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Links to Evidence-based Best Practices and Programs for Community Youth Development

Community Guide to Helping America's Youth
The Community Guide to Helping America's Youth helps caring adults connect with the youth in their families, schools and communities. It encourages Americans to make an even bigger difference by forming partnerships to implement programs that have been proven to help youth. Community Guide to Helping America's Youth is an online tool that helps communities form effective partnerships, assess community resources, and identify proven programs that support positive youth development.
This web-based guide is available at  http://guide.helpingamericasyouth.gov

• The Community Guide includes examples of how individuals can "Get Connected" with youth in families, schools and communities.
• The Community Guide includes a Community Assessment Guide that offers communities a step-by-step approach for learning more about their community, including where youth-related problems occur, which youth and families are most affected by those problems, and what local resources and assets the community can use to address those problems.
• The Community Guide includes a Community Resource Inventory with which localities can use to identify and track partners and programs that are already at work in their community.
• The Community Guide includes a Program Tool that provides information about promising and proven effective interventions to prevent adolescent risky behaviors and promote positive youth development.
• The Community Guide to Helping America's Youth Reflects the Most Up-to-Date Research on Youth Development and Effective Programs. A coalition of experts from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, Education, Agriculture, Labor, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development; the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and the Corporation for National and Community Service developed the guide.

Model Programs Guide (MPG)
The MPG is an easy-to-use informational resource tool that offers a database of scientifically proven programs to address a variety of youth problems, including the following: delinquency; violence; youth gang involvement; alcohol, tobacco, and drug use; academic difficulties; family functioning; trauma exposure; sexual activity/exploitation; and mental health issues. Sponsor Agency: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Online at: http://www.dsgonline.com/mpg2.5/mpg_index.htm

National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
The NREPP is a searchable online registry of mental health and substance abuse interventions for youth and other populations that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers. Sponsor Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Online at: http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/index.htm