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This brief describes potential cultural adaptations in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for transition-age youth and young adults in foster care through the Youth Transitions Program in Alameda County, California during the Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) grant program funded by the Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

Explore an infographic from the Fathers and Continuous Learning project, which describes opportunities for a father or paternal relative to be engaged during the lifecycle of a child welfare case.

Read NSCAW's Services to Support Children Living in Kinship and Nonrelative Foster Care brief to explore how service needs and receipt may vary for children removed from their home and their caregivers when the experiences of voluntary and formal kinship care.

These presentation slides summarize the methods and findings from two OPRE studies on post adoption and guardianship instability, including the NSCAW Adoption Study and the Agency Contact Study.

This brief describes the tools and processes YARH-2 grantees implemented to identify and screen youth and young adults who might be eligible to participate in their comprehensive service model.

This brief describes how the Youth Transitions Partnership in Alameda County, California revised their program enrollment materials to improve youth enrollment and early engagement during the Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) grant program funded by the Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

Read about the adaptation of an online training for parents and caregivers of youth in foster care on adolescent sexual health topics.

The NSCAW Adoption Study examines the extent to which children who exit foster care to adoption experience instability, the risk and protective factors for several types of formal (e.g., foster care reentry) and informal (e.g., child runs away or experiences homelessness) instability, and services and supports received by families who have adopted children who exited foster care.

Post adoption and guardianship instability, when children who have exited foster care to adoption and guardianship no longer live with their adoptive parent or legal guardian, occurs between 5% and 20% of the time. The Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability Tracking Toolkit is designed to help child welfare agencies develop a systematic way to track instability for children who exit foster care through adoption or guardianship.

The Cross Jurisdiction Model Replication (CJMR) project sought to understand the degree to which a risk prediction model built from population-level and anonymized birth records in one state could be used to differentiate the risk of foster care placement in other jurisdictions.