Child and Family/Advocacy Resources

This page provides resources developed and submitted by members related to child and family policy and practice. See the following for handouts with childrearing tips, curriculum guides on child maltreatment, and resources for evidence-based practice.

• March 2024: Reducing risk for substance use problems among youth with trauma histories
• April 2024: Bullying and peer victimization
• May 2024: Diagnostic systems
• June 2024: Addressing mental health needs among detained youth
• July 2024: School start times
• August 2024: Spanking harms children
• September 2024: Preventing youth suicide
• October 2024: Unaddressed trauma of family separations and Unaccompanied minors entering the US

• All Parents of Preschoolers Need Support (PDF, 16.5KB)opens in new window
  Talking with others about the difficulties of managing a young child helps to relieve stress because it provides you with needed support.

• Discipline with Preschoolers (PDF, 24.3KB)opens in new window
  The purpose of discipline is to teach your child how to behave, so that your child will have behavior that is kind and cooperative with others.

• Kids and Stress: Understanding Your Child's Emotions (PDF, 93.9KB)opens in new window
  Children and parents don't show their feelings in the same ways when something stressful happens.

• Parents Are Role Models (PDF, 44.7KB)opens in new window
  Children learn good and bad behaviors by watching and listening and imitating their parents.

• APA Government Relations: APA website on advocating for psychology at the federal level.
• Register for Action Alerts: APA's Federal Action Network's current action alerts for updates on important legislative issues critical to psychology.
• University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortiumopens in new window: Seeks to inform social policy that optimizes child and family well-being.
• National Prevention Science Coalitionopens in new window to support evidence-based prevention policy.
• CDC Preventing Youth Violenceopens in new window and CDC Youth Violence Preventionopens in new window and CDC's VetoViolenceopens in new window.
• Early childhood advocacy from the Ounceopens in new window from the Ounce of Prevention Fund.
• Children & Families at the Center: Policy Ideas for Communities, States and the New Administration (PDF, 1MB)opens in new window from the Aspen Institute.
• Frameworks Instituteopens in new window: Framing the conversations on policy.
• National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Forum on Promoting Children’s Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Health (C-CAB)opens in new window
• Coalition for Unleashing the Power of Preventionopens in new window
• Children & Families at the Center: Policy Ideas for Communities, States and the New Administration (PDF, 1MB)opens in new window from the Aspen Instituteopens in new window.

• APA Division 53 (Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment for Children and Adolescentsopens in new window)

• APA's policy statements and resolutions related to children, youth and families

• Child Welfare Information Gatewayopens in new window, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  This website provides the ability to look up child welfare policies and laws by state.

• Helpful Resources for Return to In-Person School and Work (July 2021) (PDF, 86KB)opens in new window

• Prevention training modules developed by the Coalition for Behavioral Healthopens in new window

• Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)opens in new window

• InfoAboutKids.orgopens in new window
  This website highlights science-based information for people who care for or work with children.

• WHO clinical guidelines: "Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused"opens in new window