By promoting positive behaviors and helping youth build skills, we can support youth in becoming healthy and accomplished adolescents and young adults. This bundle of issues provides a comprehensive look at positive youth development, youth leadership, and engaging youth in after school programs.

Adolescents have high rates of both suicide and non-suicidal self-injury. While self-injury is not a suicide attempt (and vice versa), the behaviors have a complex relationship. At the same time, many people who work with youth have difficulty distinguishing between the two. This bundle includes information specifically about suicide and self-injury, so that those who work with youth will be better able to provide prevention and intervention, as well as support youth and their families through these difficult times.

By understanding how stress impacts youth, their coping mechanisms, and decision-making processes we can better support them along their life course. This bundle of issues examines the relationship between high levels of teen stress and increased problem behaviors, looks at how youth cope with stressful events, and then explores the processes they use to make decisions.

The shame and stigma associated with crime and prison means that many youth experiencing parental incarceration keep it a secret and do not receive the support they need. There is currently a lack of resources for those people who work with these youth (either knowingly or unknowingly) which provide an understanding of this stressful period, or give strategies for supporting these youth and families. This Resource Kit fills that gap.

Receive over 9 years worth of research and practical information for one low price! This amazing collection of issues from The Prevention Researcher includes all issues published from February 2002 through April 2011, three special 3-ring binders to store your collection, plus the video DVD: Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars.

The majority of youth experience some form of victimization, whether through bullying, child maltreatment, sexual assault, or some other form of violence. This bundle of seven issues from The Prevention Researcher highlights many types of victimization that youth experience. Additionally, these issues explore how victimization is interrelated and how it relates to youth violence.

Many of the obstacles which youth face stem from family challenges or a family crisis. The Youth & Families Bundle explores how youth are impacted by these family struggles and how adults who work with them can provide support.