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Administration for Children and Families

This guide (PDF, 22 pages) provides resources to assess and address social influences of health and education (SIHE) affecting students, their families, and communities. The resource provides tools and practical strategies for identifying root causes of identified or emerging problems and shares effective interventions to reduce social and environmental barriers ...
This webpage shares stories from youth and adoptive families about the importance of youth having their voices heard and the impact building a relationship based on mutual trust can have on a young person’s life. Child welfare professionals may use these stories to help discuss permanency planning with youth. Learn ...
November is National Adoption Month (NAM). NAM seeks to increase national awareness of adoption issues, bring attention to the need for adoptive families for teens in the foster care system, and emphasize the value of youth engagement. This year's theme, "Empowering Youth: Finding Points of Connection," emphasizes professionals' important role ...
This webpage shares resources to help educators and school staff prevent, identify, and assist victims of child abuse and neglect. Learn more. 
This brief describes strategies for redesigning the child welfare service array to meet the needs of young people currently and formerly in foster care. The resource focuses on topics such as housing, healthcare and mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and education. The brief includes a worksheet for practitioners to ...
This tool offers resources to help young people better understand the different aspects of youth engagement and empowerment to advocate for themselves and their goals more effectively within the child welfare system. The strategies offered throughout this resource are informed by lived experience experts. Learn more.  ...
This hotline provides free, 24/7 support for people experiencing or witnessing domestic violence and for abusive partners trying to change themselves. This resource also provides information on how to identify abuse, how to create a plan for safety, and how to help others if you are a concerned friend or ...
This webpage contains materials from OPRE’s “Self-Regulation and Toxic Stress” series. This series communicates the potential of a self-regulation framework for strengthening prevention programs and human services. The webpage features reports, briefs, infographics, tip sheets, and additional resources. Learn more.  ...
This starter kit (PDF, 10 pages) seeks to help child support agencies, grant recipients, and other stakeholders:  Identify and recruit individuals with lived experience  Determine equitable compensation for people with lived experience  Engage respectfully and effectively with people with lived experience  Learn more.  ...
This fact sheet (PDF, 8 pages) provides caseworkers with an overview of current and historical issues affecting child welfare practice with American Indian and Alaska Native families, practice implications, and cultural considerations. Learn more. 
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