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Resource: Prevention With Purpose: A Resource for Campus Police and Public Safety Personnel 

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This guide (PDF, 8 pages) provides campus police and public safety personnel with information to help them engage in a data-driven, step-by-step strategic planning process for substance misuse prevention that includes stakeholders from across the campus and members of the surrounding community. Active engagement of campus police and public safety personnel leads to better planning, implementation, and evaluation of prevention strategies and a greater likelihood these strategies will succeed. Learn more(PDF, 8 pages). 

Resource: Electronic Cigarette Poisoning Prevention Resource Guide 

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This resource guide (PDF, 11 pages) provides e-cigarette poisoning prevention resources to help state, jurisdiction, and local health departments and their partners expand their prevention efforts. Learn more(PDF, 11 pages). 

Report: Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales: Results From the 2022 NAEP Reading and Mathematics Assessments 

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This report (PDF, 20 pages) highlights the results of mapping state proficiency standards onto the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scales using state assessment results from the 2021–22 school year and the 2022 NAEP assessments for public schools. The study focuses on the reading and mathematics standards that states set for grades 4 and 8. Learn more (PDF, 20 pages). 

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