Protect children from exploitation by recognizing the risk factors and warning signs, knowing how to respond, and supporting students who have been victimized. Child exploitation can take many forms and affect young people of any background, demographic, or geographic location. … Read More
Child Well-Being
Four Ways That Courts Can Actively Engage Children and Youth Involved in Child Welfare Proceedings.
Children and youth are experts on their own lives, but often they are not engaged meaningfully in their own child welfare cases by court professionals. They frequently have little or no power over important aspects of their lives that are … Read More
Spotlight on the Title IV-E Prevention Program and the Family First Prevention Services Act
CBX edition highlights the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), which was enacted to enhance support services for families to help children remain at home, reduce the unnecessary use of congregate care, and build the capacity of communities to support … Read More
Transforming Experience Through HOPE
Grounded in the work of the HOPE National Resource Center, this module builds understanding of how positive early experiences can set us on trajectories that promote health and well-being and result in good outcomes later in life. READ MORE
Tools That Teach: What is Human Trafficking?
The Blue Campaign infographic resources will help you to answer the question, “What is Human Trafficking?” Please help to bring this crime out of the shadows by sharing these materials on social media. WATCH VIDEO
Barriers to Authentic Youth Engagement in Permanency Planning
The Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency (QIC-EY) is a cooperative agreement, funded by the Children’s Bureau, which is charged with advancing child welfare programs and practice to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare … Read More
Webinar Features Intentional Approaches for Partnering With Individuals With Lived Experience in an Agency Setting
AdoptUSKids hosted a webinar, “Peer Support Matters: Strategies to Incorporate and Elevate Those With Lived Experience in Your Support of Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families,” that provides strategies for agencies to intentionally include those with lived experience into their support programs. The … Read More
Gender Differences in Sexual Well-Being and Sexual Identity Development among Youth Formerly in the Foster Care System in the United States
Abstract Little research has heretofore examined differences in the sexual well-being and sexual health outcomes between female and male youth in the foster care system. This cross-sectional study examined these differences and as well as how sexual identity development impacts … Read More
Community Prevention of Child Maltreatment:
Lessons Learned and Promising Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic The Child Welfare Community Collaborations (CWCC) initiative is a set of cooperative agreements funded by the Children’s Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) “that support the development, implementation, … Read More
Inclusive & Innovative Assessments for Students With Learning Disabilities
Introduction and Summary The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a national conversation about the role of public education, what should be taught, and what makes a high-quality education. The mental, emotional, and physical health of students was a pillar in the debate … Read More