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Strategies and Programs
Strategies, program reports, and training curricula to support the achievement of permanency for youth in foster care.
Adolescents and Families for Life: A Toolkit for Supervisors
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement
Short units for use in training and supporting staff to achieve permanency for youth in foster care. Available for purchase.
An Analysis of States' Child and Family Services Reviews and Program Improvement Plans from a Youth Development Perspective (PDF - 988 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development
Analysis of issues specifically relating to adolescents identified in final Child and Family Services Review reports and Program Improvement Plans.
A Call to Action: An Integrated Approach to Youth Permanency and Preparation for Adulthood (PDF - 190 KB)
Casey Family Services
Discusses the problems youth face when aging out of foster care without a permanent family, and calls for an integrated solution.
The Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice
Casey Family Services
Publications related to youth permanency and lifelong connections.
Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Projects
James Bell Associates, Inc. and the Children's Bureau, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
These reports from child welfare waiver demonstration projects include a special focus on permanency for older children in foster care.
Illinois Assisted Guardianship Phase I
Illinois Assisted Guardianship Phase II
Montana Assisted Guardianship/Kinship Permanence
Oregon Flexible Funding/Assisted Guardianship Phase I
Oregon Flexible Funding/Assisted Guardianship Phase II
Children's Bureau Express
These articles present reports from site visits to two Children's Bureau-funded demonstration projects with an emphasis on achieving permanency for youth in foster care.
Preventing Teen Homelessness: You Gotta Believe!
Project MECCA (Men Embracing Children Collectively through Adoption)
Concurrent Permanency Planning
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
Training curricula in English and Spanish and other resources to support implementation of concurrent planning, a useful strategy for moving youth to permanent families.
FYI Binder: The Tool for Youth Involvement
FosterClub
A tool for youth to become more involved in their foster care plans.
Model Programs for Youth Permanency (PDF - 234 KB)
California Permanency for Youth Project
Profiles of nine programs supporting permanence for children and adolescents in foster care.
Permanence for Young People
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
Publications providing a framework and measures for achieving permanency for youth.
Permanency for Adolescents (PDF - 1263 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development
Special issue of NRCYD Update on attaining placement permanency for adolescents in the foster care system.
Permanency Planning: Creating Life Long Connections. What Does it Mean for Adolescents? (PDF - 157 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development
Issues and possibilities related to permanency for adolescents, implications of permanency on independent living services, and barriers to adolescent permanency.
Youth Development Update
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development
Biannual newsletter on promising practices in the areas of positive youth development, independent living, and permanency planning for adolescents.
Youth Permanency
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
Tools, resources, and information about achieving permanency for youth.
Youth Services & Positive Youth Development
Child Welfare League of America
Information and links to resources about supporting youth and promoting permanency for youth in foster care.
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