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This webpage shares stories directly from youth and adoptive families about the importance of youth having their voices heard and the impact that building a relationship based on mutual trust can have on a young person’s life. Child welfare professionals should use these stories as they discuss permanency planning with ...
Reentry Supports and Recidivism Services during incarceration play an important role in successfully preparing and supporting incarcerated parents through reentry, as they provide the parent with necessary coping tools to reenter their communities and the everyday stressors associated with reentry. However, after the first full four-year term of Second Chances implementation, ...
There are four components to the Second Chances program: programming for incarcerated parents, programming for custodial parents, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the children of incarcerated parents, and contact visitation. Program staff also conduct brief follow-up phone interviews to gather informal data on their graduates’ progress after they have been ...
The Need Within the United States’ population of roughly 2.1 million incarcerated individuals, 54 percent are fathers who have one or more children under the age of 18.1 This phenomenon remains true in Norfolk, Virginia, where the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office’s Second Chances program is located. Given that a notable portion of ...
This toolkit (PDF, 13 pages) provides resources and information to help increase recognition of adoption issues and bring attention to the need for adoptive families for teens in the foster care system. The toolkit contains graphics, sample social media posts, email signatures, and additional messaging. Learn more.  ...
The Department of Health and Human Services announced more than $6 million for Title X Family Planning Research grants, Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Evaluation and Research grants, and Research to Practice Center grants as part of its work to protect and expand access to family planning and reproductive health care. The ...
This intervention was designed for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) teens and young adults to amplify and reinforce healthy social norms and cultural values, teach suicide warning signs, prepare youth to initiate difficult conversations with peers and trusted adults, encourage youth to access mental health resources (i.e., tribal clinics, ...
This webpage contains marketing materials for National Teen Driver Safety Week 2022, which is October 16–22. The observance encourages parents and caregivers to have conversations with their teens about the important rules they need to follow to stay safe behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. This page contains fact ...
This webpage contains videos and discussion guides to explain how and why kinship caregivers foster and adopt relative children and how to better support them.   The discussion guides include reflective activities and questions for individual coaching or to promote collaborative discussions. They also feature templates for goal setting and action planning ...
This webpage includes kinship care contacts and website links to kinship care programs and services offered by State child welfare departments, subcontracted private nonprofit agencies, and some Tribes in applicable States and the District of Columbia. Learn more.  
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