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Agencies and Resource Persons AdoptUsKids, a collaboration supported through a cooperative agreement between The Children's Bureau, Administration for Children & Families, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and the Adoption Exchange Association. California Kids Connection, an online, searchable database listing children in California who are available for adoption. California Kids Connection is coordinated by Family Builders by Adoption, Inc., which is under contract to the California Department of Social Services to provide this service. Five Acres, The Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County Cheryl Jacobson, Consultant, California Permanency for Youth Project Web-Based Resources Alameda County A Guide to Permanency Options
for Youth (2005) Group Home StepUp Project: Moving Up and Out of Congregate Care (MS WORD) Placement
Protocol on County Staff Fostering and Adopting Alameda County Dependent
Children Bay Area Academy Bob Lewis and Sue Badeau, adapted by Bay Area Academy, Preparing Youth for
Permanent Family Connections: Preparing Everyone for Permanent Family
Connections California Permanency for Youth Project Agency Self-Assessment Tool on Youth Permanency (MS WORD) Current Relationships/Past Connections of Affection (MS WORD) - tracking form developed by CPYP counties Declaration
of Commitment to Permanent Lifelong Connections for Foster Youth (2006) Intake Form (MS WORD) - CPYP county data collection form Intensive Relative Search Contact Information (MS WORD) - tracking form developed by CPYP counties Cheryl Jacobson, Emancipated Youth Connections Project Final Report/Toolkit List of free and fee-based Internet search engines, available from cpypmail@sbcglobal.net Mardith J. Louisell, Model Programs for Youth
Permanency (2004) Mardith J. Louisell, Six Steps to
Find a Family: A Practice Guide to Family Search and Engagement Mardith J. Louisell, Recommendations for Effective
Partnerships on Youth Permanency between Adoption and Foster Family Agencies
and Child Welfare (2006) Mardith J. Louisell, Recommendations for
Effective Partnerships on Youth Permanency between Group Homes and Child
Welfare (2006) Mardith J. Louisell, Recommendations for Effective
Partnerships on Youth Permanency between the Juvenile Courts and Child Welfare (2006) Progress Report (MS WORD) - CPYP county data collection form Reina Sanchez, Youth Perspectives on
Permanency (2004) Youth Permanency Consult Sheet (MS WORD) Casey Family Programs Madelyn Freundlich and Lois Wright, Post-Permanency Services (2003) Casey Family Services Casey Family Services Center for Effective Child Welfare
Practice, A Call
to Action: an Integrated Approach to Youth Permanence and Preparation for
Adulthood (2005) Fact Sheet Two: Without Family Permanence, Young People Face Difficult Futures Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago Mark E. Courtney, Amy Dworsky, Sherri Terao, Noel Bost, Gretchen Ruth Cusick, Thomas Keller, Judy Havlicek, Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth (2005) Family Builders by Adoption Family Builders by Adoption is working on the Dumisha Project, a five-year federal research project. The agency is tracking demographic data on the youth, as well as service data. View a sample of their Dumisha Project database here. Fresno County Finding
Permanency for Youth Resource Handbook Kern County KeYPOINT Implementation
Schedule (Gantt chart) Los Angeles County County
of Los Angeles Quality and Productivity Commission 21st Annual Productivity and
Quality Awards Program, DCFS Metro North Permanency Unit Metro North
Permanency Project Plan (May 2007) Orange County Héctor R. Bird, Brief Impairment Scale (BIS) (MS WORD) Race Matters Consortium Robert Hill, Disproportionality
of Minorities in Child Welfare: Synthesis of Research Findings (2004) Sacramento County Sacramento
County Family Permanence for Youth Project Plan (February 2006) Sacramento
County Project Plan for Year 2 (May 2007) San Luis Obispo County California
Permanency for Youth Project Plan (April 2007) Stanislaus County Survey on Adolescent Permanency (MS WORD) - this instrument can be used as a pre- and post-permanency training tool Connections database (Microsoft Access required) - used for tracking connections information DVDs California Permanency for Youth Project, Telling It Like It Is: Foster Youth and Their Struggle for Permanency, 2004. Order a copy Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, Finding Forever Families. Order a copy
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