Announcements

This report explains issues of chronic absenteeism, truancy, prevention, and intervention processes among Tribal youth. It addresses historic education policy and contemporary approaches utilized by Tribal communities to prevent and address truancy among Tribal youth and highlights helpful community-based approaches to support delinquency prevention program development.  

The publication includes strategic planning activities to support individual or team development of a truancy prevention program. Learn more. 

This story-based module empowers educators and school professionals to learn what Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are — including risk and protective factors — and recognize when they’re affecting student success. It also offers information about implementing effective prevention and intervention strategies. The module can be completed for continuing education credit. Learn more. 

This webpage links to resources that provide information on housing issues related to child welfare and programs to assist families experiencing housing instability. Resources on caregiver housing insecurity are provided in addition to resources on homelessness and housing insecurity for youth who are aging out of the foster care system. Learn more. 

This webpage provides links to curricula and related training materials for child welfare professionals. The page includes lists of national and state training organizations and schools of social work. Learn more. 

This bulletin provides information about the issues that LGBTQ+ youth who are adopted face, as well as resources to create a supportive and affirming child welfare practice. Learn more. 

This article highlights a recent webinar where youth spoke candidly about their needs when reentering their communities after confinement in residential facilities. The article also explores panelists’ suggestions on how to better prepare system-involved youth for life in their communities. Learn more. 

These latest findings from the School Pulse Panel (SPP) examine learning recovery, summer learning, staff vacancies, COVID-19 mitigation strategies, learning modes offered by schools, and student and staff quarantine prevalence as reported by school leaders in U.S. public schools. Learn more. 

This webpage provides a list of resources to help meet the educational needs of children and youth in out-of-home care. State and local examples of effective policies and practices are included. Learn more. 

This fact sheet (PDF, 10 pages) provides birth, foster, and adoptive parents and other caregivers with information about the best way to resolve their differences with a child welfare service provider or other related professional. The document discusses many of the challenges experienced by families involved with the child protective services system and highlights available grievance channels. Learn more.  

This webpage provides a list of resources on accessing higher-education opportunities and financial scholarships for youth in or aging out of the foster care system. Learn more. 

In this podcast series, presenters explore the dynamics that rural YouthBuild programs experience during program planning, implementation, and program sustainability efforts. The following four episodes are now available:  

• Episode 1: Strategic Planning and Program Implementation 

• Episode 2: Program Design and Participant Services 

• Episode 3: Service Delivery and Staffing 

• Episode 4: Registered Apprenticeship 

Learn more.  

This webpage provides parents with tips to make sure their child with epilepsy gets the care and support they need during the school day. Learn more. 

August is National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM). This annual observance highlights the importance of protecting people of all ages against vaccine-preventable diseases through on-time vaccination. Learn more. 

This webpage provides resources on how the school system identifies, responds, and provides support to children, youth, and families exposed to domestic violence. The page also offers support to parents and caregivers who may be victims of domestic violence. Learn more.  

This site invites users to submit input on how to implement OJJDP’s current priority areas (PDF, 6 pages). This page is just one way that individuals and organizations can share feedback on the Office’s priorities – OJJDP has also been hosting a series of listening sessions and town halls with stakeholders, national partners, and youth throughout summer 2022. Learn more. 

This report (PDF, 24 pages) highlights patterns of juvenile court referrals of more than 160,000 youth born in 2000. It also describes the demographic and case processing characteristics of youth referred to juvenile court. Learn more. 

Episodes one and two of the new five-part podcast series entitled Advances in Supporting Kinship Caregivers are now available. The first episode features a discussion of Rhode Island’s approach to kinship support services and the second episode focuses on Washington State’s approach to providing kinship support services. Topics discussed in the two episodes include but are not limited to: 

• Why kinship caregivers should be treated differently by agencies and caseworkers, and the specific challenges kinship caregivers face. 

• How to strengthen relationships between caseworkers and kinship caregivers. 

• Differences in formal and informal kinship caregivers and the differences caseworkers may have to navigate when working with each. 

• Cultural considerations caseworkers and others should be aware of when working with rural Latinx communities and families. 

Episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and SoundCloud.  

This fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) provides an overview of drug court and other problem-solving court program models for adults and youth alike. The document provides information on available guidance, programs, and research resources with hyperlinks to current training and technical assistance providers and relevant documents. Learn more. 

This study examined whether the proportion of children and adolescents who are at risk for mental disorders is similar over time. Findings can be used for community-level planning to support the mental health of children and adolescents and provide prevention and intervention services when needed. Learn more.  

This article offers healthy ways for children and teens to cope with stress. It addresses sources of stress for adolescents and teens and how to recognize the signs of stress, provides stress management tools for teens, and discusses how parents or guardians and psychologists can help. Learn more.