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Thousands of Foster Teens Are in Danger and Society Does Not Care
Dr. John DeGarmo Huffington Post 10/14/15 A teen is in danger as you read this. A teen’s life depends upon your response. The late teenage years are a difficult time for any teenager. Sure, it is a...
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Fighting ‘toxic stress’ in students –“Paper Tigers”
Caitlin Skvorc Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman CAITLIN SKVORC/Frontiersman.com PALMER — School and public health officials say teachers need to know what’s going on in their students’ home lives to help...
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Placement Patterns of American Indian Children Involved with Child Welfare:
Findings from the section National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. The research brief, Placement Patterns of American Indian Children Involved with Child Welfare: Findings from the section...
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October Adoption Triad from Child Welfare Information Gateway
This month, Adoption Triad focuses on tribal customary adoption. The tribal use of customary adoption is deeply rooted in cultural and traditional values that honor the centrality of extended family...
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2015 National Adoption Month Website Now Live
from Child Welfare Information Gateway Earlier this month, the Children’s Bureau, in collaboration with Child Welfare Information Gateway, launched the 2015 National Adoption Month (NAM) website....
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Kinship Guardianship as a Permanency Option
This publication reviews State laws and policies that allow a family member or other person with close ties to a child who has been placed in out-of-home care to become that’s child’s permanent...
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Conducting Regular Self-Care Check-Ins
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS Associate Editor In order to respond to our needs, we must know them in the first place. We must tune into ourselves and ask and listen. That’s where doing a regular...
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US: Briefing Highlights Benefits of Foster Youth Advocates (Press release)
Office of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley – October 21, 2015 Today, the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, co-chaired by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Debbie Stabenow, in conjunction with the Congressional Caucus...
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House companion to the Family Stability and Kinship Care Act (S.1964/H.R.3781
from Voice for Adoption: This week Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Human Resources Subcommittee, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), introduced the House companion to the Family Stability and Kinship...
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US: Presidential Proclamation — National Adoption Month, 2015 (Press release)
The White House – October 28, 2015 During National Adoption Month, we recognize the selflessness of adoptive families, and we thank them for opening their hearts and their doors to young people in need...
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Communities Poised to Expand Groundbreaking Work in Childhood Trauma: 14...
o by Leslie Lieberman Fourteen communities from across the country now have an opportunity to expand their innovative work in addressing childhood adversity through a new project launched by The by...
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Office of Adolescent Health Provides New Resource Book
Building on earlier announcements about the “TAG,” Think, Act , Grow, HHS’s Office of Adolescent Health is continuing their efforts regarding a national call to action to improve the health and healthy...
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Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute 2015 Foster Youth Internship...
Recommendations from the experts – young adults who have experienced foster care – are included in this report from CCAI. Embracing Our Past, Empowering Their Future: Why Child Welfare Reform Matters...
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Join discussion November 9th — Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and...
Join a discussion on Monday, November 9th at 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET entitled, Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth. Sponsored by the NCTSN Culture Consortium, the NCCTS Policy...
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Study Finds Congress Is Paying More Attention to Social Media
By Rebecca Gale Roll Call: Posted at 5 a.m. on Oct. 14 A new study shows Congress is paying more attention to responses on social media. (CQ Roll Call File Photo) It turns out Congress cares what you...
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HOW ABOUT IMPLEMENTING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT WITH EMERGING ADULTS AND...
Author: Trend Lines | November 03, 2015 | 12:36 pm Healthy People 2020 identifies positive youth development (PYD) as a major new approach for interventions, describing it as “the intentional process...
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GAO Report: HHS Could Do More to Support States’ Efforts to Keep Children in...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the report, “HHS Could Do More to Support States’ Efforts to Keep Children in Family-Based Care”, which highlights eight states use of congregate...
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Support HUD’s Best Kept Secret – The Family Unification Program
HUD’s Family Unification Program (FUP) is the only national housing program aimed at preventing family separation due to homelessness and easing the transition to adulthood for aging-out youth. In the...
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Five-part webinar series: Leveraging the Strengthening Families Act
For more than a decade, the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative has been partnering with communities across the nation to help improve outcomes for young people transitioning from foster care to...
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‘Destined for great things’: Low-income students ask educators to believe...
From EdSource an excellent article that speaks to our expectations about kin/foster/adopted children and youth, as well as low-income students. by Jane Meredith Adams “I am a leader.” “I am not...
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