Search the FASD Resource Directory for FASD United affiliates, diagnostic services, support groups, prevention programs, and other resources. Due to a lack of trained professionals and recognition of FASD it can be a challenge to quickly identify accessible FASD-informed services. … Read More
Child Well-Being
The Unintended Consequences of“Lack of Supervision”Child Neglect Laws: How Developmental Science Can Inform Policies about Childhood Independence and Child Protection
Policies and programs designed to serve children and families are built upon a general understanding of child development. Developmental research has tried to expand that understanding and determine the typical ages at which children acquire certain skills and capabilities, while … Read More
Discrimination In Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence From Child Protection
Introduction Large racial disparities have been documented in many high-stakes settings—such as employment, healthcare, housing, and criminal justice—raising concerns of discrimination by individual decision-makers. At the same time, there is growing understanding that a focus on individual decisions can yield … Read More
Prenatal Drug Exposure: CAPTA Reporting Requirements for Medical Professionals
Why use this fact sheet? As medical professionals who work with pregnant patients, you face numerous medical, legal, and ethical decision points when treating a patient for substance use during pregnancy, and when providing care to a neonate with drug … Read More
Recommendations for Regulating Artificial Intelligence to Minimize Risks to Children and Their Families
From January 2023 to March 2024, multiple entities have published guidance on artificial intelligence (AI), underscoring growing public concerns regarding AI governance. Meanwhile, as federal and state legislators weigh the need for AI regulations to safeguard the public from various risks, recent discourse … Read More
Using Personal Experience To Improve Human Services
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF PROGRAMS AND POLICIES The movement toward employing professionals with personal experiences with systems is rooted in both moral arguments and practical considerations: “Our takeaways from this paper are straightforward: When you bring personal experience into program design, … Read More
Connecting Sex Trafficking Survivors To Education And Jobs
Wellspring Living, a grantee of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a nonprofit that serves survivors of sex trafficking and those at risk for exploitation. Based in Metro Atlanta, a city with one the highest rates of human trafficking in the United States, the organization … Read More
Using Strength And Challenges To Measure Youth Well-Being
WHAT IS STRENGTH-BASED MEASUREMENT? A Landscape Scan includes background on the movement toward adopting more strength-based approaches in the field of psychology. Traditionally, researchers have focused on the negative forces youth face. This is a holdover from health research, built around mitigating … Read More
Learn The Basics Of Juvenile Justice
UNDERSTANDING JUVENILE JUSTICE JUVENILE DETENTION DIVERSION, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND YOUTH PROBATION READ MORE
Creating Equitable Ecosystems of Belonging and Opportunity for Youth An Action Guide for Cross-System and Sector Leaders and Practitioners
Ecosystem for Youth Belonging and Opportunity The concept of a youth development ecosystem, builds from and expands upon Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, which views child development within the context of the system of relationships that form their environment. Broffenbrenner, … Read More