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The following links are for resources that could be useful for agencies focused on supporting youth in a strength based way!
a. Search Institute
Search Institute
www.search-institute.org
b. Others
Transitional Youth Resources
Foster Club is the national network for youth in foster care, www.fosterclub.org
Promising Practices: Supporting Transition of Youth Served by the Foster Care System
http://www.ytfg.org/documents/promisingpracticesfostercare.pdf
National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)
Supporting Foster Youth to Achieve Employment and Economic Self Sufficiency
http://www.pccyfs.org/practice_resources/NCWD-Youth_Foster%20Youth_Self-Sufficiency_10-18-05.pdf
Supporting Youth Employment: A Guide for Community Groups
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/19_publication.pdf
Education Development Center, Inc.
Supporting Youth in Transition: A Closer Look
http://main.edc.org/newsroom/closer-look/transition.asp
Reference Guides: National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability/Youth (NCWD) is offering a series of Quick Reference Guides that provides resources on critical topics for administrators, youth service practitioners, and policymakers. Each Guide offers succinct descriptions of a topic with resources that have been identified by experts at NCWD/Youth. The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) assists state and local workforce development systems to better serve youth with disabilities. NCWD/Youth, created in late 2001, is composed of partners with expertise in disability, education, employment, and workforce development issues. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), NCWD/Youth is housed at the Institute for Educational Leadership.
NCWD/Youth.http://www.ncwd-youth.info/resources_&_Publications/quick_Reference_Guides/index.html
Transition From Foster Care to Adulthood Wiki
This Wiki has been set up as a space for sharing information about state law and practice regarding foster youths' transition from foster care to adulthood. It allows those with access to information on a specific jurisdiction to make that information easily available to others. This collaborative effort will result in the creation of a convenient, comprehensive, and continually updated resource for finding information on the various legal and practical approaches states have taken regarding the transition from foster care to adulthood.
It's My Life: Employment
This handbook from Casey Family Programs is intended for child welfare professionals and others responsible for helping young people prepare for transition to adulthood and the workplace. It provides benchmarks for career exploration and techniques for job seeking. It breaks out the benchmarks by age group and lets young people describe their successes in their own words. It also provides a wealth of links to online tools and assessments and many suggestions for taking advantage of community resources.
It's My Life: Housing
This book provides useful information for child welfare professionals and others who work with youth transitioning to adulthood and independent living. It provides an abundance of Web links to online resources, practical strategies to help young people find, get, and keep housing, and developmentally appropriate strategies for adolescents to young adults. The book provides several recommendations and corresponding strategies to help young people get and keep safe, affordable housing: Start early to build a strong foundation of life skills education and practice; Explore housing options and finances with young people; Make and implement a housing plan that includes contingencies, and follow up; and Develop housing connections in your community to benefit young people transitioning from care.
It's My Life: Postsecondary Education and Training
A resource guide for child welfare professionals to help young people from foster care prepare academically, financially, and emotionally for postsecondary education and training success.
Ensuring Safe, Stable and Affordable Housing for Young People Aging Out of Foster Care
This statement of the National Foster Youth Advisory Council gives ten recommendations for ensuring every youth aging out of foster care has a place to call home, and can serve as a framework for action for agencies seeking to improve outcomes for these young people.
Audio: Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood
Listen to this "Thursday's Child" meeting from the Urban Institute and the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall Center for Children. Panelists addressed an array of key questions about the policy and program options for vulnerable teens nearing adulthood, including young people in foster care with no direct family support, those with physical or mental health problems, and youth disconnected from employment and educational opportunities.
Audio: Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood: Rethinking the Safety Net for Vulnerable Young Adults
Listen to audio recordings from the panel discussions at Chapin Hall's October 18-19, 2006 conference. The conference explored what can be done to strengthen the safety net for vulnerable youth during the transition to adulthood. Youth policy advocates, Congressional staff members, state legislators, reporters and researchers discussed the challenges faced by young people who don't have the financial or emotional support to successfully navigate adult life.
The Forum for Youth Investment
The Forum is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities and the nation make sure all young people are Ready by 21™ — ready for college, work and life. This goal requires that young people have the supports, opportunities and services needed to prosper and contribute where they live, learn, work, play and make a difference. The Forum provides youth and adult leaders with the information, technical assistance, training, network support and partnership opportunities needed to increase the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement.
Afterschool.gov
This Web site offers one-stop access to government resources that support after school programs. The site is designed for anyone who cares about kids 6-18-providers, parents, and kids and teens. You can find information to help you understand the issues that face kids and teens or fund, start and operate an after school program.
www.Afterschool.gov
American Youth Policy Forum
The American Youth Policy Forum provides full text reports on community and youth development policy.
American Youth Policy Forum
The Building Partnerships for Youth
The Building Partnerships for Youth Web site includes a database of youth development programs.
Building Partnerships for Youth
Centers for Disease Control Healthy Schools, Healthy Youth Program
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) promotes a Healthy Schools, Health Youth! Program that provides resources to enhance healthy behaviors among adolescents.
Healthy Youth Program
Choose Respect
Choose Respect is an initiative sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control to help adolescents form healthy relationships to prevent dating abuse before it starts. This national effort is designed to motivate adolescents to challenge harmful beliefs about dating abuse and take steps to form respectful relationships.
www.chooserespect.org
Gay, Lesbian and Straight, Education Network (GLSEN)
GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for ALL students. GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
www.glsen.org
Kids Count
Kids Count, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, Kids Count seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.
www.aecf.org/kidscount/
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) provides information on health services for children and adolescents. This federal agency also posts national statistics on its Web site.
Maternal and Child Bureau Program
National Association of Social Workers' One Teen at a Time Campaign
NASW's One Teen at a Time Campaign provides downloadable fact sheets for parents, teachers and school social workers on bullying, self-esteem, diversity and more. The campaign is part of the national Partnership in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH) Program.
Search Institute
The Search Institute promotes "40 developmental assets" which are positive experiences and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
Search Institute
Family Resources
Parents Anonymous
Parents Anonymous Inc. is the the nation's oldest child abuse prevention organization, dedicated to strengthening families and building caring communities that support safe and nurturing homes for all children. Parents Anonymous leads a dynamic international network of 267 accredited organizations and local affiliates that implement quality Parents Anonymous Programs for adults and children. Parents Anonymous provides training and technical assistance, develops publications and conducts research on meaningful Parent and Shared Leadership, systems reform and effective community-based strategies to strengthen families.
http://www.parentsanonymous.org/paIndex1.htm
Finding Funding: Guide to Federal Funding Sources for Youth Programs
This catalog and guide provides an overview of federal funds that may support youth programming. In addition, the guide highlights youth initiatives that used creative financing strategies to support their programming and offers tips for accessing funds and implementing financing strategies.
http://www.financeproject.org/publications/findingfunding_PM.pdf