive worksheets, and an educational course.
Mental Health America – The nation’s leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and to promoting the overall mental health of all.
National Alliance on Mental Illness – NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
National Institutes on Health: United States Department of Health & Human Services – Their mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – The agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center – The only federally supported resource center devoted to advancing the implementation of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. SPRC is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Mentoring
MENTOR | Become or Find a Mentor – MENTOR was created to expand that opportunity for young people by building a youth mentoring field and movement, serving as the expert and go-to resource on quality mentoring.
Nicotine
Truth Initiative: Inspiring Lives Free From Smoking, Vaping & Nicotine – Truth Initiative is America’s largest nonprofit public health organization committed to making tobacco use and nicotine addiction a thing of the past.
Opioids
Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Opioid Overdose: What’s Working in the United States-An introduction for public health, law enforcement, local organizations, and others striving to serve their community – Authored by Jennifer J. Carroll, PhD, MPH; Traci C. Green, PhD, MSc; and Rita K. Noonan, PhD for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Policy
Benefit-Cost Results from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy – Washington State legislature has directed WSIPP to identify “evidence-based” policies. The goal is to provide Washington policymakers and budget writers with a list of well-researched public policies that can, with a high degree of certainty, lead to better statewide outcomes coupled with a more efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice – The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is committed to promoting healing and resilience to help individuals, families, and communities adapt to adversity and stress in healthy and productive ways. Through coalition-building, advocacy, policy, networking, and education, CTIPP is building a movement to integrate a community-led, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered prevention and intervention approach across all sectors and generations.
Center for the Study of Social Policy – CSSP is a national, non-profit policy organization that connects community action, public system reform, and policy change to create a fair and just society in which all children and families thrive. They have offices in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, as well as partners in 30 states around the country.
Centering Racial Equity: A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Through Data Integration – From the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
Drug Control Data Dashboard – From the Office of National Drug Control Policy, filter data by drug type, year, and source.
Office of National Drug Control Policy: National Drug Control Strategy – Access the National Drug Control Strategy, Performance Review System Report, National Southwest Border Counter-Narcotics Strategy, National Northern Border Counter-Narcotics Strategy, Caribbean Border Counter-Narcotics Strategy, and the National Interdiction Command and Control Plan
Updated Inventory of Programs for the Prevention and Treatment of Youth Cannabis Use – By the Washington Institute for Public Policy
Prescription Drugs
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day – Drug Enforcement Agency’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day reflects DEA’s commitment to Americans’ safety and health, encouraging the public to remove unneeded medications from their homes as a measure of preventing medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting.
Racial Equity
Centering Racial Equity: A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Through Data Integration – From the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
Recovery
Partnership to End Addiction – The nation’s leading organization dedicated to addiction prevention, treatment and recovery, we are a diverse community of researchers, advocates, clinicians, communicators and more.
Substance Use Disorder
National Institute on Drug Abuse – Their mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
Partnership to End Addiction – The nation’s leading organization dedicated to addiction prevention, treatment and recovery, we are a diverse community of researchers, advocates, clinicians, communicators and more.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – The agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
Substance Use Prevention
Benefit-Cost Results from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy – Washington State legislature has directed WSIPP to identify “evidence-based” policies. The goal is to provide Washington policymakers and budget writers with a list of well-researched public policies that can, with a high degree of certainty, lead to better statewide outcomes coupled with a more efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
Cannabis/Marijuana Awareness & Prevention Toolkit – Theory-based and evidence-informed resources created by educators, parents, and researchers aimed at preventing middle and high school students’ use of cannabis/marijuana authored by the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Drug Control Data Dashboard – From the Office of National Drug Control Policy, filter data by drug type, year, and source.
Getting Candid: Framing the Conversation Around Youth Substance Use Prevention – Messaging guide and toolkit by the National Council on Mental Wellbeing that equips youth-serving providers and organizations with the tools and resources necessary to support meaningful prevention messaging. This toolkit includes messaging on youth substance use prevention, tip sheets, social media graphics and shareables, videos, webinars, interactive worksheets, and an educational course.
National Institute on Drug Abuse – Their mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
Office of National Drug Control Policy: National Drug Control Strategy – Access the National Drug Control Strategy, Performance Review System Report, National Southwest Border Counter-Narcotics Strategy, National Northern Border Counter-Narcotics Strategy, Caribbean Border Counter-Narcotics Strategy, and the National Interdiction Command and Control Plan
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – The agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
Updated Inventory of Programs for the Prevention and Treatment of Youth Cannabis Use – By the Washington Institute for Public Policy
Youth Now – Youth Now educates, supports and empowers young people. They are a youth substance use prevention initiative developed by caring adults and local youth, paid for by marijuana tax dollars and other grants. Youth Now offers resources, campaigns, research and other supports for youth, parents, educators and providers.
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Resource Center – The only federally supported resource center devoted to advancing the implementation of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. SPRC is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The Trevor Project: Crisis Services – The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) young people. Crisis counselors are trained to answer calls, chats, or texts from LGBTQ young people who reach out on our free, confidential and secure 24/7 service when they are struggling with issues such as coming out, LGBTQ identity, depression, and suicide.
Treatment
Partnership to End Addiction – The nation’s leading organization dedicated to addiction prevention, treatment and recovery, we are a diverse community of researchers, advocates, clinicians, communicators and more.
Updated Inventory of Programs for the Prevention and Treatment of Youth Cannabis Use – By the Washington Institute for Public Policy
Youth Development
Blueprints: Database for Youth Development Programs – The Blueprints mission is to provide a registry of evidence-based interventions that are effective in reducing antisocial behavior and promoting a healthy course of youth development and adult maturity. This interactive search enables you to identify Blueprints-certified interventions based on specific criteria and then browse through a wide range of interventions that match those criteria.