COFCCA Resource Library
Below are helpful resources and informational pieces we have gathered. We also have a list of links to various organizations, government, and advocacy organizations. Please go to our links page or click here.
Reports of Interest:
- Findings from a study on the financial lives of youth transitioning from foster care
- Find out what jurisdictions around the country are doing to reform juvenile justice in new report
- Safe Horizon Partners on Guide to Identifying Human Trafficking Victims (September 2012); Summary of Report and Link to Download Report
- The Measure of Success of a Society: Protection of Vulnerable Persons in Residentail Faciltities Against Abuse and Neglect – Report to the NYS Governor by Clarence Sundrum, Governor’s Special Advisor on Vulnerable Persons, December 2011
National Resource Information:
- National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology Releases Social Media Resource Guide
- National Resource Center for Youth Development Guide to Educate Foster Youth about Psychotropic Meds - A guide written for youth in foster care with input from youth and professionals
- ACF IM on Psychotropic Medication: US Department of Health and Human Services – Administration for Children and Family (ACF) Informational Memo (IM) Re: Promoting the Safe, Appropriate, and Effective Use of Psychotropic Meds for Children in Foster Care
NYS Informational Handbooks and Programs:
- NYS Kinship Guardianship Program
- NYS Handbook for Relatives Raising Children
- NYS Foster Parents Guide to Adoption
- NYS Foster Parent Manual
- Handbook for Youth in Foster Care
- B2H Program Manual 01-2012
NYS OCFS Foster Care Rates:
NYC Programs and Information:
Trauma Information:
- Chapin Hall Paper on Predicting the Prognosis for Reunification uses ACE Assessment, Finds Parents in Child Welfare Cases had Own Childhood Trauma (.pdf, 40pgs)
- Foster Care Kids Learn Resilience From Compassion… By Rick Nauert Click linkfor summary or click link below for full article: http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/07/23/foster-kids-learn-resilience-from-compassion/42094.html
- Foster Care Kids Learn Resilience Summary Intro: A new cognitively based intervention has been shown to improve the mental health of adolescents in foster care…
- The Psych Approach, an ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) informed article, by David Brooks, NYT Opinion Page