This guide from New York City Administration for Children's Services discusses best practices for mentoring youth in foster care. These include building organizational capacity,...
Many children in foster or kinship care have a history of exposure to trauma. These print materials are designed as a comprehensive curriculum on child trauma for resource parents...
This brief focuses on the problems facing black families and their children, and the related risks to black children victimized by maltreatment and in need of protection and...
This report from the Youth Transition Funders Group presents a strategic approach to improving the economic well-being and financial success of young adults leaving foster care,...
This report examines changes in reported functioning over a 12-month follow-up period for a cohort of young children enrolled in foster care. The findings demonstrate that...
Young people who are transitioning out of the foster care and juvenile justice systems often have serious mental health needs. This report from California Family Impact Seminar...
The purpose of this brief from the Training and Technical Assistance Program for the Mentoring System-Involved Youth (MSIY) Initiative is to highlight the strengths and challenges...
The Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth Study is a collaborative effort of Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, the...
The Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth (the Midwest Study), is the largest longitudinal study of young people aging out of foster care and...
This brief from the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center summarizes key elements of an effective mentoring program for at-risk and high-risk youth, including foster...
Casey Family Programs, along with its partners, launched a new awareness campaign that is currently being piloted in the Austin, Texas area. The campaign’s slogan, "You don’t have...
A mentor can change the life of a young person involved in the juvenile justice or foster care system, but recruiting mentors to work with system-involved youth can be challenging.
The State Child Welfare Policy Database, from Child Trends with support from Casey Family Programs, provides information on child welfare laws, procedures, and agency guidance for...
This brief presents best practices on preparing high school-age youth to transition out of the child welfare system by providing information and resources on graduating from high...
Researches used data from waves I to III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (1994–2002) to determine whether youth in foster care with natural mentors during...
