Care and Connections: Bridging Relational Gaps for Foster Youths
Youth aging out of the foster care system face a variety of challenges, but building healthy and supportive relationships can help improve their outcomes. This Brookings Institution report highlights experiences from recent relationship-building programs targeted toward foster youth. The authors found four important lessons that researchers and policymakers can use when designing relationship-building programs for foster youth. Those lessons include the need for child welfare agencies to measure a youth’s relational capacities, designing relationship-based interventions for foster youth, tailoring services to the needs of each youth, and obtaining support from all partners involved in a foster youth’s case to reinforce relationships.
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Record Type:
Report
Publication Date:
September, 2017
Date:
September 2017
Source:
Partner Resources
OFA Initiatives:
TANF/WIOA Resource Hub
TANF/WIOA Category:
Target Populations
Topics/Subtopics:
- Supportive Services
- Child Welfare
- Special Populations
- Youth in Transition
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