Foster youth

May 2016

Kinship is More than Just Blood

By |2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 23rd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

Today's Guest Blogger is Mollie Kohler. As the title suggests, Kinship is More than Just Blood discusses the issue of kinship care being preferential to non-relative care for children in out of home placements and the implications of this value. It was written by Marie K. Cohen, a former child welfare social worker from Washington [...]

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March 2015

Foster youth victims of sex trafficking

By |2016-12-01T19:32:57-06:00March 23rd, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

Today's guest blogger is Hannah Burton. Article Title: From the System to the Street: The factors and figures behind the so-called “foster care to prostitution pipeline” Author: Lauren Kirchner Date Published: February 12, 2015   This article focused on children who have runaway or aged out of the foster care system and their relationship with [...]

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October 2013

Achieving Permanency for Youth Based in the Community

By |2016-12-01T19:33:05-06:00October 23rd, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

This post is written by the Stability, Permanency, and Adoption MSW Intern, Andrea Brubaker. As an alternative design to placing children in foster care in permanent families, the non-profit group home San Pasqual Academy near San Diego, CA offers a place for youth in foster care to live, attend high school, learn job skills, and [...]

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May 2013

Great resource for youth on managing their psychotropic medication use

By |2016-12-01T19:33:06-06:00May 29th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , |

A couple of weeks ago, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare held its annual spring conference and the subject of this year's conference was the intersection of disabilities and child welfare. One of our speakers was Lupe Ortiz-Tovar, who along with her colleague Clay Fink, presented information on the National Resource Center for [...]

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February 2013

Challenges in implementing evidence-based interventions for foster children

By |2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00February 12th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

Prevention Action, an online news publication on issues related to improving child development and health around the world, published an article, "Stressed welfare systems impede evidence-based support for foster children" last week. According to the article, a collaborative effort by rsearchers in the US and UK found that while several strong evidence-based interventions have been [...]

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January 2013

Using social media to connect foster youth with relatives

By |2016-12-01T19:33:10-06:00January 25th, 2013|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , , , |

An interesting story came out earlier in the week about using social media sites such as Facebook to connect foster youth with relatives. We typically hear stories about the problems associated with social media use among foster youth. In this story however, it is not a foster youth - or a biological parent - that [...]

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August 2012

Hear Me Now – the 2012 CCAI Foster Youth Internship Report

By |2016-12-01T19:33:14-06:00August 24th, 2012|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute Foster Youth Internship Report, Hear Me Now, has just been released. The Foster Youth Internship program, created in 2003, provides opportunities for formerly fostered young adults to become congressional interns, where they learn about policies and the legislative process on foster care and adoption. The Foster Youth Internship program [...]

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