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Training for Professionals Working With Youth
Resources include training curricula and materials for child welfare caseworkers on working with youth involved with the child welfare system, addressing topics such as adolescent development, youth involvement, substance use, and more. Resources include State and local examples.
2007 CFSR Toolkit for Youth Involvement: Engaging Youth in the Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 3119 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement & National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development (2007)
Offers practical strategies for collaborating with youth in the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR).
Activity: Defining "Youth" and "Adult" (PDF - 135 KB)
Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
Collective Leadership Works: Preparing Youth and Adults for Community Changes, 2008
Helps partners, groups, and organizations begin to define the terms "youth" and "adult" and to strengthen the partnership through a better understanding of what each age group brings to it.
Community Collaboration Tool
Building Partnerships for Youth (2006)
Offers a customizable PowerPoint presentation that may be used to engage key stakeholders at the State or community level around issues important for the health, education, and well-being of young people.
Growing Up in a New Country: A Positive Youth Development Toolkit for Working with Refugees and Immigrants (PDF - 803 KB)
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (2006)
Provides information on resource materials to assist service providers in developing quality programming for refugee and immigrant youth.
Moving the Margins: Training Curriculum for Child Welfare Services With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth in Out-of-Home Care (PDF - 2621 KB)
National Association of Social Workers & Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund (2009)
Provides training on building the capacity, awareness, and skills of social workers and other child welfare practitioners to better serve and respond to the needs of this population.
Increasing Youth Participation in Service and Treatment Planning: Tools and Strategies (PDF - 635 KB)
Portland State University (2008)
Presents slides to be used in a training for professionals working with youth in foster care. The slides explore strategies for increasing the level of participation of youth in foster care in treatment planning.
State and local examples
Adolescent Issues: Risk, Resiliency, and Positive Youth Development
Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program (2008)
Educates caseworkers about the stages of adolescent development, outcomes for maltreated adolescents, protective factors associated with resiliency, key characteristics of positive youth development, and more.
Advocating for the Educational Needs of Children in Out-of-Home Care: Training Curriculum for Child Welfare Caseworkers and Supervisors (PDF - 499 KB)
Ward & Herrick (2010)
Provides Colorado child welfare caseworkers and supervisors with the tools to enable them to advocate for the educational needs of children in the child welfare system. Also see the manual. (PDF - 10,066 KB)
Curriculum for Trainers: Putting the Pieces Together -- Supporting Adolescent Success
Juvenile Rights Project, Portland State University (2007)
Prepares professionals for working with adolescents who have experienced abuse and neglect. Modules address the teenage brain, building relationships with youth, cultural considerations, independent living, and more.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth in the Child Welfare System
Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program (2003)
Assists caseworkers in being aware of the needs of LGBTQ youth in the child welfare system and knowing how to address and meet those needs.
Truancy Prevention Intervention
Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program (2003)
Identifies risk factors for truancy and describes prevention and intervention practices for youth service providers. The training also addresses collaboration with communities and schools.
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