10 Tips For Foster Parents To Help Their Foster Youth Avoid Teen Pregnancy
The good news for parents and other caring adults, including foster parents, is that there is much they can do to help influence their children’s decisions about sex. Foster youth say they want to discuss sex, love, and relationships with their foster parents, but some are embarrassed or feel uncomfortable starting the conversation. The same… [read more]
2020 KIDS COUNT Data Book
2020 KIDS COUNT Data Book 2020 State Trends in Child Well-Being By the Annie E. Casey Foundation, June 22, 2020 The 31st edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before the coronavirus pandemic began. This year’s publication continues to deliver the Foundation’s… [read more]
A Basic Guide to Special Education
A Basic Guide to Special Education This guide is intended as a reference for people who have questions about special education for a child. It summarizes the basic procedures, services and rights of children to an education and represents current federal and state laws and regulations. It is not intended to offer advice or legal… [read more]
A Basic Guide to the New Jersey Court Process for Resource Families
Please Note: This guide is intended as a reference guide for foster parents (resource parents) providing foster care for children placed in their home by the New Jersey Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P). It is not intended to offer legal advice or legal guidance. For more information or if you have questions not answered in… [read more]
A Changing World – Shaping Best Practices through Understanding of The New Realities of Intercountry Adoption
“A Changing World” represents the most extensive independent research into intercountry adoption to date, including into the regulatory framework/treaty called the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption (HCIA). The research – funded by the American Ireland Fund and the Adoption Institute – was conducted over the past two years by scholars at Tufts University and the… [read more]
A Guide for Father Involvement in System of Care
This guide shares information about the importance of fathers in the lives of their children, and it identifies potential consequences if they are not involved. It also offers strategies for systems and families, especially those who are involved in systems of care, to help fathers become more involved. Section I discusses statistics about the presence… [read more]
A Guide for Parents – When Your Child Is in Foster Care
This handbook was created by The Department of Children and Families (DCF) / The Division of Child Protection & Permanency (DCP&P) formerly known as DYFS to help families involved with the DCP&P whose children have been placed in foster care. Families need to know why children have been removed from their parents’ care, what to… [read more]
A Guide to Developing an Adoption Certificate Program for Mental Health Practitioners
Adoption in and of itself warrants special knowledge on the part of professionals who assist adoptive families. But as more and more children are past infancy when placed into adoption, the family tasks and challenges become more complex, warranting a highly specialized set of insights and skills for professional success in assisting and treating these… [read more]
A Guide To Post Adoption Resources
The New Jersey Adoption Subsidy Program provides support and assistance to families after their adoption is finalized. Although a caseworker is no longer assigned to your child, your family now has an assigned Subsidy Specialist to assist you with concerns or questions, and obtaining community resources. Your Subsidy Specialist can help with Medicaid, subsidy payments,… [read more]
A Guide to Search and Reunion in Adoption
NJ ARCH has created a useful handbook to help you with your adoption needs. This handbook covers a very important issue in adoption – search and reunion. To view and print an electronic, PDF version of this handbook, please click on the handbook cover to the left. If you would like to request a hard-copy… [read more]