This Page under construction. If you know of a link that would be helpful on this page, contact County Youth Services.

General Links

Tompkins County Legislature Contact Information

ACT For Youth - A project of the New York State Department of Health, and was developed in cooperation with the Partners for Children, a collaboration of public and private sector organizations committed to improving the health and education of children and adolescents throughout New York State.

Community Coalition for Healthy Youth (formerly Drug Task Force, Community Alcohol and Drug Coalition) - An alliance between schools, government and neighborhoods working to develop strategies to reduce alcohol and other substance abuse in Ithaca and Tompkins County

Research and Best Practices

http://www.ocfs.state.ny.us/main/sppd/eff_practices/ - This website from New York Office of Children and Family Services has helpful information about developing program outcomes as well as identifying effective programs.

http://www.actforyouth.net - This web site has lots of links to all kinds of great Youth Development resources

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ - Federal Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention summaries of studies, program evaluations and model resources

http://www.childtrends.org/ - Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center striving to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis.  

http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov/  - Programs to reduce substance abuse & other risk behaviors

Effective Prevention Can Save Money - (PDF file) Washington State Institute for Public Policy report on how some well implemented prevention and early intervention programs for youth can achieve more benefits than costs.