With support from the Family and Youth Services Bureau, the We Think Twice campaign has developed a valuable set of resources for youth-serving professionals designed to strengthen prevention education and other youth development programs. This collection of resources includes classroom activities and interactive tools for integrating trauma-informed approaches into programming and engaging parents and caregivers.
We invite you to take advantage of these resources in your own work and share them among your professional networks.
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Being Tech-Smart
Encourage youth to think twice about how they use digital technology and the impact it can have on their mental health and safety.
Roller Coaster Relationships, Romance, and Destiny: Media Messages in the Real World
Identifying healthy and unhealthy messages in the media related to sex, dating, and relationships can be difficult for youth. With this guide, you can support them in building healthy skills to navigate media messages.
Building Healthy Relationships: A Plug and Play Activity for Youth
Help teens develop safe and healthy relationships!
Social
Help young people discover the benefits of using digital technology in a healthy way and avoid the dangers with this free, interactive lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau. https://bit.ly/456hdwk
Newsletter or E-Blast
Help youth become tech smart.
This free, interactive lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau helps you guide youth in discovering the long-term impacts and safety implications of digital technology use. By participating in this lesson, youth will learn how to use digital technology in constructive pursuits and avoid potential dangers.
https://bit.ly/456hdwk
Social
This free, dynamic lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help youth learn to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy messages shown in the media related to sex, dating, and relationships. https://bit.ly/3ZyWJv5
Newsletter or E-Blast
Help youth overcome the influence of misguided media messages.
Often times, youth base their perceptions of reality on what they see and hear in the media, which are frequently distorted depictions. The Family & Youth Services Bureau has designed this free lesson to encourage youth to base their ideas about sex, dating, and relationships on facts, dispel myths, and identify their own values.
https://bit.ly/3ZyWJv5
Social
This free, engaging lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help you support youth in forming safe and healthy relationships. https://bit.ly/48Aq1O4
Newsletter or E-Blast
Teach youth how to form safe and healthy relationships.
Use this free lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau to help middle and high schoolers learn how to identify healthy and unhealthy relationship characteristics and cultivate safe, healthy relationships of all types—with friends, romantic partners, family, classmates, teachers, coworkers, and others.
https://bit.ly/48Aq1O4
Mental Health and Well-Being
Young people may not always recognize how their own mental health and well-being affects their quality of life. This guide helps teach youth about self-care, improving their mental health and well-being, and reducing risk-taking behaviors.
Finding My Passion
Help youth discover what they love to do and what gives them a sense of purpose in this hands-on lesson plan.
Checking Our Reality
Middle and high school students will learn the differences between peer influence and peer pressure with this lesson. Includes a facilitator's guide, quiz activity, and other materials.
Social
This free, interactive lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau provides youth with tools to support their mental health, self-care, and well-being. https://bit.ly/48wyMbL
Newsletter or E-Blast
Support the well-being of youth.
Support youth in identifying their own mental health and well-being needs, including social, emotional, physical, and intellectual/creative needs through this free lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau. The lesson also helps youth develop an individualized self-care plan.
https://bit.ly/48wyMbL
Social
Guide youth in discovering the things they love to do with this free, hands-on lesson plan from the Family & Youth Services Bureau. https://bit.ly/3LHdg7o
Newsletter or E-Blast
Help youth find what drives them.
This hands-on lesson plan from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help you guide youth in discovering what they love to do. By participating in goal-directed activities, teens will gain important skills and foster positive relationships, which can help prevent them from engaging in risky behaviors. Includes a facilitator's guide, PowerPoint slides, and digital planner.
https://bit.ly/3LHdg7o
Social
This free activity from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help youth in your organization learn the differences between peer influence and peer pressure. https://bit.ly/3wAzSSR
Newsletter or E-Blast
Help youth learn the difference between peer influence and peer pressure.
This engaging lesson can help students test their knowledge about peer norms and correct misperceptions. Youth will work together to identify strategies for recognizing and resisting future peer influence and pressure, including strategies to remind themselves that initial perceptions are not always accurate and to circulate that message among their peers. Brought to you by the Family & Youth Services Bureau, a facilitator's guide, presentation, and quiz are all included.
https://bit.ly/3wAzSSR
Creating Safe Spaces: Facilitator Guide to Trauma-Informed Programming
This facilitator's guide and tools help you create and deliver adolescent health and development programming using a trauma-informed approach.
Toolkit for Engaging Parents and Caregivers in Optimal Health Programming
Connect with and engage parents and caregivers of the youth you serve using this interactive toolkit.
Tips for Virtually Engaging Parents and Caregivers
Use these strategies to virtually connect with parents and caregivers and provide support as they help youth navigate times of stress and change.
Social
Is your organization using a trauma-informed approach? Ensure you are creating safe spaces for youth with this free facilitator's guide from the Family & Youth Services Bureau. https://bit.ly/38DdxuZ
Newsletter or E-Blast
Create safe spaces for youth.
Is your organization using a trauma-informed approach? Use this facilitator's guide from the Family & Youth Services Bureau to ensure you are creating safe spaces for youth. The guide is accompanied by a handout listing national resources for youth participants as well as space for your organization to add community-specific referrals.
https://bit.ly/38DdxuZ
Social
This toolkit from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help you begin to engage parents and caregivers in adolescent health and development programming or expand on your current approach. https://bit.ly/3NxIBe8
Newsletter or E-Blast
Get parents and caregivers involved in health programs.
This toolkit from the Family & Youth Services Bureau is full of strategies to help you engage parents and caregivers in your prevention programing and support them as they create and maintain positive relationships with their adolescents. Planning tips, assessment questions, action planning tools, and a list of specific engagement activities are all included to help you get started with parent engagement or expand your current approach.
https://bit.ly/3NxIBe8
Social
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended families' regular routines. This tip sheet from the Family & Youth Services Bureau provides strategies you can use to reach out to parents virtually and provide them with support. https://bit.ly/3PFS3Oo
Newsletter or E-Blast
Tips for involving parents remotely.
Guidance from parents and caregivers is especially important during times of stress and change, such as the current public health pandemic, which has upended the regular routines of adolescents and families. This tip sheet from the Family & Youth Services Bureau provides strategies you can use to reach out to parents virtually and provide them with support.
https://bit.ly/3PFS3Oo
Creating Inclusive Spaces for Youth: A Facilitator's Guide to Equity and Inclusion in the Classroom
You can advance equity in your work with youth using this interactive guide.
Social
This interactive guide from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help you identify and address implicit biases so you are able to relate to youth participants in an equitable and inclusive manner in the classroom. https://bit.ly/3ATmbRn
Newsletter or E-Blast
Advance equity in the classroom.
This guide describes how implicit bias can affect an educator's behaviors and judgment and unknowingly elicit microaggressions toward specific groups of people. Brought to you by the Family & Youth Services Bureau, it includes interactive activities and checklists for evaluating your current services and programs through an equity lens.
Access resources: https://bit.ly/3ATmbRn
Being Tech-Smart
Encourage youth to think twice about how they use digital technology and the impact it can have on their mental health and safety.
Social
Help young people discover the benefits of using digital technology in a healthy way and avoid the dangers with this free, interactive lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau. https://bit.ly/456hdwk
Newsletter or E-Blast
Help youth become tech smart.
This free, interactive lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau helps you guide youth in discovering the long-term impacts and safety implications of digital technology use. By participating in this lesson, youth will learn how to use digital technology in constructive pursuits and avoid potential dangers.
https://bit.ly/456hdwk
Roller Coaster Relationships, Romance, and Destiny: Media Messages in the Real World
Identifying healthy and unhealthy messages in the media related to sex, dating, and relationships can be difficult for youth. With this guide, you can support them in building healthy skills to navigate media messages.
Social
This free, dynamic lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help youth learn to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy messages shown in the media related to sex, dating, and relationships. https://bit.ly/3ZyWJv5
Newsletter or E-Blast
Help youth overcome the influence of misguided media messages.
Often times, youth base their perceptions of reality on what they see and hear in the media, which are frequently distorted depictions. The Family & Youth Services Bureau has designed this free lesson to encourage youth to base their ideas about sex, dating, and relationships on facts, dispel myths, and identify their own values.
https://bit.ly/3ZyWJv5
Building Healthy Relationships: A Plug and Play Activity for Youth
Help teens develop safe and healthy relationships!
Social
This free, engaging lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help you support youth in forming safe and healthy relationships. https://bit.ly/48Aq1O4
Newsletter or E-Blast
Teach youth how to form safe and healthy relationships.
Use this free lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau to help middle and high schoolers learn how to identify healthy and unhealthy relationship characteristics and cultivate safe, healthy relationships of all types—with friends, romantic partners, family, classmates, teachers, coworkers, and others.
https://bit.ly/48Aq1O4
Mental Health and Well-Being
Young people may not always recognize how their own mental health and well-being affects their quality of life. This guide helps teach youth about self-care, improving their mental health and well-being, and reducing risk-taking behaviors.
Social
This free, interactive lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau provides youth with tools to support their mental health, self-care, and well-being. https://bit.ly/48wyMbL
Newsletter or E-Blast
Support the well-being of youth.
Support youth in identifying their own mental health and well-being needs, including social, emotional, physical, and intellectual/creative needs through this free lesson from the Family & Youth Services Bureau. The lesson also helps youth develop an individualized self-care plan.
https://bit.ly/48wyMbL
Finding My Passion
Help youth discover what they love to do and what gives them a sense of purpose in this hands-on lesson plan.
Social
Guide youth in discovering the things they love to do with this free, hands-on lesson plan from the Family & Youth Services Bureau. https://bit.ly/3LHdg7o
Newsletter or E-Blast
Help youth find what drives them.
This hands-on lesson plan from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help you guide youth in discovering what they love to do. By participating in goal-directed activities, teens will gain important skills and foster positive relationships, which can help prevent them from engaging in risky behaviors. Includes a facilitator's guide, PowerPoint slides, and digital planner.
https://bit.ly/3LHdg7o
Checking Our Reality
Middle and high school students will learn the differences between peer influence and peer pressure with this lesson. Includes a facilitator's guide, quiz activity, and other materials.
Social
This free activity from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help youth in your organization learn the differences between peer influence and peer pressure. https://bit.ly/3wAzSSR
Newsletter or E-Blast
Help youth learn the difference between peer influence and peer pressure.
This engaging lesson can help students test their knowledge about peer norms and correct misperceptions. Youth will work together to identify strategies for recognizing and resisting future peer influence and pressure, including strategies to remind themselves that initial perceptions are not always accurate and to circulate that message among their peers. Brought to you by the Family & Youth Services Bureau, a facilitator's guide, presentation, and quiz are all included.
https://bit.ly/3wAzSSR
Creating Safe Spaces: Facilitator Guide to Trauma-Informed Programming
This facilitator's guide and tools help you create and deliver adolescent health and development programming using a trauma-informed approach.
Social
Is your organization using a trauma-informed approach? Ensure you are creating safe spaces for youth with this free facilitator's guide from the Family & Youth Services Bureau. https://bit.ly/38DdxuZ
Newsletter or E-Blast
Create safe spaces for youth.
Is your organization using a trauma-informed approach? Use this facilitator's guide from the Family & Youth Services Bureau to ensure you are creating safe spaces for youth. The guide is accompanied by a handout listing national resources for youth participants as well as space for your organization to add community-specific referrals.
https://bit.ly/38DdxuZ
Toolkit for Engaging Parents and Caregivers in Optimal Health Programming
Connect with and engage parents and caregivers of the youth you serve using this interactive toolkit.
Social
This toolkit from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help you begin to engage parents and caregivers in adolescent health and development programming or expand on your current approach. https://bit.ly/3NxIBe8
Newsletter or E-Blast
Get parents and caregivers involved in health programs.
This toolkit from the Family & Youth Services Bureau is full of strategies to help you engage parents and caregivers in your prevention programing and support them as they create and maintain positive relationships with their adolescents. Planning tips, assessment questions, action planning tools, and a list of specific engagement activities are all included to help you get started with parent engagement or expand your current approach.
https://bit.ly/3NxIBe8
Tips for Virtually Engaging Parents and Caregivers
Use these strategies to virtually connect with parents and caregivers and provide support as they help youth navigate times of stress and change.
Social
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended families' regular routines. This tip sheet from the Family & Youth Services Bureau provides strategies you can use to reach out to parents virtually and provide them with support. https://bit.ly/3PFS3Oo
Newsletter or E-Blast
Tips for involving parents remotely.
Guidance from parents and caregivers is especially important during times of stress and change, such as the current public health pandemic, which has upended the regular routines of adolescents and families. This tip sheet from the Family & Youth Services Bureau provides strategies you can use to reach out to parents virtually and provide them with support.
https://bit.ly/3PFS3Oo
Creating Inclusive Spaces for Youth: A Facilitator's Guide to Equity and Inclusion in the Classroom
You can advance equity in your work with youth using this interactive guide.
Social
This interactive guide from the Family & Youth Services Bureau can help you identify and address implicit biases so you are able to relate to youth participants in an equitable and inclusive manner in the classroom. https://bit.ly/3ATmbRn
Newsletter or E-Blast
Advance equity in the classroom.
This guide describes how implicit bias can affect an educator's behaviors and judgment and unknowingly elicit microaggressions toward specific groups of people. Brought to you by the Family & Youth Services Bureau, it includes interactive activities and checklists for evaluating your current services and programs through an equity lens.
Access resources: https://bit.ly/3ATmbRn