Let's Talk Safety and Success
For Every Child

Let's Talk Safety and Success is a comprehensive and evidence-based youth safety and health program. Let's Talk supports families, educators, healthcare providers, employers, and lawmakers as they work together to create safe, resilient, and youth-friendly environments.

The obstacles to student's safety and success are clear. Substance abuse, violence, and injury are the leading causes of youth mortality, disability, hospitalization, and emotional trauma.

A Comprehensive Approach

Let's Talk strengthens citywide community education

Let's Talk Parent workshops strengthen parent-child communication about youth safety and health.

Let's Talk About Life Skills provide classroom lessons customized to meet local health learning standards.

Let's Talk workplace presentations reach parents, school staff, students, healthcare providers, and interested community members.

Supporting Evidence-Based Strategies

Let's Talk provides each city with a menu of evidence-based strategies for preventing youth violence, substance abuse, suicide, and injury. Let's Talk workshops, trainings, workplace presentations, town halls, publications, and website promote community projects that keep young people safe, healthy, and resilient.

A Virtual Family Resource Center

Let's Talk uses a web-based learning management system serving as the centerpiece for community education and mobilizing around youth safety and success in school. The website provides:

• Tools to deliver workshops for parents
• Family-tested communication activities
• Web-based lessons for families
• Classroom lessons for schools
• A course for workshop trainers
• Surveys to assess students' knowledge
• An interactive map and directory to resources
• A community calendar to spotlight events

Achieving Your Goals

Let's Talk supports:

Schools: Strengthening safety priorities and outreach to parents.
Public health: Supporting policy objectives and promoting evidence-based strategies.
Faith-based and community based organizations: Increasing knowledge and promoting the skills to keep the youth safe.
Employers: Promoting staff and employee awareness of youth violence, substance abuse, and injury in the community.
Parent organizations: Delivering comprehensive face-to-face and web-based support.

Increasing Capacity

Expanding the Capacity to Conduct Citywide Community Education

The Let's Talk Safety and Success program allows one local Let's Talk coordinator to set up an entire citywide program reaching a city's population of parents, guardians, school staff, students, healthcare providers, and community members working in youth development, health, and safety.

The local Let's Talk coordinator is provided with all the training and resources needed to implement a customized Let's Talk program designed to meet the specific needs of a local community.

Evaluating Progress

The Lets Talk Safety and Success program provides the local coordinator with a yearly report that tracks:

• Which topics were of most interest to parents and other visitors
• How young people performed on the quizzes
• How workshop trainers understood key concepts about health, safety, and success in school

Let's Talk also works with city coordinators to develop tools to evaluate progress toward implementation of evidence-based community projects focused on youth safety and success in school.