Runaway and Homeless Youth

This webinar discussed a pattern of children and youth sleeping in child protective services office buildings, hotels, and caseworker cars. Panelists consider how youth enter these situations in the first place, what barriers to placement exist, and how this complex issue can be solved. Learn more.  ...

This report (PDF, 30 pages) uses data from the 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to examine the prevalence of homelessness and housing instability among LGBTQ youth and their mental health symptoms. It also examines rates of homelessness and housing instability among various subgroups within the LGBTQ community ...

This toolkit aims to help professionals working with runaway and homeless youth and domestic and sexual assault victims. The toolkit includes information and resources on the following:  Key terms and definitions  Finding common ground between services for runaway and homeless youth and victims of intimate partner violence  Sex trafficking of minors  The runaway and ...

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 ...