This brief provides detailed answers to FAQs about Youth Thrive’s trainer training.
(5 pp)
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Youth Thrive: Protective and Promotive Factors
This brief gives an overview of Youth Thrive’s five protective and promotive factors. It lists their constructs and core meanings.
(2 pp)
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Youth Thrive Profile: Western Michigan University (WMU) Center for Fostering Success
This brief profiles one of 15 Youth Thrive initiatives. The Center helps youth who have aged out of foster care transition into college, complete their degrees, and move into careers.
(2 pp)
Policy Paper
Dismantling the Pipeline: Addressing the Needs of Young Women and Girls of Color Involved in Intervening Public Systems (Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Young Women and Girls)
October 2015
This policy paper is a chapter on addressing the issue of poor and minority children having more health problems and less access to health care than their peers.
(4 pp)
Report
Welcome Home: Design and Practice Guidance for Supportive Housing for Families with Children
March 2016
This report provides supplemental tools and resources specifically designed to help administrators and practitioners working with families take a two-generation approach in high-quality, outcomes-focused supportive housing developments.
(142 pp)
Brief
Transgender and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Children in California Foster Care
February 2016
The purpose of this brief is to support the efforts of California child welfare professionals to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of TGNC children in foster care.
(11 pp)
Brief
Taking Care of Yourself: Self-Care for Child Welfare Workers
This brief discusses the importance for child welfare workers to take care of themselves and ways they can use the five protective factors to promote their own well-being.
(2 pp)
Report
Sustaining New Approaches in Child Welfare: A Framework for Sustainability for Research-Based Infant-Toddler Court Teams
This report is the first in a series on sustainability of the Safe Babies Court Team approach. It focuses on understanding key elements of sustainability: collaboration, resources, data, policy/legislation, and financing.
(11 pp)
Policy Paper
Supporting Youth Aging Out of Foster Care through SNAP
2016
This policy paper discusses how youth aging out of foster care are disproportionately impacted by food insecurity because they are particularly at risk of experiencing poverty and how SNAP can help.
(8 pp)
Policy Paper
State Policies Concerning LGBTQ Youth
September 2014
This brief lists policies pertaining to LGBTQ youth for each state, including D.C. It covers public accommodations, social services, child welfare, foster care, juvenile detention, educational facilities, and social worker guidelines.
(135 pp)