Runaway and Homeless Youth
This webpage contains videos and discussion guides to explain how and why kinship caregivers foster and adopt relative children and how to better support them.
The discussion guides include reflective activities and questions for individual coaching or to promote collaborative discussions. They also feature templates for goal setting and action planning ...
This training presents educators with approaches to preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and helping students who may already be affected by ACEs. Throughout the training, participants will learn the following:
the definition of ACEs
how ACEs influence child development, health, and success later in life
risk and protective factors for ACEs
ways that ACEs ...
On Friday, August 5, 2022, HB 184, a bill codifying the Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact, became State law. The Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact is a State-Tribal initiative that began in 2017 with 18 Tribal Co-Signers, representing 161 federally recognized Tribes. The Compact was created to address and improve ...
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. ...
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 ...
This website features a new curriculum that is based on research and input from experts, families who have experience with fostering or adopting children, and former foster and adoptive youth. It provides potential foster or adoptive parents with the information and tools needed to parent a child who has experienced ...
This fact sheet presents statistics on increased risks for LGBTQ youth and provides information on how child welfare systems can avoid harmful practices and use healthy approaches when working with LGBTQ children and youth. Learn more.
The redesigned National Foster Care Month website has launched. The website provides information on the history of the National Foster Care Month initiative, links to relevant resources for this May observance, personal narratives from the Reflections: Stories of Foster Care series, and tools to raise awareness about National Foster Care ...
HUD’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) invites homeless assistance providers and their partners to participate in Office Hours to discuss COVID-19 planning and response on Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 PM ET. Presenters from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HUD, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ...
This issue brief (PDF, 16 pages) explores strategies to integrate human trafficking prevention into Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) programs. These strategies emphasize the vital role that trauma informed RHY programs can play in the prevention of sex and labor trafficking among runaway and homeless youth. Learn more (PDF, 16 ...
