Youth Care Professionals

This 7-page booklet outlines a method of assessing youth safety through four basic concepts: Child Affect Relationships Environment This guide is one of four booklets that comprise our Foster Care...

This manual describes a rigorous preservice training program for child-care workers, one that helps them develop authority, autonomy, and accountability. Topics include professionalism issues,...

Booklets 1, 2 and 3 are addressed to foster parents and discuss these issues: How to assure the safety of foster children taking prescription, psychotropic, or over-the-counter medications. How to...

This handy guide provides tips on how to prepare for the placement of a child in your home. The advice ranges from matching children and foster care families to identifying adequate post placement...

You'll get answers to why you should keep a log of the medications your foster children take, why it's not okay to use medication from another child's bottle, and why you should always keep the...

Based on Boys Town's® Common Sense Parenting®. New or experienced foster parents as well as grandparents and other relatives caring for a child forced from home by a crisis will find help and...

A blueprint for treatment foster parents this book offers an approach to foster parenting that combines compassion with practical, outcome-oriented strategies for teaching children how to change...

This revised and expanded edition of Skills for Families, Skills for Life can help family practitioners and other professionals incorporate the teaching of life skills into the assessment of and...

This DVD shows professionals how to forge partnerships and promote family confidence during home visits. It explores the strategies and specific skills necessary to support parents' learning about...

Even the best families need to pause now and then to see how well they are doing - to check their "vital signs". This brochure highlights six characteristics of a healthy family life. See how well...

This book can help teachers, school counselors, social workers, probation officers, psychologists, foster parents, child care staff, and administrators teach angry youth how to calm down, use...

In these pages, you'll find tips for dealing with other professionals working in the juvenile justice system, court system, child welfare system and mental health system. This booklet is one of four...