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CWLA Best practice guidelines: Serving LGBT youth in out-of-home care
URL: http://www.nclrights.org/site/DocServer/bestpracticeslgbtyouth.pdf?docID=1322
These best practice guidelines provide direction to agencies responsible for the care of LGBT youth in out-of-home care specifically, child welfare and juvenile justice professionals. Based on the Legal Services for Children and the National Center for Lesbian Rights' Model Standards Project, the guidelines address the institutional failure to consider gender orientation or identity, an consideration necessary in order to provide appropriate and equitable care to LGBT youth in state custody.
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Endangered youth: A report on suicide among adolescents involved with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems
URL: http://www.chdi.org/publications.php?category=juvenile-justice
This report familiarizes professionals from a broad range of agencies with an interdisciplinary framework that addresses the suicide risk factors for children, youth and their families involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Case studies illustrate the challenges confronting families, communities and professionals, while offering opportunities for learning and development of effective service delivery.
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Ensuring the seventh generation: A youth suicide prevention toolkit for tribal child welfare programs
URL: http://www.nicwa.org/YouthSuicidePreventionToolkit/YSPToolkit.pdf
This toolkit is intended for tribal child welfare workers and care providers. It discusses: child and youth suicide risk factors; specific risk factors associated with children served in child welfare; warning signs for caseworkers and care providers to be alert to; suicide prevention and intervention strategies that can be applied in child welfare agencies; and mobilization of support networks around particular children.
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Mental health outcomes of the Northwest Foster Care alumni study
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/OBrien_Foster.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. Overviews the National Child Welfare statistics. Discusses the Northwest study results and recommendations.
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Services for youth and families in kinship care: Summary of the Special Forum held at the 2006 Georgetown University Training Institutes
URL: http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/programs/ta_center/TrainingInstitutes/SpecialForums/Services%20for%20Youth%20in%20Kinship%20Care.pdf
Describes the Florida Kinship Center at the University of South Florida from the program organizers and provider’s perspectives.
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Strategies for working in foster care settings (Presentation)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/Collins_WorkingFosterCareSettings.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. Discusses: why children and youth come into foster care; what unique mental health needs these children have; and working with the Child Welfare System.
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Youth suicide and self-harm: What advocates need to know
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/PilnikABA_suicidepreventionandFC.pdf
This article was developed for attorneys who work with adolescents in the child welfare system. It provides background information on youth suicide and self-harm and describes what attorneys can do to identify warning signs and ensure that at-risk youth receive the mental health care they need. It also describes ways attorneys can help reduce risk factors, promote protective factors, and advocate for policy change.
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