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Resources
A Focus on Foster Care and Strengthening Families From the National Governor's Association A Place
to Call Home: State Efforts to Increase Adoptions and Improve Foster Care
Placements.
The issue brief highlights state best practices in managing and delivering
adoption and foster care services; streamlining adoption procedures; recruiting
adoptive and foster parents; and implementing family-centered, neighborhood-based
placement strategies and assisted guardianship placements. From the Annie E. Casey Foundation Leadership
Critical in Sustaining "Family to Family" Reforms. The
Family to Family initiative is helping to change the face of foster care.
The program, which is located in 16 states, recruits and train foster
and kinship families who can support children and families in their own
neighborhoods; builds community partnerships with organizations in neighborhoods
with high referral rates to child protection; uses team decision-making
to involve birth families, community members, foster parents, and caseworkers
in placement and reunification decisions; collects and analyzes data to
drive decision-making and highlight progress and challenges. A Special Report on Foster Teens in Transition: Fostered or Forgotten? What are communities and child welfare agencies doing (and not doing) to help them? Page
2: Gratified But Not Satisfied On Foster Care Independence - A Policy
Agenda To Encourage Work And Improve Child Outcomes. The president
of the Annie E. Casey Foundation challenges America to meet the needs
and unlock the potential of foster care youth in transition. The
Advocasey Index. Unhappy Outcomes: Youth after Foster Care. Fostered
Or Forgotten? New Jersey, Like Other States, Continues To Fall Short In
Preparing Foster Children for Independence. Intensive, high-quality
independent living programs — like the "Just for You" project
run by former foster kid, Freddi Afflerbach — remain few and far
between in the Garden State. An Unfinished Bridge to Independence. Like the population it serves, L.A. County's ambitious campaign to assist foster teens celebrates successes but struggles to reach maturity. http://www.aecf.org/publications/advocasey/fall2001/unfinished.htm Who Else Is Making A Difference For Foster Youth In Transition? Four Models Worth Watching. Brief profiles of a comprehensive service center in San Antonio, transitional housing in Cincinnati, quality employment in Baltimore, and coordinated state policy in Connecticut. http://www.aecf.org/publications/advocasey/fall2001/pdf/who_else.pdf What's
It All About? An Interview with Gary Stangler. The director of
the newly established Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative tells AdvoCasey
what it will take to build effective systems for foster children in transition
and what the initiative will do to help. From Save the Children Children
having Children is Focus of 2004 Report. Save the Children, the international
relief and development organization, has issued its 5th annual State of
the World's Mothers report. The 2004 report recommends ways to help girls
delay marriage and motherhood until they are emotionally and physically
ready to give birth and raise children. It also suggests programmatic
and policy solutions to help child mothers and their babies survive and
thrive. It also ranks nations, including the U.S., against a "Mother's
Index" and has an "Early Motherhood Risk Ranking."
Youth
in Transitions Communications Network. Connect for Kids online chat
features two communications consultants, Greg Michaelidis and Tamar Abrams,
answering various questions from more than 200 participants on ways community
programs can make the most of their efforts to reach the media and get
better press coverage for their work and their issues. If you missed Talktime
live, you can read the transcript online at: Resources in Spanish Online Catalog Offers ED Resources in Spanish. The U.S. Department of Education recently updated the link on its home page for Spanish speakers and others interested in Spanish-language resources for their districts and schools. The Web site, which was developed by the department's Information Resource Center, includes various education-related information-from resources for the student looking for college financial aid to the foreign teacher interested in teaching in the U.S. Users can access the site through http://www.ed.gov and clicking on "Recursos en español" or connecting directly at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/bienvenidos/es. Some of the Spanish-language resources included are:
For more information, contact (800) USA-LEARN or (800) 872-5327. Spanish-speaking information specialists are available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 2004 Child
Abuse Prevention Community Resource Packet Available in Spanish. Child
abuse prevention continues to be a key priority for the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services' Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse
and Neglect, and its National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
Information. The 2004 Child Abuse Prevention Community Resource Packet
(2nd Edition) and poster have been reprinted, and Spanish and English
copies are being disseminated nationally. Download English or Spanish
copies at http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/topics/prevention
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