Positive Youth Development
In this 2023 National Adoption Month webinar recording, child welfare professionals and young people who have navigated out-of-home care discuss the critical role of connection in the lives of youth. The webinar explores concrete and successful strategies to empower professionals to better connect with youth, ultimately fostering a sense of ...
This webpage shares resources to help child welfare professionals as they permanency plan with youth. The webpage provides links to resources on culturally responsive practices, identity development, and youth engagement. Learn more.
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 ...
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 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.
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This webpage provides a detailed overview of Youth Advisory Councils (YACs). It describes the role YACs play in improving the schools and communities they serve, discusses how they can use data to make decisions and create action plans, and outlines the structure of a YAC. Learn more.
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.
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This animated video offers those who work with, coach, teach, or care for adolescents a brief introduction to co-regulation support rooted in evidence-informed strategies to foster self-regulation in youth. From their middle school years through young adulthood, youth need trusted adults to help them build self-regulation. Learn more and watch.
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Date: September 27, 2023, 1:00–2:00 pm ET
This webinar will discuss the Participatory Systems Change for Equity framework, which is an approach to systems transformation that centers the expertise of those most impacted by child-, youth-, and family-serving systems to understand and interrupt inequitable system conditions. This session will review how ...
This brief summarizes the topics addressed in a workshop about incorporating mental health prevention and promotion strategies into systems and programs for children and youth support. Learn more.
