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The Child Response Protocol Toolkit is designed to equip Ohio’s communities with tools to support a coordinated response to sex and/or labor trafficking of youth. This toolkit provides a series of preferred practices to assist communities in creating collaborative, survivor-centered...
This report describes the pretesting of a Human Trafficking Screening Tool (HTST) for identifying youth with trafficking experiences. The tool was built based on a comprehensive review of current tools, developed with feedback from a youth advisory council, and...
The purpose of this toolkit is to raise awareness and prevent trafficking of Native youth by educating them on what human trafficking is, available resources, safety tips, and ways to get involved in their communities. This resource considers the unique cultural...
This Blueprint tells the story of Nebraska’s recent progress on child welfare reform and outlines key opportunities to continue improving outcomes for the state’s most vulnerable children and families. The information for the report was gathered from a diverse group of...
This brief identifies common features of programs that offer integrated services to support both the economic security of families and the development and wellbeing of children. Focusing on programs operating as of early 2016, the brief discusses programs’ development...
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a system-wide reform effort to implement trauma-informed care (Trauma Systems Therapy [TST]) across a large, private child welfare system. The longitudinal associations among implementation of TST and four measures of children'...
To determine the prevalence of physical and mental/behavioral health conditions among young mothers with...
This paper offers recommendations for child welfare professionals, caregivers, and systems to use research findings on the adolescent brain and the impact of trauma to work effectively with youth in or emerging from foster care in the four focus areas of the Jim Casey Initiative’s work:...
This report shares findings from a study that examined how much States spend on children, including education, health, income security, and social services spending, compared the spending in different States, and considered the implications of these differences. For the study, State spending...
Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are increasingly interested in the role that self-regulation may play in the ability of people to obtain and maintain employment. This interest is motivated by findings from three broad strands of research. First, research suggests self-regulation is...