How does My Community Cares in Louisiana build strong neighborhoods that keep families together?
Explore how My Community Cares supports and strengthens families in Louisiana through community-based programs and services.
Mental health
Culture Forward: A strengths and culture based tool to protect our Native youth from suicide
This tool provides resources from across Indian Country to leverage strengths within tribal communities to protect Native youth from suicide.
Child and Family Services (CFS) Practice Model: A Safe and Permanent Family for Every Youth
This practice model outlines strategies and interventions that advance Casey Family Programs’ focus on permanency for youth.
Why should child protection agencies become trauma-informed?
Youth in foster care have high rates of trauma exposure. A trauma-informed child protection system can mitigate trauma’s adverse effects.
Building the bridge
A study of high service users among youth in foster care in Tennessee and Florida using linked Medicaid and child welfare data.
Dr. William C. Bell: Now is the time for real mental health care
Dr. William C. Bell addressed the Project AWARE grantee convening on July 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
Addressing Unaddressed Needs: Helping Agencies Target Services to Children and Caregivers in Child Welfare
Children and caregivers in the child welfare system have a high degree of unmet service needs.
How do youth placed in foster care fare once they grow up?
The Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study provided a clearer picture of how alumni were functioning after they left care.
Child Protective Services Reintegration Project: Permanency Outcomes for Youth with Complex Mental Health Needs
The CPS Reintegration Project provides an extensive network of services to caregivers of youth in foster care who have at least one DSM-IV diagnosis.
Mental Health, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Spirituality Among Youth in Foster Care
Interviewers surveyed 188 adolescents in care, including questions on mental health, spirituality, ethnic identity, gender identity and sexual orientation.