Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families

Child welfare practitioners actively engage and involve children, youth, and families, including resource parents and kinship caregivers, during case planning. Similarly, child welfare systems and agencies intentionally and equitably integrate people with lived expertise at every level of decision-making, design, and delivery.

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  • Pathways to Partnerships with Youth and Families

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    General

    This document offers agencies a structure for examining and expanding the role of youth and families in their organizations on both the clinical and organizational levels. This document contains two self-assessment questionnaires, offers strategies for increasing youth and family involvement in all aspects of service delivery, and includes useful examples provided by one NCTSN site.

  • Pathways to Partnerships with Youth and Families

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    General

    This document offers agencies a structure for examining and expanding the role of youth and families in their organizations on both the clinical and organizational levels. This document contains two self-assessment questionnaires, offers strategies for increasing youth and family involvement in all aspects of service delivery, and includes useful examples provided by one NCTSN site.

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  • Partnering with Youth and Families in Trauma Settings

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    General

    This webinar offers family and professional leadership development ideas addressing the multiple dimensions of partnership with youth and families, including advisory board development, peer-to-peer support programs, and compensation for family members, among other topics.

  • Widening the Lens - Why Include the Family?

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    General

    This webinar offered through the Learning Center of the NCTSN discusses the reasoning and importance of including a family in trauma-informed care. Reviews objectives and core therapeutic strategies that can be used with families to support positive adaptation.

  • Making Child Trauma Services Culturally Relevant Through Partnerships with Youth and Families

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    General

    This webinar offered through the Learning Center of the NCTSN provides a brief history of the NCTSN Partnering with Youth and Families Committee and focuses on building cultural competence in outreach to families. Accessing this resource requires a free registration at https://learn.nctsn.org/. Once you have a registration and are signed on you can either use the link on this page or search the name of the resource on the NCTSN Learning Center website to access this resource.

  • Partnering with Youth and Families

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    Behavioral Health

    This webinar offered through the learning center on the NCTSN’s website suggests practical ways to partner with youth and families within treatment settings based on different resources and organizational structures. This webinar reflects the perspectives of providers, family members, and youth. Accessing this resource requires a free registration at https://learn.nctsn.org/. Once you have a registration and are signed on you can either use the link on this page or search the name of the resource on the NCTSN Learning Center website to access this resource.

  • Partnering with Youth and Families in Trauma Settings

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    General

    This webinar offers family and professional leadership development ideas addressing the multiple dimensions of partnership with youth and families, including advisory board development, peer-to-peer support programs, and compensation for family members, among other topics.

  • Widening the Lens - Why Include the Family?

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    General

    This webinar offered through the Learning Center of the NCTSN discusses the reasoning and importance of including a family in trauma-informed care. Reviews objectives and core therapeutic strategies that can be used with families to support positive adaptation.

  • Making Child Trauma Services Culturally Relevant Through Partnerships with Youth and Families

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    General

    This webinar offered through the Learning Center of the NCTSN provides a brief history of the NCTSN Partnering with Youth and Families Committee and focuses on building cultural competence in outreach to families. Accessing this resource requires a free registration at https://learn.nctsn.org/. Once you have a registration and are signed on you can either use the link on this page or search the name of the resource on the NCTSN Learning Center website to access this resource.

  • Partnering with Youth and Families

    Partnering with Children, Youth, & Families
    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
    Behavioral Health

    This webinar offered through the learning center on the NCTSN’s website suggests practical ways to partner with youth and families within treatment settings based on different resources and organizational structures. This webinar reflects the perspectives of providers, family members, and youth. Accessing this resource requires a free registration at https://learn.nctsn.org/. Once you have a registration and are signed on you can either use the link on this page or search the name of the resource on the NCTSN Learning Center website to access this resource.