Federal Resources

This webinar discusses how "makerspaces" foster movement, innovation, and creativity designed and maintained by youth. A makerspace is a collaborative workshop that leverages science and technology, along with innovation tools and approaches to spark creativity. Makerspaces can engage youth in meaningful ways through learning and teaching rapid prototyping techniques and empowering them as leaders in open source hardware and software designs.

This resource describes community youth mapping, a youth-centered participatory development strategy that engages young people and adults in canvassing their communities to document community-based resources, needs, and opportunities.

This resource shares some best practices that development leaders — particularly program designers and managers — can apply to give young people the opportunities they need to become agents of peace.

This webinar shares findings from a study conducted by the University of California, Berkeley for UNICEF on engaging adolescents in research. Youth-led participatory research techniques ensure that the youth voice is included in program design, implementation, and evaluation.

This resource will guide youth through some key concepts, planning tools and resources to help them develop youth councils.

This report was commissioned to identify effective approaches and recommendations to meaningfully engage youth in programs, policies and operational practices. It offers findings and action-oriented recommendations that are applicable to a wide range of actors in the field. 

This resource features 19 youth, ages 15-23, who were invited to Washington, D.C., to speak to officials in the federal government and share their experiences being children of incarcerated parents. Their ideas and feedback were used to create products to help other youth who have or have had an incarcerated parent. These products include a presentation sharing coping strategies, a visual summary of the youth’s observations and needs, a tip sheet for youth, and a video featuring the stories of young people dealing with having a parent behind bars. 

This report, which marks the 20th release of this flagship publication, provides the most recent statistics on children and families in the U.S. across 41 key indicators covering a range of domains, including family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. 

This blog post provides parents with tips on how to start a conversation with their child about cyberbullying and walks them through potential problems or risks their child might experience. It provides guidance on how to stay informed about the rapidly changing technology used for online interactions and cyberbullying. This blog post was developed in follow up to a post on Tools for Parents regarding cyberbullying. 

Working to advance or implement youth financial education? Our updated Resource Guide connects you to information, insights, and best practices about what works in advancing K-12 financial education.

Identify teaching techniques and learning strategies to address the three building blocks that influence the development of lifelong personal finance decision-making skills.

Our Curriculum Review Tool helps you review and compare financial education curricula across four key dimensions, so you can select the most promising ones for your classroom.

Most people get their money habits and skills from their parents and caregivers. (Probably you did too!) That’s why we think it’s important to give parents and caregivers some background in how children develop, financially.

Basic skills and attitudes form early and lay the foundation for later financial well-being. When children are ages 3 to 5, help them learn to stay focused, make plans, follow directions, complete tasks, and solve problems.

This page provides information and resources to help parents and caregivers teach young children the basic skills needed for a bright financial future. 

Kids in middle childhood begin to absorb and interact with the financial world around them. When children are ages 6 to 12, help them with rules of thumb and day-to-day habits that shape how they earn, save, and shop.

This resource shares what parents and caregivers can do to help their children develop positive financial attitudes, habits, and shortcuts during middle childhood. It provides suggestions for activities to do with children as well as where to find additional information. 

Making their own financial decisions starts to set teens and young adults apart. When children are ages 13 to 21, you can give them chances to make money choices, experience natural consequences, and reflect on their decisions.

Making their own financial decisions starts to set teens and young adults apart. When children are ages 13 to 21, you can give them chances to make money choices, experience natural consequences, and reflect on their decisions.

You can use the Money as You Grow book club list for children ages 4 to 10 and get started reading together. Then, talk about money skills like planning for the future, setting goals, and sticking to them.

Booklet for facilitators who are implementing Money as You Grow Book Club.

Booklet to accompany the book A Bargain for Frances, helping parents read and discuss money topics with their children.

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “A Chair for my Mother” by Vera Williams. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday” by Judith Viorst. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Count on Pablo” by Barbara deRubertis.