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Publications
10 Tips for Foster Parents
This brief, user-friendly guide offers some ideas to help foster parents strengthen their relationships with foster youth and how best to communicate about sex, love, and relationships. It reflects input from foster parents as well as practitioners who work with them.
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Critical Judgment: How Juvenile and Family Court Judges Can Help Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (2009)
The National Campaign and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) have joined forces to help address teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy among single, young adults in Juvenile and Family Courts. This publication provides the results of a survey of NCJFCJ members on teen and unplanned pregnancy and related issues as well as a summary of focus groups held with Juvenile and Family Court judges, a detailed case study of how one Miami judge deals with teen and unplanned pregnancy, and a brief look at efforts from other localities.
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Fostering Hope: Preventing Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care
The 28-page report summarizes research on the high rates of teen pregnancy among foster care youth, qualitative research from the focus groups and service provider survey, discussions from roundtable meetings in Chicago and Washington, DC, and implications for the field.
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It's Your Call: Make the Right Decision for You (2010)
This brochure is for youth in foster care and it is designed to help you think carefully about sex, health, and relationships. It provides resources that will give you support and information that will help you when making important decisions about your life.
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Our Story, Our Words: Youth Speak Out on Sex, Love, and Teen Pregnancy
Teens get lots of advice from adults, but they usually aren't asked to offer their own. That's why The National Campaign asked teens growing up in foster care to tell us what they wanted to know about teen pregnancy prevention and what advice they would give to their peers. This handy, magazine-style brochure tells what teens have to say in their own words.
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Fact Sheets
Briefly: Effective Planning for Child Welfare Leaders to Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2010)
This document has been developed for child welfare professionals. It provides guidance to child welfare agency leaders and their teams about making decisions and developing effective programs for youth most likely to get pregnant and have children. Information and guidance is also provided on the consequences associated with early pregnancy and parenthood.
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Briefly - It’s Your Responsibility to Talk to Youth: Pregnancy Prevention for Youth in Foster Care (2010)
This tool is designed for caregivers and service providers to raise awareness; suggest ways to approach sex, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) with youth; and provide resources.
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Briefly - Opportunities to Help Youth in Foster Care: Addressing Pregnancy Prevention in the
Implementation of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008
The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 was the most comprehensive child welfare reform law in more than a decade. This brief makes recommendations for how federal, state, and local governments can use provisions in this Act to help young people in and transitioning out of foster care to get the education and health services they need to avoid teen pregnancy.
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Briefly - Policy Brief: Preventing Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care
Teens in foster care—
many of whom suff ered abuse and neglect before leaving their
homes—are at increased risk for getting pregnant and becoming
parents than other teens. This suggests a more intensive and coordinated effort is needed by those concerned with child welfare and teen pregnancy. One important place
to start is to help prevent early pregnancy among youth in foster care and those transitioning out of foster care, and to help those who have
already gotten pregnant to avoid subsequent pregnancies.
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Fast Facts: Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Youth Who Ever Lived in Foster Care (2009)
This fact sheet presents
new findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent
Health (Add Health) specifically on the reproductive health outcomes of youth who ever lived in foster care.
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Science Says #27 Issue Brief: Foster Care Youth
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State and Community Efforts to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Among Foster Care Youth: fact sheet
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Why It Matters: Teen Pregnancy and Child Welfare
This fact sheet highlights the consequences of early childbearing for teens and their families, as well as the costs to the child welfare system.
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PowerPoint Presentations
Fostering Hope: Preventing Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care: PowerPoint presentation
This presentation summarizes teen pregnancy data for youth in care, qualitative research findings from Fostering Hope, and examples of what states and communities are doing across the country to help prevent pregnancy among foster teens.
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Multimedia
Promoting Healthier Youth in Foster Care
October 21, 2010
The National Campaign and the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), co-sponsored this webinar focused on promoting healthier youth in the foster care system.
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Two New Funding Announcements: State Personal Responsibility Education Program
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Title V State Abstinence Education Grant Program
August 9, 2010
The National Campaign and the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators (NAPCWA), an affiliate of the American Public Human Services Association, co-sponsored a webinar focused on the opportunities to address the needs of youth in foster care through the recently announced PREP and Abstinence Education funding. NAPCWA members were invited to hear Bryan Samuels, Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, discuss these opportunities.
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More information about PREP funding
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A Crucial Connection
This DVD features teens and young adults speaking candidly about their experiences with the foster care system as well as various professionals discussing why it is important to address teen pregnancy among youth in foster care. An accompanying discussion guide is also available for download and comes free with purchase of every DVD.
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Strategies to Prevent Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care - A National Conference Call
December 14, 2009
This national conference call featured three state team leaders who highlighted their work and answered questions about their successes, the challenges that they have met, and the strategies they pursue to tackle the issue of teen pregnancy among youth in foster care.
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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Among Youth in Foster Care: The Young Adult Perspective - A Roundtable Discussion
April 2009
With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Services and Jim Casey Youth Opportunities, and in collaboration with Healthy Teen Network, The National Campaign hosted an interactive roundtable meeting in April 2009 to increase action by states and other organizations to reduce teen pregnancy among youth in and aging out of foster care. Part of that meeting included a panel discussion with a group of former youth in foster care sharing their perspectives on teen pregnancy. Hear what Jeremy, Jonnie, Lisetta, and Rob had to say (panel moderation by Kristen Tertzakian, Consultant for The National Campaign).
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Capitol Hill Briefings
Preventing Teen Pregnancy and Promoting Healthy Relationships Among Youth in Foster Care - A Capitol Hill Briefing
July 16, 2009
The National Campaign, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), and the National Foster Care Coalition (NFCC) today announced the formation of a new working group on teen pregnancy and foster care. The group will provide recommendations to the Obama Administration and Congress on common sense solutions to help reduce the disproportionately high teen pregnancy rate among youth in and aging out of foster care. The announcement was made at an event on Capitol Hill moderated by Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA). She was joined by Congressmen Michael Castle (R-DE), Jim Cooper (D-TN), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), and Danny Davis (D-IL).
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Fostering Hope: Preventing Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care: Capitol Hill briefing
January 12, 2005
The National Campaign and ucan are working together to help reduce first and subsequent teen pregnancy among youth in foster care, who are at high risk of early pregnancy and parenting.
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Other
Teen Pregnancy Prevention for Youth in Foster Care: transcript
September 2005
A national conference call
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