PERMANENCE & ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

The Toolkit featuring 3 toolkits for teen permanence
    Adolescents and Families for Life: A Toolkit for Supervisors
    The Family Bound Program: A Toolkit for Preparing Teens for Permanent Family Connections
    Families For Teens: A Toolkit for Focusing, Educating and Motivating Staff
http://www.TheToolkit.org

California Permanence for Youth Project
http://www.cpyp.org/


A Family for Every Child: Strategies to Achieve Permanence for Older Foster Children and Youth
http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter/Publications.aspx?pubguid={104C33ED-5D53-458B-B6AA-C4B645BD273B}

The Annie E. Casey Foundation Top Resources
http://www.aecf.org/Top%20Resources.aspx
Web Resources 2008 (annotated)

With links to other Casey resources
http://www.casey.org/

 

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/youth-permanency.html

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/index.html

 

Family Groups & Decisions

American Humane's National Center on Family Group Decision Making
http://www.americanhumane.org/protecting-children/programs/family-group-decision-making/

U.C. Davis The Resource Center for Family-focused Practice
http://humanservices.ucdavis.edu/resource/familygroup/index.asp

Finding a child/youth family and other connections:

Family Finding
http://www.senecacenter.org/familyconnectedness

Relative Search Guide
http://www.childfocuspartners.com/images/RelativeSearchGuide10-15.pdf 

Six Steps to Find a Family: A Practice Guide to Family Search and Engagement
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp//downloads/SixSteps.pdf

Family Search & Engagement: A Comprehensive Practice Guide
http://www.emqff.org/press/docs/FSE_guide.pdf

Youth & Permanence

Permanency Planning:  What Does It Mean For Adolescents? (and connections to other resources)
http://www.nrcys.ou.edu/PDFs/Monographs/Mono.pdf
http://www.nrcys.ou.edu/onlinelb.htm

Foster Care Youth United
http://www.youthcomm.org/Publications/FCYU-info.htm

National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement
Promising Practices for Youth Leaving Foster Care
Defining Safety, Permanency and Well-being Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care
http://www.muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/telepast.html

Building Blocks for Youth (Juvenile Justice)
http://nicic.gov/features/library/?corp=building%20blocks%20for%20youth%20initiative%20(washington,%20dc)

Reconnecting Youth & Community: A Youth Development Approach
http://www.jbsinternational.com/pdf/port_brochures_reconnecting.pdf

The Search Institute
The 40 Developmental Assets
    for teens and other age groups
    in various languages
http://www.search-institute.org/assets/forty.htm
http://www.search-institute.org/downloads

America’s promise alliance
http://www.americaspromise.org/APAPage.aspx?id=5928

Inside the Teen Brain (helpful web site in understanding how a teen's thinking changes)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/

Youth in the Margins: A Report on the Unmet Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adolescents in Foster Care 10/05/2001
http://www.lambdalegal.org/publications/youth-in-the-margins/

CWLA Best Practices Guidelines: Serving LGBT Youth in out-of-home care
http://www.nclrights.org/site/DocServer/bestpracticeslgbtyouth.pdf?docID=1322

Chapin Hall

Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth
http://www.chapinhall.org/article_abstract.aspx?ar=1355

Network on Transition to Adulthood
http://www.transad.pop.upenn.edu/

Vulnerable Youth & the transition to adulthood
http://www.transad.pop.upenn.edu/trends/vulnerable.html

Youth Leadership Advisory Team Position Paper: Siblings in Foster Care and Adoption
http://www.ylat.org//leadership/policy/siblingposition.htm

ABA Center on Children and the Law
http://www.abanet.org/child/home2.html

Reclaiming Youth Network
http://www.reclaiming.com/

FOSTERING FRUSTRATION: How foster children are caught up in agency roulette
http://www.dailyherald.com/special/fosteringfrustration/dayonemain.asp

Covenant House/Columbia University
Youth in Crisis: Characteristics of Homeless Youth Served by Covenant House New York

http://www.covenanthouse.org/pdf/Youth_in_Crisis_by_CHNY_2009-03.pdf

Child Trends

Building a Better Teenager: A summary of "What Works" in Adolescent Development (Research Brief)
Child Trends Research Brief, Publication 2002-57
http://www.childtrends.org/..

Youth Who "Age-Out" of Foster Care: Troubled Lives, Troubling Prospects (Research Brief)
Child Trends Research Brief, Publication 2002-59
http://www.childtrends.org/store/search.cfm?#URLToken#

Aging Out: Knowing Risa
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/agingout/about/risa.html 

MENTAL HEALTH

National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.gov/healthinformation/childmenu.cfm

A Home Within
http://www.ahomewithin.org

Mentally Ill Youths and the Juvenile Justice System
http://www.nationalcasa.org/download/Judges_Page/0602_mentally_iii_youths_0036.pdf

National Mental Health Information Center
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/child/childhealth.asp

PTSD Research Quarterly
Http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/publications/rq/rq_list.html

Mental Health Practice: Guidelines for Child Welfare
http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter/Publications.aspx?pubguid={FAAABEF9-2E5C
-4D63-8584-73205D3B7CA4}

ADOPTION

Adopt US Kids website
http://www.adoptuskids.org/resourceCenter/

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/research/ressea.html

The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Adoption
http://www.spaulding.org/resourcecenter/index.htm 

New York State Citizen’s Coalition for Children
http://www.lightlink.com/nysccc/

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
http://naic.acf.hhs.gov/

The 3–5–7 Model: preparing children for permanency
Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 27, Issue 2, February 2005, Pages 197-212
Darla L. Henry (717)236-8510 dhenry@diakon-swan.org

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V98-4DM28KM-3-5&_cdi=5892&.....

North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
http://www.nacac.org/  

The National Adoption Center
http://www.adopt.org/

Adoption, The Future of Children
Published by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info.htm?doc_id=77427

Children, Families, and Foster Care, The Future of Children
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info.htm?doc_id=209538

GENERAL RESOURCES

Child Welfare Information Gateway
http://www.childwelfare.gov

The Children's Bureau
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/

Child & Family Web Guide at
http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/

The Children’s Bureau Express
http://cbexpress.acf.hhs.gov/

Children's Rights, Inc
http://www.childrensrights.org/

Social Work on the Web
http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/lboyer/socwork/bysubj.htm

Welfare Information Network
http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/win