Psychotherapy for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children: A Guide for Community-Based Behavioral Health Practitioners and Agencies
The guide describes the core components of treatment, the impact of ongoing trauma, and the importance of understanding exploitation in the context of social injustice and systemic oppression.
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Promoting Permanency for Teens: A 50 State Review of Law and Policy
Over the last 20 years the number of children in foster care has decreased significantly. Yet during this same period, the number of teenagers aging out of foster care without finding a permanent family has increased from 19,000 to more than 23,000 annually.
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Youth Prosecuted As Adults In California: Addressing Racial, Ethnic, And Geographic Disparities After the Repeal of Direct File
In 2016, Californians voted overwhelmingly in support of Proposition 57, a ballot initiative that abolished the practice of “direct file,” wherein prosecutors could file charges against youth as young as 14 years old directly in adult criminal court.
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Championing the Potential of Youth on Probation: Critical Education Advocacy for Justice-Involved Youth
This issue brief explores how NCYL’s FosterEd initiative has worked with partners to advocate for policy change and direct services for probation-supervised youth, and what steps other organizations can take to join the movement to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for these youth.
Click to read Drug Company Payments to Physicians Tied to Harmful Prescriptions for Foster Youth
This policy brief examines the connections between pharmaceutical company payments to physicians and harmful prescribing practices for children and youth in foster care.
Click to read Juvenile InJustice: Charging Youth as Adults is Ineffective, Biased, and Harmful
“Juvenile InJustice: Charging Youth as Adults is Ineffective, Biased, and Harmful” is a collaboration with the California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice.
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Report on the Actions of U.S. States Regarding Education for Students in Foster Care and the Every Student Succeeds Act
This report contains information on the ongoing work of several states who have taken purposeful and progressive steps towards helping students in foster care succeed academically.
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