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The Casey Foundation's approach to authentic youth engagement includes four components: 1) youth-adult partnerships; 2) preparation; 3) opportunity; and 4) support.
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- 4 Things You Learned or Can Use as a Foster ParentConfirmation
- Confirmation
- Certificate of Completion
FosterParentTraining.com
A sample format of how each Training Course is set out.
- Training
- Confirmation
- 4 Things You Learned or Can Use as a Foster Parent
- Certificate of Completion
Enjoy!
FosterParentTraining.com
A sample format of how each Training Course is set out.
- Training
- Confirmation
- 4 Things You Learned or Can Use as a Foster Parent
- Certificate of Completion
Enjoy!
FosterParentTraining.com
A sample format of how each Training Course is set out.
- Training
- 4 Things You Learned or Can Use as a Foster Parent
- Confirmation
- Certificate of Completion
Enjoy!
FosterParentTraining.com
The 2021 National Adoption Month webinar, Every Conversation Matters provides
child welfare professionals with tips to incorporate youth engagement
in daily practice. During this 90-minute webinar, professionals and
young people who have experienced care:
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Share how youth engagement is essential to achieving permanency for teens
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Discuss how to authentically listen to and engage young people
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Describe how to incorporate youth voice into practice
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Provide information about resources and materials available from Child Welfare Information Gateway, AdoptUSKids, and Children’s Bureau grantees
The webinar was developed through a collaboration between Child Welfare Information Gateway and AdoptUSKids on behalf of the Children’s Bureau.
Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect - State Statutes = .25 Hrs
Current Through April 20109
This fact sheet discusses laws that designate the groups of professionals that are required to report cases of suspected child abuse and neglect. Reporting by other persons, the responsibilities of institutions in making reports, standards for making a report, and confidentiality of reports also are discussed. Summaries of laws for all States and U.S. territories are included.
Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2019). Mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.
Chronic child neglect occurs when a caregiver repeatedly fails to meet a child’s basic physical, developmental, and/or emotional needs over time, establishing a pattern of harmful conditions that can have long-term negative consequences for health and well-being. This differs from a report of child neglect, which refers to a single incident of failing to meet a child’s basic physical, psychological, or safety needs.
This material may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, when doing so, please credit Child Welfare
Information Gateway. This publication is available online at https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/chronic-neglect/.
Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment and Intervention (4 Hrs)
Provides a foundation for understanding child maltreatment and the roles and responsibilities of various practitioners in its prevention, identification, investigation, assessment, and treatment.
4 Hrs Trainng
101 Pages pdf
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Children’s Bureau
Office on Child Abuse and Neglect
A Framework for Effectively Partnering with Young People
By the Annie E. Casey Foundation
November 5, 2019
In This Guide on Authentic Youth Engagement, You'll Learn
- The four components of authentic youth engagement.
- How to assess the four components of authentic youth engagement.
- The benefits of authentic youth engagement.
- Where to learn more about supporting youth-adult partnerships.
Summary
This guide explores authentic youth engagement, including how it benefits young people, why it works and what it looks like in real life.
Key Takeaway
Remodeling underway: adolescent experiences can fuel extensive changes in a person’s brain
The practice of authentic youth engagement utilizes emerging research on adolescent brain development. It considers trauma’s impact on the brain, how the brain heals and the role that experiential learning plays in helping youth grow.
Findings & Stats
The Engagement Advantage
Authentically engaging young people helps build their self-esteem, leadership, advocacy and professional development skills while also increasing their influence and personal stake in the community.
Partnerships in Action
Examples of youth-adult partnerships include working together to develop case plans; co-designing and facilitating trainings to educate child welfare professionals; and co-presenting resources and information to community partners.
Statements & Quotations
When young people are authentically engaged, they should feel heard, respected, valued, trusted, appreciated, safe and comfortable.
Through this signature practice, young people use their individual and collective power and expertise in helping to shape a better future for those in and transitioning from foster care into adulthood.
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Provides information for Tribal leaders on how to engage youth. The brief discusses the importance of youth engagement and the practices and tools to support it.
Promoting Supportive, Lasting Adult Connections for Older Youth in Foster Care: Good Shepherd Services' Permanency Pact Program
12 Pgs, pdf
Good Shepherd Services, Redlich Horwitz Foundation (2018)
Highlights permanency pacts, which can be used to increase permanency by strengthening and formalizing existing relationships between a youth and a close adult. The paper provides an overview of the importance of having a supportive relationship with caring adults and existing efforts to support older youth as they transition to adulthood.
Authentic Relationships Matter Most: A New Model for Permanency - Pilot Study
Faulkner, Belseth, Adkins, & Perez (2018)
Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing
34 Pgs, pdf
Provides an overview of legal permanency for children in foster care and describes a model that helps give youth what they need to succeed in adulthood.
Thousands of youth graduate from high school or reach the age of maturity while still in the foster care system. Many of these youth “age out” of the system with little or no connection to family or supportive adults and face the potential of poor life prospects. Foster care alumni face high rates of homelessness, unemployment, incarceration, and lack of access to health care.
Thousands of youth graduate from high school or reach the age of maturity while still in the foster care system. Many of these youth “age out” of the system with little or no connection to family or supportive adults and face the potential of poor life prospects. Foster care alumni face high rates of homelessness, unemployment, incarceration, and lack of access to health care.
Terry Gross, National Public Radio interviews Temple Grandin.
Temple Grandin: A Key to Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin is one of the nation's top designers of livestock facilities. She is also autistic. In her 1995 book Thinking in Pictures, she described how her inner-autistic world led her to develop an empathy for how animals cope.
Temple Grandin is currently an assistant professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Her new book is Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.
Terry Gross, National Public Radio host of "Fresh Air" interviews Michael John Carley.
Carley is the executive director of GRASP, The Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership. In 2000, he and his then 4-year-old son were diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. GRASP works to educate the public about the disorder.