Youth in Out-of-Home Care Publications

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Youth in Out-of-Home Care
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Getting Down to Basics
Out of the Margins
Youth in the Margins
Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Poster - English
Poster - Spanish
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Getting Down to Basics:
Tools to Support LGBTQ Youth in Care (2006)
Developed in partnership with the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), this tool kit offers practical information on helping ensure that LGBTQ youth in care receive the support and services they deserve. It is concise and accessible and serves as an ideal starting point for administrators and practitioners unfamiliar with LGBTQ youth in out-of-home care issues.

Specific target audiences include: caseworkers; attorneys, guardians ad litem, and advocates; congregate care providers; juvenile justice professionals; faith-based providers; LGBTQ youth; and families supporting an LGBTQ youth. Sub-topics include (but are not limited to): working with transgender youth; working with homeless LGBTQ youth; LGBTQ youth risk data; recommendations for training and education; combating misguided efforts to ban lesbian and gay adults as foster and adoptive parents; and basic facts about being LGBTQ. Select information sheets are available in Spanish.

Out of the Margins:
A Report on Regional Listening Forums Highlighting the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth in Care (2006)
The CWLA/Lambda Regional Listening Forums provided an opportunity for LGBTQ youth in care, and the adults who work with and care for them, to share their experiences and work together to identify strategies for bringing about lasting change in the child welfare system and other out-of-home care systems.

Out of the Margins consolidates the responses of the more than 500 youth and adults who participated. It highlights their personal stories and includes their suggestions for building the capacity of the child welfare system to better meet the needs of LGBTQ young people in care.

Youth in the Margins:
A Report on the Unmet Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adolescents in Foster Care (2001)
This report urges foster care systems and agencies to take crucial remedial steps to serve their LGBTQ clients. It includes background on the unaddressed needs of LGBTQ youth in foster care and basic measures for reform. It also includes state-by-state findings and recommendations based on a survey of LGBT-related foster care policies and services in fourteen states

Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project:
Poster (2007)
Youth-serving organizations display these colorful posters (8.5 x 11) to convey that they provide safe spaces for LGBTQ youth.
(Available in English and Spanish)