Posts Tagged ‘ NRCPFC ’

October 03, 2012 - This National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) has released a new toolkit for practitioners/researchers working with LGBTQ runaway and homeless youth.  The toolkit draws findings from first-hand accounts from interviews, literature reviews, and empirical research. It is "infused with cultural considerations, recognizing the diversity of the LGBTQ RHY population, and outlines specific evidence-based and evidence-informed programs, practice models, and assessment/evaluation tools that are currently being used by agency...Read more »

April 04, 2012 - In this free archived webcast from the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (broadcast 3/28/12), Dr. Gerald Mallon, NRCPFC Executive Director, talks with Dr. Christopher Bellonci about psychotropic medication use among children and youth in care. READ MORE.Read more »

October 18, 2011 - In this archived webcast, Parenting Older Adolescents, Dr. Gerald Mallon of the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections, spoke with Mary Keane, a foster and adoptive parent in New York State, as well as Aileen Rosario, one of Mary’s daughters. Mary shared her experiences as a lesbian resource parent, focusing on how she has engaged older adolescents and how she has met the needs of LGBT youth in...Read more »

August 02, 2011 - The new Emancipating and/or Older Youth webpage of the Fostering Connections section of the NRCPFC website provides a variety of resources, including Promising Practices and Policies from States and Tribes; Resources from Collaborating Organizations; and Evidence-Based Practice, Research, and Reports. It also links to the NRCPFC Independent Living/Transition to Adulthood Hot Topic webpage, which offers additional resources.Read more »

June 27, 2011 - The Fostering Connections section of the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) website has a new Kinship/Guardianship webpage READ MORERead more »

May 23, 2011 - This NRCPFC webcast, recorded 5/18/11, focused on working with transgender youth in foster care and runaway and homeless youth programs. READ MORERead more »

March 05, 2010 - NRCPFC Webcast: A Discussion About Permanency for Older Adolescents Wednesday March 24, 2010 Effective models that empower and support youth in achieving permanency must be multidimensional. Such models include recruiting and training appropriate foster and adoptive families, many of whom were previously known by the young person prior to their adoption. Effective strategies also include connecting youth to caring adults; mentoring and building connections with extended family; and strategies to effectively address the emotional/mental health issues...Read more »

February 04, 2010 - The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) offers on site training and technical assistance to States, Territories, Tribes, and other publicly supported child welfare agencies on a wide range of issues which promote sustainable systemic reform in child welfare. This document describes training and technical assistance opportunities pertaining to the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 that are available to States and Tribes through NRCPFC....Read more »

January 07, 2010 - From the NRCPFC Weekly Update 12/30/09 Free Special Issue of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1989-2009 Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, recently announced the publication of a freely available Special Issue of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1989-2009 on the 20th Anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Special Issue aims to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the...Read more »

November 19, 2009 - Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care The fall 2009 issue of The Connection by CASA for Children discusses the importance of addressing the needs of LGBTQ youth in foster care. The challenges and risks faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in care can be summarized in three broad categories: intolerance, lack of safety and barriers to permanency. What are CASA programs and other youth-serving agencies doing...Read more »