Professional Development Resources
Professional Organizations
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) An alliance of five national associations, six district associations, and a research consortium that supports healthy lifestyles through high-quality programs:
American School Health Association (ASHA) Multidisciplinary organization to protect and promote the health and well-being of children and youth through coordinated school health programs.
Find your state or regional version of these national organizations and get involved.
Recognizing and Helping Teens With Eating Disorders
Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health Resources
Children's and Adolescents' Mental Health Like adults, children and adolescents can have mental health disorders that interfere with the way they think, feel, and act. Mental health influences the ways individuals look at themselves, their lives, and others in their lives. Like physical health, mental health is important at every stage of life.
Child, Adolescent and Family Branch The Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch of the Federal Center for Mental Health Services promotes and ensures that the mental health needs of children and their families are met within the context of community-based systems of care. Systems of care are developed on the premise that the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and their families can be met within their home, school, and community environments.
Caring for Every Child's Mental Health Systems of Care, the Caring for Every Child's Mental Health communications campaign is a public information and education program.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network The mission of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States. This site includes an article on school planning for disasters.
Youth Violence Prevention The CMHS initiative on school violence focuses on the collective involvement of families, communities, and schools to build resiliency to disruptive behavior disorders.
Make Time to Listen, Take Time to Talk The campaign is part of the CMHS School Violence Prevention Initiative and is designed to provide practical guidance to parents and caregivers about "how to" create time to listen and take time to talk with their children.
Listening Dads Are Champs Children whose fathers are highly involved with them in a positive way do better in school, demonstrate better psychological well-being and lower levels of delinquency, and ultimately attain higher levels of education and economic self-sufficiency.
Family Guide To Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy and Drug Free A public education Web site, developed to support the efforts of parents and other caring adults to promote mental health and prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs among 7- to 18-year-olds.
Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General This Surgeon General's report seeks to focus on action steps that all Americans can take to help address the problem, and continue to build a legacy of health and safety for our young people and the Nation as a whole.
Publications on Children and Families Free information from the Center for Mental Health Services about children and families.
Flu Prevention Teaching Strategies
CDC TV: H1N1: In this video, CDC influenza expert Joseph Bresee, M.D., describes how to recognize the signs and symptoms of the H1N1 virus (swine flu), including how it is transmitted, appropriate medicines for treatment, and steps to take to prevent or treat illness.
CDC TV: Put Your Hands Together: Scientists warn that people are not washing their hands often or well enough and may transmit up to 80 percent of all infections by their hands. From doorknobs to animals to food, harmful germs can live on almost everything. This video demonstrates the importance of hand washing to help stop the spread of infection and stay healthy.
H1N1 Lesson Plan: This lesson plan, created especially for students in grades 10 through 12, offers background information, activities, and critical analysis of the H1N1 virus. Students can learn about the flu, causes of the flu, participate in a class simulation, learn about vaccines, and much more. Correlations to national standards are provided.
The Germinator: In this PBS game, students learn the basics of infectious disease. Students learn how germs enter the body and the immune system through an animated game.
A Communication Toolkit for Schools: This Web site provides basic information and communication resources to help school administrators implement recommendations from the CDC's Guidance for State and Local Public Health Officials and School Administrators for School (K–12) Responses to Influenza during the 2009–2010 School Year.
FluView: This Web site provides a weekly CDC analysis and report of information about influenza disease activity in the United States.
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