Federal Resources

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Curious George Saves His Pennies” by Margaret and H.A. Rey. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Just Shopping with Mom” by Mercer Mayer. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money” by Emily Jenkins. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money” by Emily Jenkins. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “My Rows and Piles of Coins” by Tololwa M. Mollel. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Berenstain Bears & Mama’s New Job” by Stan and Jan Berenstain.

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Berenstain Bears’ Trouble with Money” by Stan and Jan Berenstain. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Ox-Cart Man” by Donald Hall. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Purse” by Kathy Caple. 

This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Rag Coat” by Lauren Mills. 

This page provides tools, videos, resources, webinars, and reports that educators, businesses, community colleges, and others interested in implementing or expanding apprenticeship can use to learn more. 

This webpage provides a definition of positive youth development, information on the eight key practices organizations can consider when implementing the approach, and resources communities or programs can use to incorporate positive youth development into their work. 

This website is a virtual platform for young people, between the ages of 15 and 35, who want to make positive change in their communities. It provides opportunities to connect with like-minded networks of young people, mentors, as well as resources and events. 

This website shares resources for teachers to incorporate financial education into their curriculum. It features a searchable database of more than 40 stand-alone classroom activities, a curriculum review tool to help educators evaluate materials, and effective strategies for incorporating the building blocks of financial capability into the classroom. 

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report provides data summary and trend information on varying topics, including sexual behavior, high risk substance use, violence victimization, mental health and suicide, and minority youth.

This webpage from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides YRBSS results reports, including high school and middle school reports and fact sheets. 

Campus Drug Prevention is DEA’s website for professionals working to prevent drug misuse among college students.

Operation Prevention is DEA’s collaboration with Discovery Education that offers school-, community-, and workplace-based prevention resources.

The Red Ribbon Campaign is DEA's campaign for parents, teachers, educators, and community organizations to raise awareness about substance abuse.

The Red Ribbon Patch Program is designed to provide Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts the opportunity to earn a patch from the DEA by engaging in anti-drug activities in celebration of Red Ribbon Week.

DEA's Get Smart about Drugs publications database, featuring English and Spanish versions of guides, posters, fact cards, and other materials. 

• Drugs of Abuse: www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/sites/getsmartaboutdrugs.com/files/publications/Drugs%20of%20Abuse%202020-Web%20Version-508%20compliant-4-24-20.pdf

• Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent’s Guide to Prevention: www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/sites/getsmartaboutdrugs.com/files/publications/GrowingUpDrugFree%28Final-508%29%282017%29.pdf

• Preventing Marijuana Use Among Youth and Young Adults: www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/sites/getsmartaboutdrugs.com/files/publications/Preventing%20Marijuana%20Use%20%28Final-508%29%20%286-11-19%29.pdf

• Prescription for Disaster: How Teens Abuse Medicine: www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/sites/getsmartaboutdrugs.com/files/publications/DEA_PrescriptionForDisaster-2018ed_508_0.pdf

• Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students: www.campusdrugprevention.gov/sites/default/files/Strategic%20Planning%20Guide%20%28Final-Online%29%20%281%29.pdf

• Fact cards for adults about various drugs – www.getsmartaboutdrugs.com/factcards

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is DEA's event for parents working with youth and young adults to plan programs to safely dispose of unwanted, unused, or expired prescription medicines.

In this video, learn how the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs prioritizes the following civil military outreach programs to provide leadership, educational opportunities, and community partnerships for youth: 

• National Guard YOUTH CHALLENGE Program
• DoD STARBASE Program
• DoD INNOVATION READINESS TRAINING Program
• Junior Reserve OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products. You can find information on over 5,000 product recalls and recall alerts on the CPSC website.

Publications from the CPSC regarding safety hazards and issues of various types of playground equipment.