This resource helps programs who work with justice-involved youth better understand the steps to take to recognize and respond to the trauma-related needs of youth, family members, and staff working in the justice system. This guide offers trauma-informed policies and procedures to help make juvenile justice organizations safer and more effective by ensuring the physical […]
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Talking About Suicide with Friends and Peers
This resource provides information to support youth talking about suicide with friends and peers. This fact sheet includes what you can do, action words, skills for getting help, as well as myths and facts about how to help as a peer. This resource is most helpful for youth ages 12 and older.
Words to Use When Talking About Suicide
This resource provides information to help youth know what words to use when talking about suicide with friends and peers. This fact sheet includes when you should ask, examples of what to say, when to get help, as well as next steps. This resource is most helpful for youth ages 12 and older.
Taking Care of You
This resource provides information to help youth practice self-care. This fact sheet includes information on what it means to take care of yourself, as well as recommended hotlines and conversation starters. This resource is most helpful for youth ages 12 and older.
Making Unaccompanied Homeless Youth Determinations:
This form may be completed by a financial aid administrator (FAA) who is evaluating a student’s eligibility for independent student status. There is no official federal form that FAAs are required to use for unaccompanied homeless youth determinations; this form is provided as an optional tool to assist with this task. For official guidance related […]
Addressing Inequities in Higher Education
Although diversity in higher education has continued to increase over the past 20 years, colleges and universities continue to enroll Black, Latinx and American Indian students in bachelor’s programs at low rates. This Policy Guide explores various types of barriers that these students face in: College readiness: This includes inadequate access to advanced coursework, counseling […]
Faculty & Staff Support: A Toolkit for Mid-Level Managers
This toolkit provides tested change leadership strategies for mid-level leaders, and those who support them, with the goal of better equipping these critical actors to lead efforts that accelerate equitable outcomes for marginalized and racially minoritized students. We define equity here as the elimination of race and socioeconomic status as predictors of outcomes. Why focus […]
Suicide Incidence and Rate Dashboard
This dashboard supports suicide prevention planning by increasing public access to and awareness about trends in deaths by suicide in California.
Find Your Anchor
The premise behind Find Your Anchor is that each person needs an anchor. “Establish an anchor — a dependable, stable, secure base that you can hold on to, one that keeps you firmly planted, no matter what winds or storms may come.” Find Your Anchor doesn’t assume to be the anchor, or have all the […]
Partnering with Local Mental Health Providers to Support Foster Youth in College
The new Partnering with Local Mental Health Providers to Support Foster Youth in College Toolkit documents these efforts so that California Community College support program staff, campus health center or mental health staff, county mental health agencies, and local providers can replicate these practices to remove barriers and connect students with Medi-Cal or no insurance to mental […]