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Julie Treinen & Michele Schmidt - Children's Bureau,

This podcast gives listeners an overview of how Arizona Kinship Support Services implements the Family Group Conference (FGC) model.

Child Welfare Information Gateway,

This bulletin offers information to help US child welfare agency managers by providing strategies for achieving reunification and preventing reentry and includes examples of promising practices being implemented by States and localities.

Saara Amri - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,

The objective of this presentation is to highlight, through the presentation of a clinical case example, how a community-based social services agency, such as Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS), responds to the psychosocial needs of unaccompanied minors and their families and addresses and mediates barriers to successful family reunification.

Lauren Marlotte - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,

This talk will explore the adaptation of FOCUS, an evidence-based, skill-building preventive intervention, for foster families and foster youth in college and provide clinical adaptations.

Jeanne Miranda - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,

The goal of this presentation is to describe a unique manualized Adoption-Specific Intervention (ADAPT) intervention, developed specifically for families adopting older foster care youth. Important lessons for mental health clinicians working with families of adopted youth will be discussed.

John Sargent - Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry,

This presentation will discuss methods of assisting reconnection and reunification in families of unaccompanied minors immigrating to the US.

Urban Institute under contract to the U.S. Administration for Children and Families,

Aiming to assist providers to identify and better serve the needs of youth victims of human trafficking, this study developed and pretested a Human Trafficking Screening Tool used to identify youth in the child welfare system and runaway and homeless youth who have experiences of trafficking, 

Ramona Denby, Efren Gomez, and Richard V. Reeves - Brookings Institution,

This report explores the challenges of implementing and evaluating relationship-based interventions for young people with experience in the U.S. foster care system and presents recommendations for both practitioners and researchers for successful implementation and evaluation in the future. 

Adrienne L. Fernandes-Alcantara - Congressional Research Service,

This report explores federal programs available to support youth aging out of foster care in the US.

Sacha Klein, Lauren Fries, Mary M. Emmons - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study explores the possibility that early care and education (ECE) services (e.g., child care, preschool, day care) can help the Child Welfare System achieve its goal.