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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Expectant and Parenting Youth Developmental Needs: Domain II
This brief, the second of five, discusses the difficulty in motivating expectant youth, especially those in foster care, to seek medical, contraceptive, and reproductive health care and information.
(5 pp)
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Expectant and Parenting Youth Developmental Needs: Domain I
This brief, the first of five, discusses the need for foster parents to be approachable and prepared with information to discuss sensitive sexual issues with youth in care.
(5 pp)
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Early Childhood Development and Child Safety: Mobilizing For Action
March 2018
This summary report documents the experiences of participating communities over the course of the 8-month Action Learning Lab. It highlights key themes of ALL, as well as considerations for future work.
(8 pp)
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EC-LINC R2A Birth to Three Best Practices: Playgroups (Survey Of Current Practices)
August 2016
This brief summarizes the responses from a survey of current playgroup practices with EC-LINC R2A partners in September of 2016.
(8 pp)
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EC-LINC R2A Birth to Three Best Practices: Playgroups
This brief offers a series of evaluation frameworks for "playgroups." It includes an at-a-glance look at best practices frameworks for: engaging families, playgroup facilitators, playgroup frequency, and playgroup content.
(6 pp)