HHD’s resource centers are each housed within one of six larger centers that make up HHD. Below are brief descriptions of the resource centers:

• The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) supports suicide prevention with the best of science, skills and practice. The Center provides technical assistance, training, and informational materials to strengthen suicide prevention networks and advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
  
  Funded through a cooperative agreement between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Education Development Center, Inc., (EDC), SPRC works in collaboration with ten partner organizations.
  
  Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  
  

• The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention is a training and technical assistance center for more than 160 Federally funded projects that engage school districts, mental health centers, community agencies, and Native American tribes who are working to promote mental health and prevent youth violence among children, youth, their families and other adults. A core belief of the Center is that people’s lives can be enhanced through effective programs that foster healthy development and resiliency for individuals, families, and communities.
  
  The Center serves grantees of three Federal programs: the Youth Violence Prevention Program and the Targeted Capacity Expansion Program, both funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Program, funded by SAMHSA and the Departments of Education and Justice. Though each grantee group has a distinct focus, they are united in their efforts to foster resilient individuals and families and to promote safe communities, which they do by skillfully bringing together diverse stakeholders to work toward these goals. The Center also assists other groups seeking Federal funding, helping them strengthen their ability to write successful proposals and implement programs in their communities.
  
  Funders: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Program, funded by SAMHSA and the Departments of Education and Justice.
  
  
  
• Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention (HEC). HEC is the nation’s primary resource for assisting colleges and universities in preventing substance abuse. The center develops, implements, and evaluates prevention policies and programs that address a broad range of health and safety issues. It also conducts research to expand current knowledge about effective strategies in promoting health and preventing substance abuse. The center’s primary emphasis is on developing and implementing environmental approaches that link student behavior to the larger social and policy environment.
  
  Center: Center for College Health and Safety
  
  Funders: U.S. Department of Education

• Children’s Safety Network: National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center (CSN). CSN works with local, state, and national maternal and child health agencies, strengthening their capacity to address injuries, suicide, and violence among children and adolescents through advocacy, materials development, training, technical assistance, needs assessment, evaluation, and policy development.
  
  Center: Center on Violence and Injury Prevention
  
  Funder: Maternal and Child Health Bureau

• Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT). CAPT works with state and local agencies to prevent alcohol and drug use in youth ages 12-17. The Center provides professional development for practitioners on ways to create community change, implement science-based programs, emphasize environmental prevention strategies, and conduct needs assessments and evaluations. The center serves the New England States, as well as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.
  
  Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

• National Training Center for Middle School Drug Prevention and School Safety Coordinators (MSC). This center provides training and technical assistance to 1,000 middle school coordinators throughout the country, who are charged with implementing research-based substance abuse and violence prevention policies and programs. The center works to foster leadership skills and to help coordinators identify, select, and use research-based approaches that are tailored to local needs.
  
  Center: Center for School Health Programs
  
  Funder: Department of Education

• Coordinated School Health Programs/Making Health Academic. The project promotes collaboration among state agencies, national- and state-level non-governmental organizations, local school districts, families, and young people to establish “coordinated school health programs.” Such programs aim not only to address students’ health needs, but to improve their ability to learn. Building on HHD’s book Health Is Academic, developed in collaboration with 70 national organizations, the project works to improve health and reduce health disparities among youth.
  
  Center: Center for School Health Programs
  
  Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention