Foster Our Futu Webcast Archive,Dependent Youth Aging Out of Foster Ca A Guidebook for Judges,The Foster Care Straitjacket: Innovation, Federal Financing &

Foster Our Futu Webcast Archive
http://event.netbriefings.com/event/...unternrcfcpp4/
If you missed the March 17 webcast on Foster Care Month, you can
download the materials and view the archived video at this site.

Dependent Youth Aging Out of Foster Ca A Guidebook for Judges
http://www.jlc.org/home/publications
The Juvenile Law Center says judges should treat decisions affecting
older youth -- especially those who, at 18, are aging out of the
foster
care system – as seriously as those affecting young children in public
care. This guidebook outlines questions judges should answer when
ruling on permanency or discharge plans for youth in foster care.

Putting the Pieces Together: 1st National Conference on Substance
Abuse, Child Welfare and the Dependency Court
http://conferences.jbs.biz/women_and...ther/index.htm
The goal of this conference is to bring together practitioners,
researchers, policymakers and front-line workers from a wide range of
agencies serving families involved in the child welfare system as a
result of parental substance abuse in order to 1) encourage cross
discipline interaction to suggest new models of collaboration for
service delivery; and 2) disseminate the latest state-of-the-art
research and practice experience about the intersect between substance
abuse and child welfare involved families. July 14-25, 2004;
Baltimore,
MD.

The Foster Care Straitjacket: Innovation, Federal Financing &
Accountability in State Foster Care Reform
http://www.fosteringresults.org/results/reports.htm
This report from Fostering Results shows that state efforts to reform
troubled foster care systems are hampered by federal financing rules.
The report highlights a common hurdle faced by nearly every state--the
inability to spend federal dollars earmarked for foster care on
services that could actually help give children safer, more stable,
permanent homes.

“Crack Babies" All Grown Up
http://www.youthcomm.org/Publications/FCYU.htm
Crack cocaine-exposed babies born in the 1980s swelled the foster care
population and raised alarms. Now they're young adults -- debunking
myths, disproving nay-sayers, and telling their own stories in the
newest issue of Represent Magazine from Youth Communication.
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