Summit County Cares
www.summitcares.org
Summit CARES – your pathway to find services, gain knowledge and make connections!
Parents: The Anti-Drug
www.antidrug.com
This is a great resource for parents who are looking to raise healthy and drug-free youth! The website includes information on different drugs, tips on parenting, action guides for if you suspect your teen is using and more.
Search Institute
www.search-institute.org
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates and communicates new knowledge, and brings together community, state, and national leaders.
Connect For Kids
www.connectforkids.org/
Connect for Kids, an award-winning multimedia project, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. The Web site offers a place on the Internet for adults—parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others—who want to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind.
Giraffe Heroes
www.giraffe.org/giraffe
Visit the territory of real heroes, people who stick their necks out for the common good. The nonprofit Giraffe Heroes Project fosters active citizenship by telling the stories of these “Giraffes” in the media, on podiums and in the K-12 Giraffe Heroes Program for schools.
Character Counts!
www.charactercounts.org
CHARACTER COUNTS! is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian character education framework that teaches the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition includes thousands of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations.
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
www.tobaccofreekids.org
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and others, the campaign aims to change public policy and educate the public on the tobacco industry’s marketing and practices luring youth. The site includes initiatives that are taking action against Big Tobacco and special reports and highlights on tobacco issues.