Youth Prevention Resources

Grief, Loss, and Substance Abuse: References and Resources

This resource list is designed to provide practitioners and others interested in the field of youth prevention with practical strategies and tools, the latest research findings, and other up-to-date resources related to issues of grief and loss, which are often important yet overlooked components of substance abuse problems. These concerns are especially prevalent when serving youth facing multiple risk factors. Sources include a list of books and book chapters, curricula, handouts, and tools, powerpoint presentations, program evaluations, scholarly articles, articles form the field and websites. Descriptions and abstracts are included when available, along with live links to online resources.

Prevention and Foster Youth

This resource list is designed to provide practitioners, youth, parents, and others with practical strategies and tools, the latest research findings, and other up-to-date resources relevent to prevention work with foster youth.  Resources included here address the interrelated problems of child maltreatment and youth and family substance abuse, and the latest thinking related to prevention efforts with foster care youth. Sources include handouts, articles, broadcasts from the field, government resources and reports, reports by service providers and advocacy groups, and scholarly articles. Descriptions and abstracts are included when available, along with live links to online resources.

Partnerships for Youth Prevention

This resource list is designed to provide practitioners, youth, parents, and others interested in youth prevention with practical strategies and tools, the latest research findings, and other up-to-date resources relevant to partnership and collaboration.  The ability to collaborate effectively has become increasingly important to serving youth effectively today, and a wealth of study and experimentation has gone into understanding what makes it work. Sources include curricula, handouts, handbooks, toolkits, links to organization websites, articles from the field, research reports, scholarly articles, and a list of books and book chapters. This list helps to synthesize such information, as relevant to youth prevention; descriptions and abstracts are included when available, along with live links to online resources.

General Youth Prevention Resources

This resource list is designed to provide practitioners, youth, parents, and others interested in general youth prevention information with practical strategies and tools, the latest research findings, and other up-to-date resources relevant to alcohol and other drug prevention. Sources include webinars, scholarly articles, research, and toolkits for parents and educators.

Youth Permanency Toolkit

Texas CASA is pleased to off er the Youth Permanency Toolkit as an important
resource for working with older youth in the child welfare system. It is our hope that this
Toolkit will provide you straightforward information about the needs of older youth in
care, and eff ective strategies for meeting those needs. But more than anything else
our greatest hope is that this Toolkit will in some way inspire and motivate you to take
action now and make these youth and their future a priority.

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