This resource contains free resources on trauma-informed practices and explores the scope of the problem, potential solutions, and youth activism on the issue of gun violence in the United States.
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YOUTH-CAN Community Violence Training Materials
This toolkit provides information on preventing and addressing community violence and its effects on developing youth and families.
County Funding Opportunities to Support Community Members Experiencing a Behavioral Health Crisis
The National Association of Counties (NACo) and the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHDD) has summarized a list of funding opportunities to help county officials build a behavioral health crisis continuum of care.
Community-Based Violence Prevention Partnership Toolkit
This Toolkit is a promising practices guide for faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs) that seek to reduce violence in Indianapolis through outreach activities, mentorship approaches, and case management techniques. The Toolkit is designed to serve as a resource to assist the development and implementation of violence prevention and intervention efforts. A collection of strategies is reported and promising practices are identified. Available monitoring or measurement tools affiliated with these strategies are inventoried and shared. Details on the lessons learned from these types of interventions – those that are deemed effective, as well as those that have been found to be ineffective – are also presented.
Engaging Your Community: A Toolkit for Partnership, Collaboration, and Action
This toolkit is intended to assist organizations in the adolescent pregnancy prevention and parenting field with cultivating strategic partnerships, implementing innovative outreach strategies, and developing robust communications that target the diverse organizations and populations in their communities. The Toolkit offers guidance for performing self-assessments of current partnership and outreach strategies that organizations are using to collaborate with and engage agencies and individuals in their communities. The Toolkit also offers tools for building on these strategies to boost organizational capacity.
Fostering Partnerships for Community Engagement Community Voice and Power Sharing Guidebook
This toolkit is intended for researchers, policymakers, direct service providers, or technical assistance providers interested in finding and building relationships with partners to facilitate community-engaged work.
Strategic Financing Toolkit for Tested, Effective Programs
This Annie E. Casey Foundation toolkit outlines a five-step strategic finance planning process geared toward supporting programs that serve children and families. It aims to help public and community leaders work together to examine what they want to finance, how their current investments align with their financing goals, and which strategies can help them achieve these goals.
A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration
From Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, this tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well. It encourages centering racial equity and community voice within the context of data integration and use — and for the benefit of the public good.
Resources for Responding to School Shootings and Violence
This collection of resources offers support following school shootings and violence in four main categories: initial crisis response, district and administrator resources, supporting students, and supporting educators, caregivers, and responders.
Integrating Social and Emotional Learning Throughout the School System: A Compendium of Resources for District Leaders
This compendium provides resources for district leaders to consider as they seek to implement evidence-based supports to ensure social and emotional learning (SEL) is fully integrated into the educational experience of their students, families, staff, and community. While targeted to the district level, many of these resources may be useful to school leaders as well.
Centering Adaptive and Relational Elements of Restorative Practices for Implementation Success
This guide provides educators, school leaders, and district administrators with the strategies, tools, and structural supports they need to successfully implement restorative practices and transform their schools into strong communities with meaningful relationships, a sense of authentic belonging, and equitable whole-person outcomes.
Data Governance Toolkit: A Guide to Implementing Data Governance in Nonprofits
Guiding non-profit organizations through implementing Data Governance, keeping in mind the changing IT landscape, enterprise architecture, and program deliverables.
Organizational Structure: An Overview
Learn how to develop a framework that gives members clear guidelines on building organizational structure, and keeping the organization functional.
Developing an Ongoing Board of Directors
Learn how to develop an ongoing Board of Directors that helps focus your organization and ensures that its mission continues to be carried out.
Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
The Community Tool Box toolkit provides guidance for creating a partnership among different organizations to address a common goal.
Community Planning Toolkit: Community Engagement (UK)
The toolkit provides guidance on the issues to consider when planning and designing community engagement. It focuses on quality and effectiveness, process planning, and designing engagement tailored to the particular issue, level of participation to be achieved, timeframe, and range of shareholders affected.
Developing a Plan for Communication
Learn how to develop a plan for communication to raise awareness about community issues and your organization’s accomplishments.
Tools for Changing the Narrative About Male Survivors of Violence
The Healing Justice Alliance toolkit contains hands-on worksheets for members of your organization with limited time or resources—focus your energies on key priority areas. Includes tools for working with the news media.
Changing the discourse about violence: A strategic communications toolkit
Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) developed this toolkit to help practitioners, advocates, residents, and others frame violence from a community perspective and harness the power of the media to achieve change. This toolkit is designed to allow organizations involved in all aspects of violence prevention—regardless of experience and organizational capacity—to strengthen their strategic communication.