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Author : Mimi Laver
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Opening Doors for LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care written by Mimi Laver and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Krishna Desai
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book It's Your Life written by Krishna Desai and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam McCormick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317509137
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care written by Adam McCormick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing an often overlooked population in social work literature, this book explores the experiences of LGBTQ youth as they navigate the child welfare system. Adam McCormick examines the entirety of a youth’s experience, from referral into care and challenges to obtaining permanency to aging out or leaving care. Included throughout the book are stories from LGBTQ youth that address personal issues such as abuse, bullying and harassment, and double standards. Filled with resources to foster resilience and empower youth, this book is ideal for professionals who are hoping to create a more inclusive and affirming system of care for LGBTQ youth.
Author : Helen Cahalane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461486270
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Child Welfare Practice written by Helen Cahalane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child welfare is the oldest specialization within social work practice and the only specialty area in which social work is the host profession. This edited volume provides a unique and comprehensive overview of practice issues relevant to contemporary child welfare professionals entering the field as well as those already working in direct service and management positions. This book’s emphasis on systemic, integrated, and evidence-informed practices at the individual, family, and organizational level is in keeping with child welfare’s core mission of child protection, family support, and permanency for youth. This volume also explores the challenges and opportunities present in a contemporary practice environment, which are driven by the attainment of defined outcomes, fiscal limitations, and the need for an informed professionalized child welfare workforce.
Author : Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351168231
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Foster Youth written by Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, there are over 400,000 youth living in foster care in the United States, with over 20,000 aging out of the child welfare system each year. Foster youth are more prone to experience short- and long-term adverse developmental outcomes including diminished academic achievement and career opportunities, poor mental and overall health, financial struggles, homelessness, early sexual intercourse, and substance abuse, many of these outcomes are risk factors for involvement in the juvenile justice system. Despite their challenges, foster youth have numerous strengths and positive assets that carry them through their journeys, helping them to overcome obstacles and build resilience. The Handbook of Foster Youth brings together a prominent group of multidisciplinary experts to provide nuanced insights on the complex dynamics of the foster care system, its impact on youth’s lives, and the roles of institutions and policies in the foster system. It discusses current gaps and future directions as well as recommendations to advance the field. This book provides an opportunity to reflect on the many challenges and strengths of foster youth and the child welfare system, and the combined efforts of caregivers, community volunteers, policy makers, and the professionals and researchers who work with them.
Author : Michael R. Pergamit
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437987354
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Running Away from Foster Care written by Michael R. Pergamit and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sizable fraction of older youth in foster care run away from their placement at least once; many run multiple times. Estimates vary but indicate a serious problem. Unlike other runaways, youth who run away from foster care are generally not trying to escape from abuse or neglect, although they may experience conflict with caregivers. Having been separated from their families and friends, youth who run away from foster care are sometimes seen as running to something rather than running away. While away from their placement, youth may have need of shelter, medical care, counseling, and other services. This report is based on interviews with a sample of youth who ran away from foster care placements in Chicago and L.A. The information they provide help us to understand better why they run away and what can be done to prevent youth from running away from foster care. We also learn where these youth go when they run away. This is a print on demand report.
Author : Jill Hamilton
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 073772711X
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Foster Care written by Jill Hamilton and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to A.B.C. News, approximately 800,000 children every year come in contact with the foster care system. While the system is set up to take in children whose homelife is awful, in some cases Foster care offers no better conditions. Despite more than a decade of intended reform, the foster care system is overcrowded and rife with issues. This collection of essays teaches readers about the issues surrounding foster care. The essays represent a diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. Readers will learn about the history of foster care, and what it's like to be a child in the system. Essay sources like The Economist tackle issues of foster care funding, stating it needs to be changed. This collection will truly provide your readers with an intelligent, balanced understanding.
Author : Gerald P. Mallon
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lesbian and Gay Youth Issues written by Gerald P. Mallon and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help youth care providers increase their knowledge and skills in working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (GLBTQ) youth and their families in a variety of settings. In an easy-to-read question-and-answer format, the book provides basic information about working with this often invisible population and focuses on important issues surrounding the coming out process; family relations; discrimination and antigay violence; creating healthy social environments for GLBTQ youth; relationships and dating; and an array of specific, unique issues for GLBTQ youth and youth workers who work with them in residential, school, health, and mental health settings. It also contains a resource list of readings, videos, websites, and program services.
Author : Gerald P. Mallon
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
ISBN 13 : 9781587601552
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Foster & Adoptive Parents: Recruiting Assessing, and Supporting Untapped Family Resources for Children and Youth written by Gerald P. Mallon and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David E. Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book LGBT Youth Issues Today written by David E. Newton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing numbers of LGBT teenagers who choose to live their lives as ""out"" youth face unique issues within their schools, families, and communities. This book provides information that will help LGBT youth overcome their challenges and give non-LGBT youth a better understanding of sexual identities different from their own.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Supporting Your LGBTQ Youth: a Guide for Foster Parents written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald P. Mallon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231111379
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Let's Get this Straight written by Gerald P. Mallon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an ecological perspective to highlight five principle areas of child welfare, Mallon discusses each in terms of how they pertain to individuals and families whose lives are effected by issues of sexual orientation. Let's Get This Straight uncovers and challenges the pervasive incidence of "heterocentrism" within the social work profession, drawing upon case studies and in-depth interviews to illustrate the degree to which myths and stereotypes about gay and lesbian youth detrimentally affect those most in need of assistance.
Author : Rickie Solinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520944569
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Interrupted Life written by Rickie Solinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences as they try to sustain relations with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing systems, remake life after prison; and more. Together, these powerful writings are an intense and visceral examination of life behind bars for women, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison system.
Author : Shannan Wilber
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book CWLA Best Practice Guidelines written by Shannan Wilber and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child welfare personnel repeatedly move a lesbian youth from one inappropriate placement to another, subjecting her to constant rejection and discrimination and depriving her of a permanent home or family; Detention facility staff place a gay youth in isolation "for his own protection," depriving him of education, recreation, companionship, or other programming and services; Line staff in a group home fail to intervene when residents harass and abuse a transgender youth because they believe he "asked for it" by being open about his gender identity. These disturbingly common practices illustrate the serious problems in the care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The lack of professional guidance related to youths' sexual identities has left a vacuum that is often filled by harmful, discriminatory practices based on personal biases rather than informed, evidence-based policies. The best practice guidelines in this book will improve outcomes for youth with accurate, up-to-date information about the best practices for providing competent services to youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). The "Best Practices Guidelines" after opening with an acknowledgments and introduction section offers eight chapters as follows: (1) LGBT Youth in Out-of-Home Care; (2) Creating an Inclusive Organizational Culture; (3) A Family-Centered Approach to Serving LGBT Youth; (4) Promoting Positive Adolescent Development; (5) Collecting and Managing Confidential Information; (6) Ensuring Appropriate Homes for LGBT Youth; (7) LGBT Youth in Institutional Settings; and (8) Providing Appropriate Health, Mental Health, and Education Services to LGBT Youth. The "Guidelines" conclude with appendices (1) Model Standards Project Staff; and (2) Model Standards Project Advisory Committee; a glossary; and a list of references.
Author : Edited by Jennifer L. Levi & Elizabeth E. Monnin-Browder
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1468554530
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Transgender Family Law written by Edited by Jennifer L. Levi & Elizabeth E. Monnin-Browder and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgender people have unique needs and vulnerabilities in the family law context. Any family law attorney engaged in representing transgender clients must know the ins and outs of this rapidly developing area of law. Transgender Family Law: A Guide to Effective Advocacy is the first book to comprehensively address legal issues facing transgender people in the family law context and provide practitioners the tools to effectively represent transgender clients. The chapters address a broad range of topics, including: Culturally Competent Representation, Recognition of Name and Sex, Relationship Recognition and Protections, Protecting Parental Rights, Relationship Dissolution, Parental Rights after Relationship Dissolution, Custody Disputes Involving Transgender Children, Protections for Transgender Youth, Intimate Partner Violence, Estate Planning and Elder Law. Written by attorneys with expertise in both family law and advocacy for transgender clients, including: Kylar W. Broadus, Patience Crozier, Benjamin L. Jerner, Michelle B. LaPointe, Jennifer L. Levi, Morgan Lynn, Shannon Price Minter, Elizabeth E. Monnin-Browder, Zack M. Paakkonen, Terra Slavin, Wayne A. Thomas Jr., Deborah H. Wald, and Janson Wu, Transgender Family Law is a must-have, practical guide for attorneys interested in becoming effective advocates for their clients. It is also a valuable resource to consult for any transgender person who is forming, expanding, or dissolving a family relationship.
Author : Anneliese A. Singh
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1626259488
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook written by Anneliese A. Singh and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you build unshakable confidence and resilience in a world still filled with ignorance, inequality, and discrimination? The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook will teach you how to challenge internalized negative messages, handle stress, build a community of support, and embrace your true self. Resilience is a key ingredient for psychological health and wellness. It’s what gives people the psychological strength to cope with everyday stress, as well as major setbacks. For many people, stressful events may include job loss, financial problems, illness, natural disasters, medical emergencies, divorce, or the death of a loved one. But if you are queer or gender non-conforming, life stresses may also include discrimination in housing and health care, employment barriers, homelessness, family rejection, physical attacks or threats, and general unfair treatment and oppression—all of which lead to overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness. So, how can you gain resilience in a society that is so often toxic and unwelcoming? In this important workbook, you’ll discover how to cultivate the key components of resilience: holding a positive view of yourself and your abilities; knowing your worth and cultivating a strong sense of self-esteem; effectively utilizing resources; being assertive and creating a support community; fostering hope and growth within yourself, and finding the strength to help others. Once you know how to tap into your personal resilience, you’ll have an unlimited well you can draw from to navigate everyday challenges. By learning to challenge internalized negative messages and remove obstacles from your life, you can build the resilience you need to embrace your truest self in an imperfect world.
Author : Cornelia H. Butler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Mark Bradford written by Cornelia H. Butler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generously illustrated volume features Mark Bradford's newest work which deals with the body and the performance of identity. Accompanying texts include Bradford's trenchant performance script and a scholarly text by Butler explores Bradford's critique of pervasive cultural racism and homophobia in society as a whole.
