The COVID-19 public health crisis has created challenges for young parents in foster care. Child welfare practitioners can more effectively support this population by deepening their understanding and identifying resources. Learn about the unique needs of young parents in care.
Protests have amplified the need for complex conversations about racial inequity. To help, the Equity Conversation Guides for Young Leaders and Partners provide instructions for facilitators to lead groups in understanding the history of structural racism and how it operates today. Read more.
A new webinar explores the Annie E. Casey Foundation's online resource for helping child welfare practitioners partner with expectant and parenting youth.
As the nation grapples with the public health crisis of COVID-19, child welfare systems must prioritize the urgent and unique needs of older youth in foster care and those who have left (or aged out of) foster care without permanent family connections. Read seven recommendations for young people.
Foster care is a temporary living situation for children whose parents can't take care of them and whose need for care has come to the attention of child welfare. Learn more about foster care and foster parents here.
The research organization Child Trends has launched an online resource offering science-based definitions for terms and concepts related to adolescent development.
A special two-volume issue of Child Welfare features two articles penned by staffers of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The articles address two significant aspects of young people in foster care: youth engagement and keeping young people in families.
Kate Lodge is the executive director and vice president of strategic initiatives at A Place 4 Me. In this post, Lodge describes how Cleveland had adopted innovative practices, such as the hiring of peer navigators, to tackle youth homelessness.
Debra Jenkins-Kearney and Claire Graves talk about the work of Mississippi Youth Voice and about the impact and importance of youth-adult partnerships in their work.
Through authentic youth engagement, young people can use their unique experiences to shape better futures for those transitioning from foster care to adulthood. Toward that end, it is important to include the perspectives of expectant and parenting youth, who may have scheduling and day care needs, among others.
