CSSP’s Youth Power, Parent Power initiative partnered with New Jersey’s Montclair State University and the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) on a youth-driven research project to explore the risk and protective factors associated with first and repeat births among females emancipating from foster care. Young parents with lived experience identified the research questions, analyzed the data, co-wrote an article about the research findings, and, using the research findings, co-presented on a national webinar. The article was published by the Journal of Children and Youth Services Review. Please read the article by clicking here.
Publications & Resources
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DULCE’s Anti-Racist Approach
May 2021
To achieve a just and equitable society in which all infants and their families thrive, anti-racist approaches must be explicitly designed to address the racial health inequities of infants and their families. Learn how DULCE does this via animated video.
Crosswalk: Youth Thrive & Healing Centered Engagement
May 2021
This resource is for those who work with and support young people and are interested in exploring how to apply healing centered engagement and build the Protective and Promotive Factors with young people to help them heal and thrive. This resource draws upon and applies Dr. Shawn Ginwright’s concept of healing centered engagement to youth serving systems.
(14 pp)
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How We EndUP: Black Feminist Dreams for the Future
May 2021
This webinar addressed how Black feminist theory and understandings, including reproductive justice, guides us toward the abolition of the family policing system and the creation of (envision) a society where children, families, and communities are no longer over surveilled by state systems and have the power and resources for what they need to live freely and abundantly.
Strengthening Families State Profile: Kentucky
May 2021
This profile offers an overview of the Strengthening Families work in Kentucky as well as additional information on key aspects, evaluation, and evolving work.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families State Profile: Indiana
May 2021
This profile offers an overview of the Strengthening Families work in Illinois as well as additional information on key aspects, evaluation, and evolving work.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families State Profile: Arizona
May 2021
This profile offers an overview of the Strengthening Families work in Arizona as well as additional information on key aspects, evaluation, and evolving work.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families State Profile: Alaska
May 2021
This profile offers an overview of the Strengthening Families work in Alaska as well as additional information on key aspects, evaluation, and evolving work.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families State Profile: Alabama
May 2021
This profile offers an overview of the Strengthening Families work in Alabama as well as additional information on key aspects, evaluation, and evolving work.
(2 pp)
Strengthening Families State Profile: North Carolina
May 2021
This profile offers an overview of the Strengthening Families work in North Carolina as well as additional information on infrastructure, parent partnerships, ensuring accountability, deepening knowledge, shifting practice, and evolving work.
(2 pp)