Achieving Excellence: Model Standards for Serving Victims & Survivors of Crime. This e-publication provides guidelines and suggestions to help victim service practitioners and program administrators improve the quality and consistency of their response to crime victims. Select from the Program … Read More
Author Archives: Susan Shaffette
Achieving Excellence: Model Standards for Serving Victims & Survivors of Crime
Achieving Excellence: Model Standards for Serving Victims & Survivors of Crime. This e-publication provides guidelines and suggestions to help victim service practitioners and program administrators improve the quality and consistency of their response to crime victims. Select from the Program … Read More
Tags: Victims and Survivors
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Creating LGBTQ Affirming Agencies Video and Guide The Creating LGBTQ Affirming Agencies video and guide builds State and territorial capacity to create culturally inclusive environments within child welfare agencies for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals. Creating a culturally inclusive … Read More
Toolkit to Support Child Welfare Agencies in Serving LGBTQ Children, Youth, and Families
Toolkit to Support Child Welfare Agencies in Serving LGBTQ Children, Youth, and Families As the culture and laws related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals have become more inclusive in recent years, an increasing number of LGBTQ … Read More
Perspectives on Normalcy
Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions The series Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions is designed to support States and territories in implementing training related to the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families … Read More
Tags: Normalcy, Prevention, Sex Trafficking
Professionals, Friends, And Confidants: After-School Staff As Social Support To Low-Income Parents
Policy makers, practitioners, and researchers have emphasized the importance of supportive relationships between staff and parents in early childhood education settings and schools.Author(s): Barnes, Carolyn.;Nolan, Sarah.Published: 2019Journal Name: Children and Youth Services Reviewv. 98, March 2019, p. 238-251Available from: Elsevierhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740918305589
Tags: Child Justice Act, Child Welfare, Children, Prevention, School, Youth
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Judicial Bench Book
Collateral consequences are legal disabilities imposed by law that result from a criminal conviction. The laws that spawn these collateral consequences can create social and economic barriers for those with criminal convictions. They are known to adversely affect adoptions, housing, … Read More
Tags: Attorneys, Bench Book, benchbook, Best Practices, Judges
Advocacy and Child’s Attorney-Client Relationships during COVID-19: A Tip Sheet
What do Youth Need from their Attorneys?In the uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemic, many aspects of life have dramatically changed — schools, court hearings, social events. What has not changed, however, are the critical and urgent needs of youth … Read More
Tags: Advocacy, Child Justice Act, COVID-19, Youth
South Carolina Human Trafficking Task Force 2018 Annual Report
Human trafficking is often referred to as modern day slavery. It is a crime that poses immense human rights, public safety and public health concerns across the globe. In the United States, it has been reported in all 50 states … Read More
Tags: Child Welfare, Trafficking, Youth
Congressman Danny K. Davis Guide for Grandfamilies on COVID-19 Stimulus Payments
IMPORTANT – Certain grandfamily caregivers may need to quickly give the IRS information about their children in order to get stimulus payments for children in 2020; once payments are sent, one likely must wait till 2021 to get any additional … Read More