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| 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 (2009)
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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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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A Crucial Connection: Working Together to Address Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care (2010)
This 8 minute and 45 second long 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.
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Foster Care Webpage
With more than a half million children in foster care, these youth are a group at significant risk for pregnancy. This has serious human and financial consequences for teens, their families, and the child welfare system. However, teens in foster care have been largely overlooked in terms of teen pregnancy prevention and little is known about their needs.
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Fostering Hope: Preventing Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care (2005)
This 28-page report developed with UCAN provides (1) quantitative research on the high rates of teen pregnancy among foster care youth, (2) important new qualitative research presenting findings from Chicago-area focus groups in which foster care youth (some who are already teen parents) and foster parents were asked about their perspective on teen pregnancy, and (3) results of an online survey of Chicago-area child welfare service providers.
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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 (2007)
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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Public Policy Resources
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Promoting Healthier Youth in Foster Care - A Webinar
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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Science Says #27 Issue Brief: Foster Care Youth (2006)
This Science Says research brief presents data on pregnancy and birth rates, sexual behavior, and the use of reproductive health services among youth in foster care. In particular, two issues are addressed: (1) how foster care youth compare to youth more generally on these measures, and (2) how older adolescents who remain in foster care fare compared with those who “age out” of the foster care system. (State policies determine whether or not youth remain in foster care beyond age 18. Each year approximately 20,000 adolescents in the foster care system begin living independently.)
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State and Community Efforts to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Among Foster Care Youth
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Ten Tips for Foster Parents (2006)
Youth in foster care are at significant risk for teen pregnancy. 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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Why It Matters: Teen Pregnancy and Child Welfare (2007)
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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