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Adverse Childhood Experiences among Children Placed In and Adopted from Foster Care

Children in foster care are significantly more likely to experience ad...

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Supporting Lifelong Families: Ensuring Long-Lasting Permanency and Well-Being

After children exit foster care, the focus should shift from system re...

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Foster Father Identity: A Theoretical Framework

Foster fathers have a unique opportunity to positively impact at-risk children, yet they often struggle to establish a clear ident...

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Emotional Involvement & Child Outcomes

Fathers play a crucial role in children's academic, emotional, and behavioral development — and research shows that emot...

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Health Issues for Judges to Consider for Children in Foster Care

Juvenile court judges play a critical role in ensuring children in fos...

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Using Meaningful Program Data and Participant Information to Support Evaluation & Services

Good data leads to better programs. This National Responsible Fatherho...

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What Young People Need to Thrive: Leveraging the Strengthening Families Act to Promote Normalcy

Every young person deserves normal childhood experiences. Through thi...

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Partnering With Birth Parents To Promote Reunification

Reunification works best when everyone works together. This factsheet explores what foster caregivers can do to work with the bir...

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State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States

Data drives better outcomes for children. This resource compiles crit...

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ACF-OCSS Factsheet for Fathers and Families

Strong fathers build strong families. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is committed to supporting the economi...

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Tips for Young Dads from NRFC Dads

The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) team includes practitioners, trainers, researchers, advocates, and most i...

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Parenting Children and Youth Who Have Experienced Abuse or Neglect

Forming supportive relationships with consistent, caring adults is the...

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Healing Comes First: Building Resilience for Young People in Foster Care

Forming supportive relationships with consistent, caring adults is the...

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Promoting Safe and Stable Housing for Young People

Stable, affordable housing is essential for young people transitioning out of foster care. Child welfare workers, caregivers, and ...

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Marriage and Relationship Education: Tips for Practitioners Working with Adoptive Couples

Adoptive couples navigate unique challenges including trauma-informed ...

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How Relationship Education Leads to Stronger Foster and Adoptive Families

Parenting children with trauma histories can be challenging, and stron...

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Addressing Mental Health Needs to Prevent Tragedy.

In December of 2024, the United States was rocked by two devastating events: the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson a...

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Using Incentives to Support Fathers' Participation in Programming

Incentive-based strategies are increasingly acknowledged as effective ...

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Mark Boorse

How Does Housing Impact Family Wellness?

As a person who has worked for decades in both the mental health field and in housing and homelessness, I have learned that one of...

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Dr. Alon Holliday

Boy's Don't Cry: Understanding the importance of Emotional Regulation

Growing up my parents would say "suck it up" or "girls ...

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Dr. Alon Holliday

Successful Tips for Co-Parenting

Being in the thrawls of a heated seperation and figuring out how to seperate your emotions to do the best for the children can be ...

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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This month is a reminder of the importance of supporting the women we love—mothers, partners, daughters, sisters, and friend...

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Terence Hover

The Importance of Financial Literacy: How Fathers Can Engage Their Children

In today’s complex financial world, teaching children about mone...

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Ensuring Fatherhood Program Sustainability: Seven Tips From the Field

For individuals working with Fathers and Families, this National Res...

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