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Practice Notes, Research, Articles

Guides

• Your Rights, Your Life - A resource for youth in foster care (PDF, 8.5 MB)
• Make a Difference in a Child's Life, A manual for helping children and youth get what they need in school (PDF, 1 Mb)
• Parenting Physically Aggressive Children and Youth (PDF, 843 Kb)
• Working with Children Exhibiting Sexual Behavior Problems (PDF, 568 Kb)

Practice Notes

Practice Notes is a publication of the University of North Carolina School of Social Work and the Jordan Institute for Families. These are a few of the publications listed on the site:

• Promoting School Success for children involved in the child welfare system
• Dealing with Sexual Abuse
• Cultural Competency in Child Welfare
• Separation and Attachment
• Helping Special Needs Children
• Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome in Children
• Promoting Resiliency in Children
• Successful Foster Parenting

Research & Articles

• Children with Sexual Behavior Problems: Assessment and Treatment, (PDF, 183 Kb)
• Enuresis FAQs, F. Chalmers MD (PDF, 22 Kb)
• Implementing Evidence-based Practice in Treatment Foster Care, by Foster Family-based Treatment Association (PDF, 387 Kb)
• Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, (PDF, 837 Kb)
• National Child Welfare Resource Center/ Muskie School of Public Service
• Randomized Trial of Treatment for Children With Sexual Behavior Problems: Ten-Year Follow-Up, (PDF, 123 Kb)
• Review of Performance Based Contracting Models in Child Welfare, by Casey Family Program (PDF, 53 Kb)
• A Road Map for Learning, Improving Educational Outcomes in Foster Care by Casey Family Programs (PDF, 2 Mb)
• Treatment Manual for Cognitive-Behavioral Group Treatment for Parents/Caregivers of Children with Sexual Behavior Problems, (PDF, 173 Kb)
• Childwelfare.com - provides a broad array of articles regarding child welfare.
• Zero to Three - provides information to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers.
• What Research Shows About Adolescent Sex Offenders, National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth, (PDF, 244 Kb)
• Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, Identifying Strategies and Best Practices by the National Association of Counties (PDF, 414 Kb)

Online Courses

• Children's Functional Assessment Rating Scale (CFARS) Certification, (PDF, 15 Kb)
• Child Trauma Academy Online Courses

Assessments

• Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II (J-SOAP-II), (PDF, 99 Kb)