The recommendations in this brief highlight strategies for improving the delivery of developmental screening and early intervention for children who become known to state and local child welfare systems.
(13 pp)
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Youth Thrive: A Framework to Help Adolescents Overcome Trauma and Thrive
2015
This brief describes Youth Thrive's protective and promotive factors framework and examines how a focus on thriving is necessary to complement the field’s growing move to become trauma-informed.
(20 pp)
Report
Youth Thrive: Advancing Healthy Adolescent Development and Well-Being
September 2014
This report provides a synthesis of the ideas and research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences that inform the Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors Framework.
(52 pp)
Report
Michelle H., et al. v. McMaster and Alford Progress Report (April 2017-September 2017)
March 2018
This is the second report on the progress of the South Carolina Department of Social Services in meeting the requirements of the Final Settlement Agreement.
(139 pp)
Brief
Youth Thrive: Promoting Youth Resilience
2017
This brief is an additional module to the Youth Thrive curriculum. The Trainer’s Guide for this module provides youth workers with tools and easy-to-implement activities that can be used in their programs and professional practice to support young people in developing resilience skills.
(61 pp)
Brief
Administration for Children and Families: Legal Representation and Child Welfare
This brief proposes all child welfare agencies, courts, administrative offices of the courts, and Court Improvement Programs collaborate to ensure parents, children/youth, and child welfare agencies receive high quality legal representation.
(15 pp)
Brief
Government Efficiencies Can Save Taxpayer Dollars, Preserving Funds for Vital Supports for Families and Children
This brief outlines effective solutions that state elected officials can implement to save scarce state funds, easing budget pressures that can erode vital services for vulnerable children and families.
(2 pp)
Brief
Youth Thrive: Protective & Promotive Factors Core Meanings
This brief gives an overview of Youth Thrive’s five Protective and Promotive Factors and lists their constructs and core meanings.
(2 pp)
Video
CSSP Makes Policy Recommendations to Achieve Racial Equity in Child Welfare
June 2015
In this video, Megan Martin introduces a new paper highlighting policy strategies that have shown promise in improving outcomes for children and families of color in child welfare systems.
Video
Understanding the Developmental Needs of Expectant and Parenting Youth
September 2015
This video discusses Dr. Charlyn Harper Browne's paper, which delineates the developmental needs of EPY populations across five domains: sexual and reproductive health, cognitive and emotional development, identity, social development, and preparation.