Engaging youth and caregivers in developing support services
Key considerations and tips for how to improve your services and strengthen families’ sense of engagement.
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Engaging youth in writing photolisting narratives
This article discusses youth engagement principles and offers strategies and practical suggestions for involving youth in narrative writing.
Engaging youth isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s a path to permanency
The director of the Northwest Adoption Exchange writes about empowering youth to tell their own stories to potential families.
Getting in the right mindset to successfully engage youth in finding permanency
Young people have a right to a say about their future, including their permanency plans. We all share that point of view. But it sometimes takes a reminder or a mental reset to embrace authentic youth engagement. This article provides tips and resources to help us get in the right mindset.
“All’s well that begins well”
“As a child welfare professional, I believe that it is my role and responsibility to lift youth’s voices in their permanency planning so that other children do not silently move through life the way that I did as a teenager.”
National Adoption Month places emphasis on engaging youth
The theme focuses on engaging older youth in their permanency planning. After all, youth are the experts of their own lives.