Specific Research

Advancing Comprehensive School Mental Health
Audience: Educator Category: Specific Research Locality: National ISD/RESA: Oakland County ISD Profit Status: Non-Profit

This report offers collective insight and guidance to local communities and states to advance comprehensive school mental health systems. Contents were informed by examination of national best practices and performance standards, local and state exemplars,and recommendations provided by federal/national, state, local and private leaders.

Clare-Gladwin County Resource Hub
Audience: Parent/Caregiver Student Educator Category: Whole Child Specific Research Locality: Clare Gladwin ISD/RESA: Clare-Gladwin RESD
Communities that Care of Marinette and Menominee Counties
Audience: Parent/Caregiver Educator Category: Community Involvement Specific Research Locality: Menominee ISD/RESA: Menominee County ISD Profit Status: Non-Profit
Our mission is to promote healthy lifestyles and choices throughout our communities to benefit our youth and their families. We do this by focusing on adolescent substance use including alcohol, tobacco products, marijuana and prescription drug use by reducing youth and community risk factors, and building protective factors.
Community Schools Data Hub
Audience: Educator Category: Specific Research Locality: National Profit Status: Non-Profit

Use the ROI App for Community Schools Coordinators to maximize usefulness of data, increase efficiency and consistency in data collection processes, increase accuracy and credibility in data reporting, and elevate your ongoing evaluation efforts.

Creating Safe Schools for Sexual Minority Youth
Audience: Educator Category: Specific Research Locality: State ISD/RESA: Muskegon Area ISD Profit Status: Non-Profit

Many educators and administrators in school districts throughout Michigan have requested information and technical assistance to help them create school environments that are physically and emotionally safe for all students, including sexual minority students (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning). Schools throughout Michigan and the nation have struggled to develop policies and train staff and students to support safe and bully-free environments that are conducive to students learning. This project was initiated as a direct response to school district requests.

Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)
Audience: Educator Category: Specific Research Type: Training Locality: National ISD/RESA: Northwest Education Services Profit Status: For-Profit
CPI programs equip staff with crisis intervention and de-escalation skills that reduce challenging behavior and help prevent future incidents.
Developmental Assets Framework
Audience: Parent/Caregiver Student Educator Category: Specific Research Locality: National ISD/RESA: Clare-Gladwin RESD Profit Status: Non-Profit

Grounded in extensive research in youth development, resiliency, and prevention, Developmental Assets are the 40 positive supports and strengths that young people need to succeed.

First Educational Resources - Garth Larson
Audience: Educator Category: Specific Research Type: Training Locality: National ISD/RESA: Marquette-Alger RESA Profit Status: For-Profit
Customized K-12 Professional Development and Resources
Great Lakes Surf Project (water safety)
Audience: Parent/Caregiver Student Educator Category: Specific Research Locality: State ISD/RESA: Muskegon Area ISD Profit Status: Non-Profit
Mission is to eradicate drownings by being the leader of Great Lakes water safety by providing training, public preparedness, and public awareness.
IES: What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
Audience: Educator Category: Specific Research Locality: National Profit Status: Non-Profit

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education. We are independent and non-partisan. Our mission is to provide scientific evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and to share this information in formats that are useful and accessible to educators, parents, policymakers, researchers, and the public. Search the WWC to find the information you need to make evidence-based decisions in your classrooms and schools.