What Works
YouthPower is an USAID-funded activity and set of projects expanding the evidence base for what works in positive youth development and applying improved approaches across programs and sectors. YouthPower uses a positive youth development approach to implement programs within and across sectors, to engage young people, their families and communities so that youth can reach their full potential.
Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
The Clearinghouse Continuum of Evidence (Continuum) is an interactive, searchable database of evidence-based programs that address a wide variety of family and mental health issues, such as healthy parenting, financial literacy, nutrition and physical activity, stress, anxiety, and depression.
Youth Evidence-Based Program Directory
The youth.gov Program Directory features evidence-based programs whose purpose is to prevent and/or reduce delinquency or other problem behaviors in young people. The site also describes risk and protective factors, recent research and how factors are relevant to youth programs.
HHS Teen Pregnancy and Prevention Evidence Review
The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review identified programs with evidence of effectiveness in reducing teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and associated sexual risk behaviors. This site allows you to find and compare programs, as well as review resources. No longer an active program, the information found on this website is archival as of September 2019.
What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse
What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse is a “one-stop shop” for research on the effectiveness of a wide variety of reentry programs and practices. It features programs rated by the National Institute of Justice’s CrimeSolutions.gov, a website that presents programs that have undergone rigorous evaluations and meta-analyses. CrimeSolutions.gov assesses the strength of the evidence about whether these programs achieve criminal justice, juvenile justice, or crime victim services outcomes in order to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s promising.