Goal Three: Promote Safety and Well-being of Children, Youth and Families
3.1 Promote permanency in families
- 3.1.1 To increase the availability of trauma-informed practices to the field to be used as a treatment alternative or augmentation to psychotropic medications - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.1.2 To increase the availability of mental health services to the field - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.1.3 To improve the Child and Family Services Review monitoring process and make improvements known to a wide audience - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
3.2 Encourage healthy behavior/reduce risky behaviors
- 3.2.1 To enhance sharing of information and best practices regarding populations served by both the Children’s Bureau and the Family Youth Service Bureau - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.2.2 To foster collaborations between agencies across HHS and the Federal Government by participating in working groups, detailing staff, and providing joint technical assistance - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
3.3 Increase the educational opportunities for children and youth in foster care
- 3.3.1 To support strategic partnerships between state and local child welfare agencies, educational agencies and the courts to design and implement plans to improve educational outcomes for children and youth in foster care - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.3.2 To provide discretionary grants to states to create child welfare and education collaborations focusing on children aging out of foster care, as well as younger children in foster care - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
3.4 Encourage healthy and optimal child and adolescent development
- 3.4.1 To convene a conference to identify protective factors that facilitate healthy development and healing and recovery for vulnerable children and youth - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.4.2 To provide discretionary grants to support strategies to help older youth still involved with the child welfare system to develop skills to strengthen and manage relationships with biological family members and other important individuals in their lives - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.4.3 To formally encourage appropriate states to focus teen pregnancy prevention funding on their child welfare populations - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
3.5 Build community capacity to support safety and well-being
- 3.5.1 To require a well-being component in Community-based Child Abuse Prevention grants - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.5.2 To require a well-being component in Regional Partnership grants - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.5.3 To require approved projects resulting from the recently renewed child welfare waiver authority to include a well-being framework - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
3.6 Promote successful transition of youth to independence
- 3.6.1 To promote asset building for young people who have been in foster care - Administration on Children, Youth and FamiliesF
- 3.6.2 To promote policies and programs supporting development of independence/self-sufficiency skills for youth who continue to get subsidized support through age 21 - Administration on Children, Youth and Families
- 3.6.3 To support permanent connections with responsible adults for youth who are in or have been in foster care - Administration on Children, Youth and Families