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Youth Services Insider

9/3/2020

Pilot Programs Aim to Boost Future Parents’ Sense of Responsibility

The Imprint staff reports

Eight states are developing pilot programs to educate young expecting parents about their  responsibilities, including how to manage their finances, emotions and relationships. The grant money for the programs will come from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families.

8/17/2015

Providing Their Own Permanency: Foster Teens Warily Eye Marriage, Parenthood

Dr. Marian L. Swindell

Early in my career as a social worker, I was extremely technically efficient. I had cases. Those cases involved children who had problems. Those problems had solutions. I was pragmatic, action- and task-oriented.

4/23/2014

Calif. Discusses Alternative Placements for Older, Pregnant Foster Youth

Guest Writer

by Jeremy Loudenback Proposed state legislation scheduled for debate in the California Assembly’s Human Services Committee on Tuesday aims to bring pregnant and parenting foster youth a much-needed housing alternative. Assembly Bill 2668, a new bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, would provide transition-age foster youth with a special, modified version of the state’s supervised independent living placement (SILP).

4/5/2013

Uninformed and Under-Supported

Opinion

Waln Brown, Ph.D.

Foster youth are dealt a double blow when it comes to the birds and the bees. First they don’t have adequate sexual and reproductive health education, then they aren’t supported through the challenges of being an adolescent or young adult with a child.

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