State/Regional Departments

State Departments of Public Health
http://www.cdc.gov/other.htm
To access this list, scroll down to "State and Local Health Departments" on the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention's website.

State Departments of Education
http://www.ed.gov/Programs/bastmp/SEA.htm
This site, maintained by the Education Resources Organization Directory, contains addresses and contact information for state education agencies across the United States.

State Juvenile Justice Resources
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/resources/asp/search_states.asp
This site, maintained by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, can be searched by category (e.g., delinquency prevention or law enforcement) or by state.

State Police Departments
http://www.statetroopersdirectory.com/#Menu
These sites contain a wealth of information, including accident
and arrest reports.

State Liquor Control Boards
http://www.atf.treas.gov/alcohol/info/faq/subpages/lcb.htm
Many of these websites contain useful information related to
alcohol licensing and control, such as licensing criteria, commonly cited violations,
and current initiatives to prevent underage drinking.

Regional Offices of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/whatis/regions/Index.cfm?Fitting=No
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has ten regional offices that work on the agency's mission to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic related healthcare and other economic costs. Each regional office provides numerous services to its states, including technical assistance, promoting legislation, administering grant fund programs, and assisting in coalition building.

U.S. State and Local Gateway
http://www.statelocal.gov/index.html
This website was developed to give state and local government officials and employees easy access to federal information. Information is organized by topic (e.g., administrative management, families/children) and type (e.g., funding, technical assistance) with separate sections focusing on current issues and hot links.

State and Local Government on the Net
http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm
This site contains a frequently updated directory of links to government-sponsored and controlled resources on the Internet.

Drug Prevention and School Safety Resource Centers

Arizona Prevention Resource Center
http://www.asu.edu/aprc/
This resource center, comprised of nearly 200 volunteer prevention specialists statewide, provides technical assistance on a variety of prevention and health promotion issues through training, information dissemination, and program evaluation.

California Safe Schools and Violence Prevention Office
http://www.cde.ca.gov/spbranch/safety/
This site contains grant information, conference and training schedules, and links to an extensive list of online resources.

Center for Prevention Research
http://www.uky.edu/RGS/PreventionResearch/
This site, developed by the University of Kentucky Center for Prevention Research, contains the 1999 and 2001 Youth Risk Behavior Survey reports, information on the forthcoming survey, and the 2000 School Health Education Profiles.

Center for Substance Abuse Research
http://www.cesar.umd.edu/
Developed by the University of Maryland, this site includes a wealth of useful information on topics ranging from federal drug control policy to prevention and treatment.

Connecticut Clearninghouse
http://www.ctclearinghouse.org/
This statewide resource center provides information about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and related health and wellness issues.

Colorado Safe Communitities -- Safe Schools
http://www.colorado.edu/
UCB/Research/cspv/safeschools/index.html
The Safe Communities-Safe Schools Initiative launched by The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at the University of Colorado provides information and technical assistance designed to help school communities in Colorado develop individualized safe school plans.

Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association
http://www.fadaa.org/
The Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association is a non-profit, membership organization representing 89 community-based substance abuse treatment and prevention agencies throughout Florida. Its primary goals are advocacy, professional development, communications, and information dissemination.

Florida Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools
http://www.unf.edu/dept/fie/sdfs
The Safe, Disciplined and Drug Free Schools (SDDFS) Project provides support to the Florida Department of Education, schools, and school districts in the form of training, publications, and technical assistance.

Indiana Prevention Resource Center
http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/
Located at Indiana University, this center serves as a statewide clearinghouse for prevention technical assistance and information about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs for the State of Indiana. It is Indiana's officially designated RADAR Network (Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource Network) State Center.

Indiana School Safety Specialist Academy
http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/isssa/welcome.html
The Indiana Department of Education provides to every public and accredited non-public school district a certified training program for school safety specialists.

Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center
http://isaic.cedar-rapids.lib.ia.us/
The mission of the Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center & Clearinghouse (ISAIC) is to support education, prevention, and treatment efforts in Iowa, through timely access to accurate information, appropriate technology, and a well-trained staff. Their website contains several online databases.

Kentucky Center for School Safety
http://www.kysafeschools.org/
The Center for School Safety (CSS), operated by a consortium of three state universities (Eastern Kentucky University, University of Kentucky, and Murray State University), provides a clearinghouse of information and materials concerning school violence prevention, as well as technical assistance and program development to schools, justice/law enforcement agencies, and communities.

Maine Office of Substance Abuse
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/osa/
This site contains information about substance abuse prevention (including the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Program) and treatment, selected statistics, reports, and directories, and a calendar of upcoming events.

Massachusetts Regional Prevention Centers
http://www.state.ma.us/dph/mpc/prevctr.htm
Comprised of ten regional centers, this network offers consultation services, training, and education in the areas of public health and community development.

Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program QuitNet
http://www.quitnet.com/qn_main.jtml
This site contains quitting guides and tools, a national directory of smoking cessation programs, a pharmaceutical guide, daily tobacco news updates, and links to additional information.

Minnesota Prevention Resource Center
http://www.wearemrc.org/
This site contains an effective prevention programs database created by the Central CAPT.

Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Safe and Orderly Schools
http://www.emprc.org/index.html
This site contains information about the Mississippi Institute for School Safety Training, the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) Crisis/Disaster Response Team, comprehensive school safety, and the Mississippi Institute For School Safety Threat Assessment Protocol.

Missouri Center for Safe Schools
http://education.umkc.edu/safe-school/who/index.asp
Located at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, this center promotes safe and orderly schools by providing assistance in the identification of resources and by facilitating networking of schools across Missouri as they develop effective ways of dealing with violence and other safety related problems.

Nebraska Council to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Abuse
http://www.prevlink.org/
The Alcohol and Drug Information Clearinghouse provides information on issues relating to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, including: an up-to-date collection of prevention resources; information on programs, publications, and referrals; networking; presentations and resource exhibits; and hundreds of complimentary resources printed in the English and Spanish.

New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
http://www.oasas.state.ny.us/
The office is dedicated to serving the general public and the service provider community with news and information about alcoholism, substance abuse, and addiction services in New York State.

New York State Center for School Safety
http://www.mhric.org/scss/
The primary activities of this center include collaborating with state agencies to assist schools in creating safe learning environments, providing school safety resources, and assisting in the collection, assessment, and dissemination of successful school safety programs and strategies.

North Carolina Center for the Prevention of School Violence
http://www.ncsu.edu/cpsv/
The mission of the Center is to raise awareness about the seriousness of school violence and act as a resource of information, program assistance, and research about school violence prevention.

North Carolina Governor's Instititute on Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Inc.
http://www.governorsinstitute.org
This agency is dedicated to promoting health and well-being by fostering improved education, research, and communication among health care professionals and their communities regarding the impact of, response to, and prevention of alcohol and other drug use.

Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services
http://www.state.oh.us/ada/main.html
This department is dedicated to promoting, assisting in developing, and coordinating educational programs and research to prevent alcohol and drug addiction.

Ohio Prevention and Education Resource Center (OPERC)
http://www.uc.edu/operc/ (put in new link)
OPERC's mission is to serve as the state center for information, training, and technical assistance about the best practices for creating safe and drug-free schools and communities.

Ohio Safe Schools Center
http://www.uc.edu/safeschools/
The Ohio Safe Schools Center works cooperatively with state departments and organizations to localize information about best practices in comprehensive school safety planning to the district and building levels.

Oregon Partnership
http://www.orpartnership.org/
The Oregon Partnership provides and supports a variety of drug and alcohol prevention education and treatment referral services, including a HelpLine, resource library, and community tools.

Pennsylvania Center for Safe Schools
http://www.center-school.org/viol_prev/css/
This center seeks creative and effective solutions to problems that disrupt the educational process and affect school safety. Training, technical assistance, and a clearinghouse of video and print materials are available through the Center to help schools identify and implement effective programs and practices. The Center also maintains a database of resources available to assist school districts.

Pennsylvania Associate RADAR Network Centers
http://www.padohric.org/RADAR.HTM
Every State and Territory in the United States has one designated Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource (RADAR) Network Center. Pennsylvania has 38 associate centers that provide information about both local and national initiatives to combat substance abuse.

Project ADAPT: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team
http://web.missouri.edu/~adaptwww/
This site, created and maintained by the University of Missouri-Columbia, describes a variety of innovative substance abuse prevention programs.

Rutgers Center for Alcohol Studies
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cas2/
This site contains an extensive collection of both online and print resources.

Tennessee School Safety Center
http://www.state.tn.us/education/tssc.htm
This center is dedicated to supporting schools and communities in their efforts to provide a safe and disciplined learning environment for Tennessee students. It assists school systems in developing school safety and emergency preparedness plans through training and technical assistance, and is in the process of developing a statewide data collection system that will monitor public, student and school personnel perceptions of fear or actual threats of violence in schools.

Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
http://www.tcada.state.tx.us/
This commission is dedicated to ensuring that Texans have access to effective and efficient substance abuse services. Primary activities include monitoring drug trends in Texas, analyzing drug-related data, and conducting surveys related to substance abuse and gambling.

Texas School Safety Center
http://www.txssc.swt.edu/
The product of a collaborative effort of the Governor's Office, Criminal Justice Division, and Southwest Texas State University, this center provides statewide training and technical assistance to reduce youth violence and promote safety.

Virginia Center for School Safety
http://www.virginiaschoolsafety.com/
The Center, located at the Department of Criminal Justice Services, provides training and information regarding current school safety concerns for Virginia public school personnel; maintains and disseminates information on effective school safety initiatives; and collects, analyzes, and disseminates various Virginia school safety data, including school safety audit information, collected by the Department.

Washington Safe and Drug-free Schools
http://www.k12.wa.us/safedrugfree/
This site contains an extensive list of online resources, including a section on data, reserarch, evaluation, and best practices.

Washington State Substance Abuse Coalition (WSSAC)
http://www.halcyon.com/wssac/
This online clearinghouse provides information on issues relating to alcohol and other drugs. As the State's designated Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource (RADAR) Network Center, WSSAC also links local communities with clearinghouses and information centers worldwide.

Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources
http://www.uhs.wisc.edu/wch/
Located within the University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this clearinghouse offers prevention-related information, training, publications, and program models to non-profit, private and public sector organizations and educators throughout Wisconsin

Prevention Organizations with State Data

Connect for Kids State Pages
http://www.connectforkids.org/homepage1576/index.html
This multimedia project of the Benton Foundation features links to state-by state analyses of children and youth statistics and to a variety of additional sources of information about relevant state data.

State Data Resources from CSAP's Decision Support System
http://www.preventiondss.org
To access these resources, click on the "Assess Needs" link, then scroll down to "Links to Online Resources."

State Profiles from the National Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPTs)
The primary mission of the CAPT system is to bring research to practice by assisting states, jurisdictions, and community-based organizations in the application of the latest research-based knowledge to their substance abuse prevention programs, practices, and policies. The CAPTs are divided into six regions. Each regional website includes profiles for the states in its region.

Western CAPT State Profiles
http://www.unr.edu/westcapt/akinfo.html
Includes AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, ND, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY, American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, and Palau

Border CAPT State Profiles
http://www.usmbha.org/border.htm
Includes border areas of the United States and Mexico

Central CAPT State Profiles
http://www.ccapt.org/captmap.html
Includes ND, SD, MN, IA, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, WV, and Red Lake Nation

Southwest CAPT State Profiles
http://www.swcapt.org/about.html
Includes CO, NE, NM, OK, TX, KS, MO, AR, and LA

Northeast CAPT State Profiles
http://www.northeastcapt.org/states/
Includes CT, DE, MD, ME, NH, NY, NJ, PA, RI, and VT

Southeast CAPT State Profiles
http://www.swcapt.org/about.html
Includes AL, DC, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, VI, and PR

National Education, Health, and Safety Data

National Youth Data

Monitoring the Future
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/
Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, this is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Each year, a total of some 50,000 eighth, tenth and twelfth grade students are surveyed (twelfth graders since 1975, and eighth and tenth graders since 1991). Findings from the 1999 survey are summarized in Monitoring the Future: National Results on Adolescent Drug Use, Overview of Key Findings.

National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth/
This school-based study of the health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 -12 is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and 17 other federal agencies. It has been designed to explore the causes of these behaviors, with an emphasis on the influence of social context. Finding from the study are included in the Capitol Hill briefing Protecting Adolescents from Risk.

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm
Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in collaboration with federal, state, and private sector partners, this system provides information about the prevalence of risk behaviors among young people at the national, state, and local levels in order to more effectively target and improve health programs. Findings from the 1999 survey are summarized in Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States, 1999. You can also obtain Youth99, a free CD-ROM that provides access to six years of YRBSS summary data.

National School Data

Fast Response Survey System: Principal/School Disciplinarian Survey on School Violence
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/ This survey collects and reports data on key education issues at the elementary and secondary level. It was designed to meet the data needs of USED analysts, planners, and decision-makers when information could not be quickly collected through traditional surveys from the National Center for Education Statistics. Findings from the Principal/School Disciplinarian Survey on School Violence are summarized in Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996-97.

School-Associated Violence Death Study
This study, conducted by the CDC in conjunction with the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, seeks to estimate the rate, describe the epidemiology, and identify potential risk factors and common features of school-associated violent deaths in the United States. For more information, contact Mark Anderson at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (phone: [404] 488-4762; e-mail: mea6@cdc.gov).

School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey
This survey was co-designed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics to collect additional information about school-related victimization to inform decision-making by policy-makers, academic researchers, and practitioners. For information, contact Kathryn Chandler at NCES (phone: [202] 502-7326; e-mail: Kathryn_Chandler@ed.gov).

National Household Data

National Crime Victimization Survey
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm
Administered for the Bureau of Justice Statistics by the Bureau of the Census, this survey is the nation's primary source of information on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization, including crimes both reported and not reported to the police.

National Household Education Survey
http://nces.ed.gov/nhes/
Developed by the National Center for Education Statistics, this survey addresses a wide range of education-related issues. It provides descriptive data on the educational activities of the U.S. population and offers policy-makers, researchers, and educators a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. In 1993, the study focused on school safety and discipline.

National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
http://www.health.org/govstudy/bkd376/
Developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, this is the nation's primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the United States. Findings from the 1999 survey are summarized in Full Report: 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse.

U.S. Census
www.census.gov
The U.S. Census collects national, state, and local data that documents population, race/ethnicity, age, income, education, number of children, etc.

Additional Reports of National Education, Health, and Safety Data

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2000
http://www.childstats.gov/ac2000/ac00.asp
This is the fourth annual report prepared by the Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics on the condition of children in the United States. Included are eight contextual measures that describe the changing population, family characteristics, and context in which children are living and 23 indicators of well-being in the areas of economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.

The DAWN Report of Club Drugs
http://www.samhsa.gov/oas/clubdrug.pdf
This report from the Drug Abuse Warning Network was prepared in response to request from the media, drug surveillance organizations, and the scientific community for information about and national estimates of drugs associated with dance clubs and "raves."

Encyclopedia of ED Stats
http://nces.ed.gov/edstats/
The Encyclopedia of ED Stats brings together data from several National Center for Education Statistics sources, including The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics, and Youth Indicators.

Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2000
http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/crime2000/
This report, the third in a series of annual reports on school crime and safety from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics, presents the latest available data on school crime and student safety. It synthesizes information from a variety of independent data sources from federal departments and agencies, including the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth, 1999
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/99trends/index.htm
This is the fourth edition of an annual report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on trends in the well-being of our nation's children and youth. The report presents recent and reliable estimates on more than 90 indicators of well-being. It is intended to provide the policy community, the media, and all interested citizens with an accessible overview of data describing the condition of children in the United States.

Federal Data Collection/Reporting Agencies

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice and the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

Childstats.gov: The Official Website of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
http://www.childstats.gov/
This site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.

The Healthy People 2010 Database
http://198.246.96.90/hp2010/INDEX.HTM
Developed by staff of the division of Health Promotion Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics, this interactive database system contains the most recent monitoring data for tracking Healthy People 2010. National and some State data are included for all the objectives and subgroups identified in the Healthy People 2010: Objectives for Improving Health.

Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
This site contains U.S. crime statistics compiled annually, as well as guidelines for data collection and analyses of potential methodological and reporting difficulties.

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
This site, which offers access to statistics collected and published by more than seventy Federal agencies, can be searched by both program/subject area and agency, and allows for profiling by state, county, Federal judicial district, or congressional district.

National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations. An electronic catalog offers numerous search options and a Quick Tables and Figures tool provides tables and figures based on your search criteria.

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NCHS data systems include data on vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care. These data are used by policymakers in Congress and the Administration, by medical researchers, and by others in the health community

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/
The research and evaluation section of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) website contains information on a variety of projects and initiatives dealing with behaviors and attitudes in highway safety. Program efforts are focused on alcohol-impaired driving, drug-impaired driving, occupant protection (including child safety seats), speed and aggressive driving, pedestrian and bicyclist safety, motorcyclist safety, older driver safety, improving emergency medical services, drowsy driving, and new driver safety.

U.S. Census Bureau's American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
This site contains population, housing, economic, and geographic data and the federal, state, and county levels, including demographic profiles, tables, and rankings, comparisons, and summaries.

WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
WISQARS™ (pronounced "whiskers") is an interactive system that provides injury-related mortality data necessary for making informed public health decisions. The site contains Injury Mortality Reports, useful for determining injury deaths and death rates for specific external causes of injuries, as well as Leading Causes of Death Reports, useful for determining the number of injury-related deaths relative to the number of other leading causes of death in the United States or in individual states.

General Websites of Interest

Building a Successful Prevention Program
http://www.open.org/~westcapt/
This site, developed and maintained by the Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (Western CAPT), offers a seven-step model for prevention that begins with Community Readiness and Mobilization and proceeds to Needs Assessment, Prioritizing, Resource Assessment, Targeting Efforts, Best Practices, and Evaluation.

CSAP's Decision Support System for Substance Abuse Prevention
http://www.preventiondss.org
This site also presents a seven-step model for prevention, based on CSAP's logic model for strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of prevention programs. The logic model is presented as a circular (recursive) process beginning at Assess Needs and progressing through Develop Capacity, Select Programs, Implement Programs, Evaluate Programs, Report Programs, and Get Technical Assistance and Training.

DIADS Assessment Drug Information and Decision Support
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/diads/diads.html
Developed by the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University, this brief assessment tool is designed to help prevention planners develop and implement comprehensive programs that will work in their schools. By assessing what a school is currently doing to prevent drug abuse and levels of support for these activities, DIADS can determine a given program's chance of success.