Announcements

This website compiles a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to prevent or reduce public health problems like violence. They can help improve the health and well-being of communities.

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This webinar recording highlights the role of mental health professionals in supporting school safety efforts within their school communities. During the webinar, presenters demonstrated the importance of developing a collaborative planning team to support emergency operations plan (EOP) development.

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Location and date: Austin, Texas, June 22–27, 2025

Closing date for applications: December 20, 2024

This program for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators in grade 5–12 emphasizes STEM learning experiences by incorporating a space science theme supported by National Aeronautics and Space Administration missions. Teacher participants are provided with information and experiences through speakers, hands-on activities, and field investigations that promote space science and enrichment activities for themselves and others.

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These tables present national estimates of key indicators of school crime and safety, including: bullying during school, criminal victimization during school, the presence of drugs at school, hate-related graffiti at school, school safety and security practices, and student perceptions of safety at school and in the surrounding neighborhood. The estimates cover students in public and private schools, in grades 6 through 12, in the United States.

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These communications materials include talking points, sample social media posts, and graphics that communicate important traffic safety information related to drunk driving and drug-impaired driving.

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This webpage provides a variety of pathways for students pursuing a degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics), educators looking for new ways to engage their classrooms, and citizen scientists enthusiastic about sharing their observations to contribute to authentic and meaningful research. 

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This lesson teaches a model of decision making that can help teens feel equipped and empowered to make decisions that maintain or improve their health and well-being. To put the decision-making model into practice, students will respond to scenarios involving polysubstance use, where they will apply the model. Each group will work through a given scenario, exploring options, considering outcomes, identifying the best option, developing action plans, and evaluating the decision. Through this process, students will develop the skills to make health-enhancing choices in challenging situations, as well as understand the risks of polysubstance use.

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This webpage compiles resources to support efforts to promote mental health and substance use prevention in schools and on campuses and to provide safe learning environments.

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This guide offers tips and recommendations for including youth voices through the creation of a youth advisory council. This guide is designed for organizations that want to involve young voices and input in their practices, activities, and programs.

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Read this announcement to learn about four new centers that will help identify high-reward, quick turnaround, scalable solutions to improve education outcomes for all learners and eliminate persistent achievement and attainment gaps. 

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This lesson is focused on recognizing and responding to overdoses. Drug overdoses continue to occur at alarmingly high levels. While most teens do not use drugs, overdose deaths for teens have risen to historic levels. The primary objective of this lesson is to empower students with the ability to demonstrate practices and behaviors that support individual and collective health and well-being, specifically by recognizing the signs of an overdose.

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This report describes the implementation efforts of the first grantees under the Statewide Family Engagement Centers (SFEC) and how they aligned with program priorities. The program provides grants to selected partnerships of education organizations and their states to deliver services and disseminate technical assistance resources to further family-school engagement. The study was designed to provide early lessons about the program, including the extent to which implementation reflected the 2018 federal emphasis on providing services directly to families and schools, using specific approaches, topics, and ways of collaborating among partners, and serving mostly disadvantaged families and districts with high concentrations of students from such families. The study also examined the factors that influenced grantee implementation, including challenges in carrying out their program efforts that coincided with the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and immediately after.

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This webpage provides a new Native American Heritage Month Fun Facts handout for students and a teaching guide filled with activity ideas for every grade level.

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Dates: November 17–23, 2024

This event is a nationwide celebration where employers, industry representatives, labor organizations, community-based organizations, workforce partners, educational institutions, and federal, state, and local government agencies host events to showcase the successes and value of Registered Apprenticeship for strengthening our economy by developing a highly skilled workforce to meet industry needs, creating pathways for career seekers to catapult into good jobs, and advancing racial and gender equity. It gives Registered Apprenticeship sponsors the opportunity to showcase their programs, facilities, and apprentices in their community. 

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This website was developed to help readers learn more about violence prevention approaches and think strategically about how to effectively select, adapt, and evaluate their next steps for violence prevention.

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This microlearning focuses on understanding and effectively addressing bullying among youth. It emphasizes the importance of trusted adult involvement, consistent responses, and creating a positive climate to address and reduce bullying. The video also reviews the definition and types of bullying, as well as the challenges youth often encounter when reporting bullying incidents.

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Date: February 11–13, 2025

This virtual conference will bring together data users, members of the research community, and policy makers to share and explore NCES’s data sets, and to discuss strategies for analysis, data linking, and data visualization.

The conference will focus on three topics:

• Identifying and Closing Learning and Achievement Gaps (February 11)
• How are the Pre-K, K–12, and Postsecondary Landscapes Changing? (February 12)
• Expanding Awareness and Use of Socio-Spatial Data, Data for Rural Areas, and Blended Data to Improve Understanding of Underrepresented Groups (February 13)

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This webpage shares simple steps youth can take to stay safe from online threats.

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This campaign provides people who are at-risk or experiencing human trafficking with information about human trafficking, how to identify potential human trafficking schemes, and how to access support. Resources also promote help-seeking behavior by reducing barriers to seeking help and destigmatizing human trafficking. Learn more.

Submission deadline: November 29, 2024, 9:00 pm ET 

This challenge seeks to engage young people ages 13 to 19 in state and local efforts to increase school attendance and engagement. Schools and organizations that work with young people are encouraged to propose creative solutions for barriers to school attendance and engagement that build on evidence-based strategies. Young people are also invited to directly submit their ideas to the Department. Learn more and submit.