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EPY Learning Collective Webinar

February 2018

This webinar presents and demonstrates a new interactive online community where professionals can exchange ideas, resources, innovative approaches, and policies to improve outcomes for young people in or transitioning from foster care.

Report

Your Rights Related to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH): A Guide for Youth in Care

2018

This report is one of three in a compendium of SRH guidance and resources for child welfare jurisdictions. It offers a means of helping youth understand their SRH care rights.
(52 pp)

Report

Sexual and Reproductive Health of Youth in Out-of-Home Care: A Policy and Practice Framework for Child Welfare

March 2018

This report is the cornerstone of a three-part compendium of sexual and reproductive health guidance and resources for child welfare jurisdictions. It is intended for child welfare leadership and policy makers.
(36 pp)

Brief

Pregnant & Parenting Youth in Foster Care: A Case for Services and Quality Legal Representation

This brief works to resolve conflicts occurring when the public agency responsible for protecting and advocating for youth in foster care is also responsible for charging that youth with neglect or abuse.
(5 pp)

Report

Improving Health Care Services: Opportunities within Medicaid to Support Child Welfare Involved Expectant and Parenting Youth and Their Children

February 2017

This report offers several strategies states should pursue to maximize the health and well-being of adolescent parents who have experienced foster care and their children.
(36 pp)

Report

Expectant and Parenting Youth Developmental Needs: Paper

August 2015

This report outlines how to best serve expectant and parenting youth in foster care—listing five domains crucial to developmental needs that create positive experiences and mitigate or prevent adverse outcomes.
(46 pp)

Brief

Expectant and Parenting Youth Developmental Needs: Executive Summary

This brief overviews a series on expectant and parenting youth in foster care. It outlines five domains crucial to developmental needs that create positive experiences and mitigate or prevent adverse outcomes.
(3 pp)

Brief

Expectant and Parenting Youth Developmental Needs: Domain V

This brief, the final of five, discusses the preparation required to prepare foster youth in their transition to adulthood through education, building healthy life skills, and becoming nurturing parents.
(5 pp)

Brief

Expectant and Parenting Youth Developmental Needs: Domain IV

This brief, the fourth of five, discusses the importance of building and sustaining relationships/community with trustful and supportive family members, adults, peers, and the co-parent if safe and appropriate.
(5 pp)

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Expectant and Parenting Youth Developmental Needs: Domain III

This brief, the third of five, discusses the importance of forging positive personal and parental identities and having experiences that enable one to feel like a “normal” adolescent.
(5 pp)