This project assesses a sample of California county programs for preparing foster teenagers to live independently. Counties were selected to represent statewide variability and represent northern and southern regions as well as urban and rural areas. Chapters address: the organizational structure of each program including the agencies providing ILP services, agency staffing, coordination mechanisms, foster care supervision, and community involvement; a description of program participants including characteristics of the youth, diversity, readiness for the program, barriers to participation, foster care provider issues, foster parent training, and the relationship of birth parents to the county agency and the youth; a description of program processes including identification of eligible youth, referral, outreach, assessment, out-of-county placement, monitoring and follow-up; and an overview of program content and services including classes, activities, individual services, housing issues, and aftercare support. (186 pages)Giovannoni, J., Chaneske, E., & Furman, W. (1996).

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This curriculum explores the experiences and challenges of transracial adoptive families with the goal of improving the quality of services and supports provided to them. In addition, there is a growing subset of transracial adoptive families who choose to maintain contact with their child's birth family. Very little information exists to help these families or their child welfare workers understand the bumpy terrain of openness. This curriculum fills some of the many gaps in knowledge and practice. It includes summaries of transracial adoption literature, a theoretical discussion on normative development in transracial adoptive families, practice-oriented information including discussion questions and exercises, case vignettes, worker guidance, a self-assessment tool, and findings from the in-depth qualitative study of 12 transracial adoptive families in California conducted as part of this project. Findings themes include: the complicated factors involved in choosing transracial adoption; how the children and youth understand the meaning of their adoption; issues around the choice to maintain contact with the adopted child's birth family, the role of the contact, and the vulnerability of contact arrangements; the role of race in family life and development, negotiating different cultural worlds, and developmental changes; and the role of services and supports prior to and following adoption. (216 pages)Frasch, K., Brooks, D., Reich, J., & Wind, L. (2004).

Are you ready to BUILD? Get ready to launch an engaging community-building Challenge."More than 90% of the students and teachers who have completed our challenge said they would recommend it to others."Watch your students embrace entrepreneurial thinking as they create real-world solutions to today’s challenges. BUILD's Thriving Communities Design Challenge invites youth to use Design Thinking to answer: How might we build powerful, thriving communities where everyone enjoys safety, wellness, and economic freedom.

A Shared Lexicon of Equity Terms, Research, Experiences, and Resources

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This is for videotape owners who have lost their user's guide. It suggests ways to use the videotapes and includes information on focusing discussions, leading exercises, providing handouts, and preparing exam questions. (35 pages)Orozco, E., & Clark, S. J. (1997).

Imposed by UK Judges - against Parents' Wills - in Secret Family Courts

Short Description:
After having tried all possible legal and political avenues within the UK, our petition to 'Abolish Adoptions without Parental Consent' was the trigger to take me to Brussels. Eight months later, the case of the 'whistleblower kids' topped all others and made me submit an 'exceptional emergency petition'. The follow-up continues in the 'rolling now', from exile in Berlin, opening up deep philosophical and political questions about governance: nation states and national institutions vs control and rights of EU citizens and their children and grandchildren.

Long Description:
The Secrecy of UK Family Courts has been the subject of our activities and online campaigns for many years. Taking the issue to the EU Parliament was a kind of ‘last resort’. However, it caused problems for parents who had come as supporters with hope, after their children had been wrongfully taken by UK Social Services and Police, ‘legitimised’ by secret Family Courts and some forcibly adopted, i.e. without their consent.

This experience was already ‘too much’ in March 2014, but certainly got aggravated, when we watched the cover-ups of the crimes that the ‘whistleblower kids’ had witnessed. The former UK Secretary of the Petitions Committee had said: “The UK can’t have it both ways: be part of a club, and not play by its members’ rules.”

In a BBC film, the current Chair of the Petitions Committee said: “This is against the Charter of Fundamental Rights, i.e. against European principles.”

This book is meant to help spread awareness and share disillusionment in a system of institutions that, so far, has failed far too many of us bitterly and cruelly.

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This curriculum, which can be used in whole or in part, provides background legislative initiatives, evaluations of Family Preservation/Support Programs in different areas of the country, and techniques in evaluating community-based programs. Chapters include: a description of the development of Family Preservation/Family Support programs including key federal legislation and California's implementation process; a review of current literature on both family support and family preservation evaluations; a state-wide matrix of County Five-Year Plans for the Family Preservation/Support Program Initiative, summaries of 10 county Five-Year Plans, and case studies of three counties; information on single-subject designs including the nature and scope of single-subject research and its relationship to time-series design; information on collecting and analyzing administrative level data to determine whether change has occurred in a target community; and analysis of administrative level data within a single-system design framework. This module addresses Child Welfare Policy, Planning and Administration competencies. (343 pages)Rogers, K., Ferguson, C., Barth, R. P., & Embry, R. (1998).

A Toolkit for B.C. Post-Secondary Institutions

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The purpose of this toolkit is to assist B.C. post-secondary institutions with evaluating and selecting resources to support their ongoing planning and delivery of training on sexualized violence.

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The purpose of this toolkit is to assist B.C. post-secondary institutions with evaluating and selecting resources to support their ongoing planning and delivery of training on sexualized violence.

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ISBN: 978-1-77420-071-1

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There are materials that we are asking the participants to copy and bring with them to the class. There are materials that the Resource Center will provide for participants and there are materials that we are providing to participants that we ask for them to review prior to the class that do not need to be printed.

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Evidence Based Practice outlines the how and why of proving what works in healthcare through explaining the origins and mechanics of Evidence Based Medicine and Practice. From the early development of the Randomized Controlled Trial through the evolution of the Meta-Analysis, this booklet will provide students in clinical healthcare fields with a foundational text for interpreting evidence and proving outcomes.

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Evidence Based Practice outlines the how and why of proving what works in healthcare through explaining the origins and mechanics of Evidence Based Medicine and Practice. From the early development of the Randomized Controlled Trial through the evolution of the Meta-Analysis, this booklet will provide students in clinical healthcare fields with a foundational text for interpreting evidence and proving outcomes. Information from this booklet can be applied to clinical environments with practical suggestions and solutions for developing research questions, locating literature, and assessing evidence through five steps: Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply, and Audit.

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National findings on formal training and education of migrants with focus on empowering their transversal skills that partners identified in IO2 as instrumental to favour their integration in the tourism sector, and more in general, in the overall labour market. The videos of the experiments are available on our project website : https://citiesbyheart.aeva.eu/index.php/portfolios/io5/

This exercise guides students through reading and outlining an empirical journal article. It reviews the basic structure of empirical journal articles and prompts students to take detailed notes of each article as they read.

This exercise guides students through how to outline a non-empirical (theoretical, philosophical, practical) journal article. Students are prompted to take detailed notes as they read within a structured format.

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We will explore the many components of system navigation and select populations. We will define some important concepts, including system navigation, system navigator, select populations, the language of addiction, case management, Theories, Approaches, UDL, DEI/EDI - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, IDEA & IDEALSS, cultural safety, cultural competence, cultural safe communications,. We will discuss the importance of effective communications, respectful interactions, and remaining teachable when working with different cultures.

This curriculum focuses on factors that may lead to differential placement outcomes for children who have become dependents of the court, as the result of abuse and neglect, and have been placed with kin rather than in traditional foster homes. It is intended for use by child welfare faculty in California’s schools of social work or social welfare in both BSW and MSW programs and may be used in direct practice or Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) classes. In addition, the curriculum, or parts from it, may be used in workshops provided to line workers, supervisors, and/or managers by any of the public child welfare training academies in California or public child welfare agencies. The intent of this curriculum is to provide students and child welfare professionals with (a) background information on kinship care as an alternative to traditional foster care, (b) a brief review of the literature pertaining to the characteristics of dependent children in kinship care and their care providers, (c) opportunities to discuss beliefs about why kinship care is valuable (or not) and why it may or may not be successful, (d) demographic data pertaining to selected characteristics of children in kinship care and their care providers derived from a sample of California child welfare cases, (e) factors which may or may not be related to premature termination of kinship care placements, (f) caregiver perceptions of differential placement outcomes, (g) social worker perceptions of differential placement outcomes, and (h) opportunities to discuss how students and/or child welfare workers can decrease premature termination of kinship care placements. The curriculum is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation containing key points from each module followed by one or more slides presenting an “active learning experience.” (78 pages) Chang, J., Liles, R., & Hoang, T. (2006).

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Continued outcome disparities for historically underserved student populations point to the urgent need for educators to critically examine structural inequities in higher education and shift current practices for greater equity in learning environments. This resource provides a structure for faculty to self-evaluate their teaching, identify evidence-based practices that can bring greater equity to their classrooms, and develop an Action Plan for implementing and evaluating those practices. By focusing on "just one thing," educators can develop a personalized, discipline-specific approach to continual improvement in enhancing equity for students.

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The need for greater equity in higher education learning environments is abundantly clear, both nationally and in the state of Minnesota.[1] Yet many educators find themselves daunted by the enormity of the challenge. How exactly do we “do equity” in our classrooms, whether in person or online? While Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainings abound, it can be difficult to translate broad concepts into concrete applications and practices within our respective disciplines.

In this Faculty Learning Community, we bring together a community of peers within your discipline to help you develop “just one thing” you can bring into your teaching practices to enhance equity for your students. Research around culturally responsive teaching—one of many terms used to indicate equitable teaching practices—boils down to three key areas. There are many different frameworks that have been used to describe those areas (see Transactional Distance Theory,[2] Community of Inquiry,[3] and the Rigor/Relevance Framework,[4] among others), but for our community, we will use these terms: Relationships: creating trust and community, in a manner that ensures all students know they and their cultures are valued assets to a collaborative and safe learning environment Relevance: establishing the connection between the learning content and students’ daily lives, cultural practices, and aspirations Rigor: well-designed, disciplinarily-current, and learning-science-informed courses, instruction, and assessment

Starting from this framework, you will develop an Action Plan. Progressing alongside your colleagues and benefitting from their insights, you will move from identifying a goal, to choosing “just one thing” that you can do toward achieving that goal, to planning incremental and time-bound steps for implementation, to determining how you’ll evaluate the plan’s effectiveness. While achieving “just one thing” can make a significant difference for students, our hope is that this initial practice will also offer you insights into what works best—not just for your students, but also for you as you continue to bring future equitable teaching practices into your learning environments.

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Outlines course objectives and week-by-week lesson plans including links to syllabus and other OER materials for class use.

Required Course Objectives
1. Discuss theories and research supporting a family-centered approach to early childhood education.
2. Articulate the role of cultural context in attitudes, beliefs, values, and child-rearing practices.
3. Analyze personal values, beliefs, and cultural biases that influence their work with families.
4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the IFSP/IEP process and the impact this process has on families.
5. Identify strategies that support and assist families to identify their priorities, resources, and concerns for their children.
6. Identify specific components of IDEA that support families in the special education process.
7. Continue to identify themselves with the early childhood profession and will exhibit the attributes of a collaborative educational leader including the acquisition of appropriate knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

This curriculum introduces the Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) model of working with families in child welfare and is based on a core belief that within families lies the wisdom to find solutions to protect their own children and resolve other issues of concern. The six modules cover the historical perspective of FGDM; models of FGDM; cultural competency; micro, mezzo, and macro level skills utilized in FGDM; practice; and outcome measures. In addition to lecture content, modules include instructional guides and suggestions, interactive exercises, topics for discussion, video and other resource suggestions, and a pre- and posttest instrument with answer sheet. An appendix of handouts, workshop evaluation form, references, and list of information sources and resources is included. (128 pages)Okamura, A., Quinnett, E. (2000).