Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), June 2010. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories of priority health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults, including the use of alcohol and other drugs, such as methamphetamine.

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), May 2010. This ONDCP Fact Sheet provides an overview of the current methamphetamine situation nationwide and highlights Federal, state, and local efforts targeting the use and production of this drug.

National Institute on Drug Abuse, March 2007. This resource presents research findings on the impact of methamphetamine use, meth use and HIV, and treatment approaches to help meth users.

National Resource Center for Child Protective Services, 2004. This resources discusses identifying and assessing safety threats in the initial assessment of families involved in methamphetamine use, including criteria for identifying present danger and impending danger, and key steps for managing safety threats.

National Resource Center for Child Protective Services, October 2005. This resources discusses a number of issues related to methamphetamine use in families and strategies for intervention.

National Resource Center for Child Protective Services, 2005. This resources includes a discussion of how to make intake decisions and screening decisions, sample questions for information gathering during intake, considerations for response time, safety threshold criteria, and information on worker safety.

National Abandoned Infants Resource Center, Spring 2006. This article explains the Matrix Model, which uses a non-confrontational treatment approach that focuses on current issues and behavior change when treating methamphetamine users.

National Resource Center for Child Protective Services, 2006. This resource provides information on promising or acceptable interventions that may be useful once methamphetamine use by a caregiver has been identified.

Journal of Extension, October 2008. This article describes a range of research-based programs and materials developed in Montana to combat rising meth use and offers lessons learned to help other States address meth use, production, and awareness.

RAND Corporation, 2009. This report presents calculations of government costs associated with removing children from the home because of meth use, and gives estimates of medical, mental health, and quality-of-life costs for child victims.

Congressional Research Service, 2007. This resource presents an analysis of trends in methamphetamine use and efforts to control its use and production.

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), July 2005. Part of a series of Congressional hearings on the subject of methamphetamine trafficking and abuse, this session was held to determine what Federal, State, and local support systems are needed to effectively combat this drug.

This Web site lists properties in Montana that have been declared by a law enforcement agency to be unfit for use due to the production of methamphetamine.

This resource lists contractors who have been certified by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to aid in the cleanup of properties contaminated by methamphetamine.

Date: September 9, 2010. Location: Salina, Kansas. This conference will include sessions on drug endangered children (DEC) eforts in Kansas, Kansas drug trends, polysubstance effects on children's development, and a panel of mothers in recovery.

Date: November 9-11, 2010. Location: Dallas, Texas. This event will provide training on the latest research and best practice strategies for drug endangered children (DEC) efforts at the local, state, and federal levels.

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), February 2010. This resource captures both the formal presentations and group discussion that took place at the July 2009 New England Methamphetamine Summit.

This Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) grant program aims to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system and provide assistance to communities in responding to substance abuse-related crime. The primary focus areas are drug endangered children (DEC) and pharmaceutical crime. Applications due: May 19, 2010.