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Parents’ Handbook

September 23, 2024 by Greg Cywnar

Parenting is rewarding, but it is not always easy. When problems arise in a family, it is often the children who are emotionally or physically affected. Unfortunately, some parents do not know where to turn to get help for their children or themselves. This handbook was written to explain the role of CP&P workers and other staff who work together to serve you and your family. CP&P recognizes this can be a very difficult time for you and your family. You may have many questions along the way, so feel free to speak to your worker about your concerns at anytime.

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An-Enhanced-Family-Crisis-Handbook-A-Behavioral-Health-and-Wellness-Toolkit-2024

April 13, 2024 by Greg Cywnar

The purpose of this expanded version of the Toolkit is to empower individuals with disabilities and their family
and professional caregivers by providing information to more effectively advocate for persons with complex
severe behavioral health conditions (which we formerly referred to as “dual diagnosis”) for treatments, supports,
services and the conditions that promote mental wellness. Individuals with diagnoses of developmental
disabilities and behavioral health disorders face multiple challenges in their daily lives. Some of these
challenges relate to the behavioral health conditions themselves. Other barriers include the shortage of qualified
medical and non-medical behavioral health providers and the failure to give mental health and behavioral
disorders the same attention as with medical disorders. Individuals of all ages with intellectual and
developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges, therefore, face the barriers of limited access to
needed services, lack of equality and problems with obtaining and affording care.

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Building Resilience: Supporting Grandfamilies’ Mental Health & Wellness, 2023

December 13, 2023 by Greg Cywnar

Building Resilience: Supporting Grandfamilies’ Mental Health & Wellness, 2023

The latest report from Generations United on grandparents raising grandchildren and relatives. Information includes how grandparents’ challenges effect mental health, various findings, services, supports and more.

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Legal and Custody Help for Grandparents Raising Grandkids

August 23, 2023 by Greg Cywnar

If you’re a grandparent raising grandchildren, there are many practical issues to consider—including legal, financial, and caregiving support. Learn what help is available for parenting the second time around.

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Exploring Medication for Adopted Children: Mental Health and Behavioral Treatment Options

July 27, 2023 by Greg Cywnar

Exploring Medication for Adopted Children: Mental Health and Behavioral Treatment Options

Published by the Adoption Advocate, July 2023, Issue Number 173

The adoption community has made great progress in understanding the impact of trauma on children’s mental health and emotional well-being. As more adoptive parents seek healing for their children through mental health services, they are part of an overall rise in the general population of children and adolescents whose mental health and behavioral treatment plans involve medication. In this issue of the Adoption Advocate, child psychiatrist Joshua Sparrow outlines common concerns and considerations for psychotropic medications, when to worry, tips for observing, describing, and understanding your child’s behavior, and how to develop a team approach for parents, children, doctors, and teachers.

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Birth and Foster Parent Partnership: A Relationship Building Guide

May 10, 2023 by Greg Cywnar

It is always better for children and youth to remain with their birth families if it is safe to do so. When foster care is necessary, the goal is to provide a temporary safe, stable and nurturing environment for children and adolescents while actively seeking and supporting reunification with their families. A robust relationship between a child or youth’s birth parents and foster parents or kinship caregivers can help achieve this outcome and reduce trauma for everyone. These relationships are best nurtured when child welfare staff, parent partners, court and legal personnel, court advocates, foster parent organizations and other service providers are supportive and help facilitate early and ongoing communication.

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New Jersey DDS Resource Directory

November 20, 2022 by Greg Cywnar

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2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers

October 9, 2022 by Greg Cywnar

The National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers (Strategy) is the result of three
years of focused effort by two Congressionally mandated advisory councils: The
Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage (RAISE) Act Family Caregiving
Advisory Council and The Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising
Grandchildren (SGRG) (collectively referred to herein as the Advisory Councils).
The two Advisory Councils were formed in 2019 to explore and document the
challenges faced by family caregivers and kin and grandparent caregivers, respectively.
Each was charged with providing actionable recommendations for supporting their
corresponding caregiving populations in a holistic way both now and in the future. In
addition, the RAISE Act directed the development of a family caregiving strategy.

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Affirming and Supporting LGBTQ Children and Youth in Child Welfare

July 21, 2022 by Greg Cywnar

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CHART Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care: National Comparison Chart

June 1, 2022 by Greg Cywnar

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