Organizations Supporting Youth Involved With Child Welfare

Phone: (202) 775-9731

Fax: (202) 775-9733

Email: aypf@aypf.org

The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a professional development organization that provides learning opportunities for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers working on youth and education issues at the national, state, and local levels.

nadid: 19302

Toll-Free: (888) 572-6500

Email: info@brycs.org

General Scope: Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (BRYCS), a project of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS), is a national technical assistance program addressing the challenges which refugee youth and children face in adjusting to life in the U. S. Its purpose is to broaden the scope of information and increase the collaboration among service providers for refugee youth, children and families.
Online Trainings: Available through BRYCS Online Training Modules.

nadid: 11210

Toll-Free: (800) 496-2230

Casey Family Programs works in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and two territories and with more than a dozen tribal nations to influence long-lasting improvements to the safety and success of children, families, and the communities where they live. Founded in 1966, they learn from and collaborate with communities at local, state, tribal, and national levels to nurture the safety and success of children.

nadid: 11152

Toll-Free: (800) 394-3366

Email: info@childwelfare.gov

Child Welfare Information Gateway connects professionals and the general public to information and resources targeted to the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to programs, research, laws and policies, training resources, statistics, and much more.

nadid: 17904

Phone: (614) 236-6730

Fax: (614) 236-6958

Email: fylaw@law.capital.edu

The Family and Youth Law Center at Capital University Law School (FYLaw) works within child welfare, adoption, and juvenile justice systems to support positive outcomes for children, youth, and families. Established in 1998 as the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy, FYLaw partners with local, State, and national agencies and organizations in collaborations aimed at improving the laws, policies, and practices associated with child protection, adoption, and juvenile justice systems. FYLaw launched the Foster Youth Advocacy Center (FYAC) to provide civil legal services to young adults transitioning out of the child welfare system and families at risk of systems involvement.

nadid: 11742

Phone: (301) 608-8098

Fax: (301) 608-8721

The Family and Youth Services Bureau is part of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. FYSB is dedicated to supporting young people and strengthening families by providing runaway and homeless youth service grants to local communities. The Bureau has also created a support network that includes a national hotline and referral system for runaway and homeless youth, training, onsite consultations, and the dissemination of information.

nadid: 11186

Phone: (202) 207-3333

Fax: (202) 207-3329

Email: youth@forumfyi.org

The Forum for Youth Investment (the Forum) is an organization dedicated to helping communities and the nation make sure all young people are ready by the age of 21 for college, work, and life.

The Forum provides youth and adult leaders with the information, technical assistance, training, network support and partnership opportunities needed to increase the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement.

nadid: 19450

Phone: (918) 862-2586

Toll-Free: (888) ALU-MNI0

Email: VAchapterfostercarealumni@gmail.com

The mission of Foster Care Alumni of America is to connect the alumni community and to transform policy and practice, ensuring opportunity for people in and from foster care.

nadid: 19483

Phone: (571) 203-0270

Fax: (855) 773-8299

Email: info@fc2success.org

Foster Care to Success' mission is to provide opportunities for America's foster youth to continue their education, to increase awareness of the number and plight of older teens leaving the maze of foster care, to highlight the potential of America's foster youth and the importance of supporting their dreams, and to offer direct opportunities for citizens, business, and civic organizations to assist older foster youth.

Foster Care to Success was formerly the Orphan Foundation of America.

nadid: 11072

Phone: (503) 717-1552

Fax: (503) 717-1702

Email: info@fosterclub.com

FosterClub provides encouragement, motivation, information, education, and benefits for foster youth. The website provides information relating to foster care including articles, questions and answers (q+a), message boards, contests, discussion of foster care topics, and biographies of famous people who grew up in care.

nadid: 13397

Email: info@urfosterstrong.org

FosterStrong is a nonprofit organization composed of individuals who have spent time in the U.S. foster care system. Its mission is to empower current and former foster youth by authentically sharing their own journeys of moving from trauma to triumph, rewriting the negative narrative surrounding foster care, recruiting potential foster parents for the nearly half a million U.S. children in foster care, and becoming a valuable resource to children and youth in care, child welfare professionals, and foster parents.

nadid: 30227

Phone: (410) 685-0410

Fax: (410) 685-0481

Email: Info@HealthyTeenNetwork.org

Healthy Teen Network's mission is to provide leadership, education, training, information, advocacy, resources and support to professional individuals and organizations in the field of adolescent health, with an emphasis on teen pregnancy, pregnancy prevention and teen parenting.

nadid: 19465

Toll-Free: (855) 936-7837

Email: support@ifoster.org

iFoster's mission is to ensure that every child growing up outside of their biological home has the resources and opportunities they need to become successful, independent adults.

nadid: 28819

Phone: (202) 626-3014

Fax: (202) 626-3043

TTY: (877) 827-2385

Email: INFO@NLC.ORG

The Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute), a special entity within the National League of Cities (NLC), helps municipal leaders take action on behalf of the children, youth, and families in their communities.

The YEF Institute is a national resource, providing guidance and assistance to municipal officials, compiling and disseminating information on promising strategies and best practices, building networks of local officials working on similar issues and concerns, and conducting research on the key challenges facing municipalities in these core program areas, including youth development.

nadid: 24032

Phone: (410) 547-6600

Fax: (410) 547.6624

The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative is a national foundation whose mission is to help youth in foster care make successful transitions to adulthood.

Formed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Programs, the Initiative brings together the people and resources needed to help youth make the connections they need to education, employment, health care, housing, and supportive personal and community relationships.

As a grant-making foundation, the Initiative supports successful community-based efforts that create opportunities and build assets for youth leaving foster care through grants, technical assistance, and coalition building with multiple stakeholders. Grants are made to qualified nonprofit organizations or governmental agencies by invitation only.

nadid: 12994

Fax: (202) 662-1755

Email: ccleducation@abanet.org

The Legal Center for Foster Care & Education (Legal Center FCE) serves as a national technical assistance resource and information clearinghouse on legal and policy matters affecting the education of children in the foster care system. The Legal Center FCE provides expertise to States and constituents, facilitates networking to advance promising practices and reforms, and provides technical assistance and training to respond to the ever-growing demands for legal support and guidance. The Legal Center FCE is a collaboration between Casey Family Programs and the ABA Center on Children and the Law, in conjunction with the Education Law Center-PA and the Juvenile Law Center.

nadid: 23582

Phone: (941) 751-1901

Email: info@fiveptg.com

Developed by Five Points Technology Group and designed by youth formerly in foster care, My JumpVault helps youth safely archive personal records like health, employment, and education documentation, and it allows youth to store helpful tips, resources, reminders, photographs, and more via a secure website.

nadid: 29855

Phone: (415) 502-4856

Fax: (415) 502-4858

Email: justine.po@ucsf.edu

The overall goal of the National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC) is to improve the health of adolescents by serving as a national resource for adolescent health information and research, and to assure the integration, synthesis, coordination and dissemination of adolescent health-related information.

The NAHIC was established with funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is based within the University of California, San Francisco's Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Institute for Health Policy Studies.

nadid: 24029

Phone: (303) 864-5320

Toll-Free: (888) 828-NACC

Fax: (303) 864-5351

Email: advocate@NACCchildlaw.org

The National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) works to improve the legal protection and representation of children by training and educating child advocates. The NACC sponsors conferences and seminars on important issues confronting child advocates and files amicus curiae briefs in selected court cases affecting children. The Association also has a national child advocate awards program, and a speakers bureau.

nadid: 11130

Phone: (412) 227-6950

Fax: (412) 227-6955

Email: ncjj@ncjfcj.org

The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) is the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ). NCJJ is a resource for independent and original research on topics related directly and indirectly to the field of juvenile justice.

nadid: 25136

Phone: (301) 608-8098

Fax: (301) 828-1506

TTY: (833) 438-7494

Email: GetRHYi@NCHYF.org

The National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth (NCFY) is a free information service for communities, organizations, and individuals interested in developing new and effective strategies for supporting young people and their families.

NCFY was established by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to link those interested in youth issues with the resources they need to better serve young people, families, and communities.

nadid: 11004

Phone: (202) 403-5000

Fax: (202) 403-5001

Email: NDTAC@air.org

The National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk (NDTAC) serves as a national resource center to provide direct assistance to States, schools, communities, and parents seeking information on the education of children and youth who are considered neglected, delinquent, or at-risk. The education of youth involved in the juvenile justice system is a primary focus of the Center.

The NDTAC website is intended to serve as a tool and to provide examples of work being done in the field. The website was created and is maintained by American Institutes for Research (AIR) through funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

nadid: 25135

Phone: (202) 280-2039

General Scope: The National Foster Care Coalition (NFCC) is a broadly based national, nonpartisan partnership of individuals, organizations, foundations, and associations dedicated to improving the lives of children currently in the foster care system and all of the others who have been, or will be, involved in the foster care system.

nadid: 24048

Phone: (213) 221-1176

Email: info@nfyi.org

The National Foster Youth Institute (NFYI) was created to organize foster youth and families, foster care alumni, and allies in Congress and across the country, to advocate for the transformation of the nations child welfare system.

nadid: 29210

Phone: (202) 347-2080

Fax: (202) 393-4517

Email: info@nassembly.org

The mission of the National Human Services Assembly is to engage leaders of the national nonprofit health and human service sector in collective efforts to advance the effectiveness of health and human services in the United States.

nadid: 19683

Phone: (503) 717-1552

Fax: (503) 717-1702

Email: info@fosterclub.com

FosterClub's mission is to provide encouragement, motivation, information, education, and benefits for foster youth.

nadid: 20223

Phone: (202) 783-7949

Fax: (202) 783-7955

Email: member@nn4youth.org

The National Network engages in public education efforts and promotes the delivery of high-quality programs and services by agencies serving youth. The organization also provides training and technical assistance in Community Youth Development, youth leadership, peer education, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention, grant writing, and organizational development. The National Network for Youth also advocates for key legislation and spending affecting youth.

nadid: 11022

Phone: (202) 780-5928

Fax: (202) 659-0399

Email: nyec@nyec.org

The National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) strives to improve the effectiveness of organizations that seek to help youth become productive citizens. Toward this end, NYEC sets and promotes quality standards; tracks, crafts and influences policy; provides and supports professional development, and builds the capacity of organizations and programs.

nadid: 21744

Phone: (510) 654-4004

Toll-Free: (877) 380-5300

Fax: (510) 317-1426

Email: info@senecacenter.org

General Scope: Seneca Family of Agencies (formerly Seneca Center) provides a broad continuum of permanency, mental health, education, and juvenile justice services to youth and families throughout California and Washington State each year.
Training Specific: Information on training is available on the Training Registration Page .

nadid: 24028

Phone: (512) 471-7191

Phone: (512) 475-7892

SPARK seeks to empower former foster youth by providing necessary support systems to attend the university. Spark serves as a resource to help students build meaningful personal and professional relationships that are important to success.

nadid: 24211

Phone: (800) 232-4636

TTY: (888) 232-6348

General Scope: Stryving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere (STRYVE) replaces the former National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC). STRYVE is a national initiative, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which takes a public health approach to preventing youth violence before it starts. STRYVE Online provides communities with the knowledge and resources to be successful in preventing youth violence.

Training Specific: The Training Section provides online links to modules specifically produced for STRYVE. The Online Training is designed to help individuals, groups, organizations, and communities become acquainted with the key concepts and strategies of youth violence prevention. For more information, please see: https://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/.

nadid: 12617

Phone: (617) 303-4600

Phone: (703) 224-2200

Email: info@mentoring.org

MENTOR is an advocate and resource for the expansion of mentoring initiatives nationwide. It works with a network of State and local Mentoring Partnerships to leverage resources and provide the support and tools that mentoring organizations need to effectively serve young people in their communities.

nadid: 24030

Phone: (412)366-6562

Fax: (412)366-5407

Youth Collaboratory harnesses the power of the youth services community to innovate, evaluate, and drive effective strategies that assure the safety and well-being of youth and young adults, unlocking their limitless potential.

nadid: 11415

Youth MOVE National is a youth-driven, chapter-based organization dedicated to improving services and systems that support positive growth and development by uniting the voices of individuals who have lived experience in various systems—including mental health, juvenile justice, education, and child welfare.

nadid: 30229