» All teen parents need support in becoming a parent while successfully navigating their own journey into adulthood, but young parents in foster care face a unique set of circumstances. Join us for a discussion with young mamas from National Crittenton's IMPACT (Invincible Mamas Pushing Action & Change Together) network on the needs of young parents in foster care and how we can better support them.

» Family systems theory gives us a framework for understanding, supporting, or engaging in birth parent foster parent partnerships while acknowledging the complexity and the relational work they require.

» New data shows that policies to provide universal concrete and economic supports to families can have a powerful impact on child abuse and neglect prevention and broader family well-being. This Digital Dialogue covered one such strategy—paid family and medical leave. It explored what research tells us about the impacts of these concrete supports and provided information about one state’s journey to a statewide policy.

» Kinship caregivers often prioritize their children’s needs before caring for their own, often delaying their own medical appointments and medication to purchase shoes for children, transportation, and food. Learn more about kinship caregiver health and an approach to working with kinship caregivers that emphasizes self-compassion and self-care. Created by a multi-disciplinary team of doctors and social workers, the Time for Me Toolkit helps peer navigators to support and provide psychoeducation to caregivers around six pillars of health management (Healthy Eating, Being Active, Healthy Sleep, Healthy Coping, Medical Adherence, and Self-Monitoring).

» In 2018, 2.7 million children were being raised in a kinship care family without a parent present – either with grandparents, aunts/uncles, siblings, or close family friends. While kinship caregivers provide essential support to children, many frequently need support to carry out this added responsibility effectively.

» Poverty, race, culture, or zip code should not predetermine a child’s school and life success. This digital dialogue explored the historical roots and current practices and policies that may lead to racial disparities (e.g., conflation of effects of poverty and neglect/abuse) within early childhood and child welfare.

» The Human Rights Campaign is working with hundreds of child welfare systems across the nation to build new and inclusive practices for LGBTQ+ youth and families. Learn more about the effective innovations being put into practice and tools you can use to shift practice in your own program and system.

» In our concern about adversity, are we selling short the capacity of individuals and communities to heal and grow?

» Learn more about the work of the Full Frame Initiative, the five domains of well-being, and how a well-being frame can shift our service approaches.

» Find out how Prevent Child Abuse America chapters and other community organizations across the country have used the film Resilience to engage communities in child abuse and neglect prevention.

» New science is changing how we think about early childhood adversity and resilience – and how early experiences affect lifelong health and development.

» According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 1 in 6 of the children reported missing who had run away were likely child sex trafficking victims. This startling figure demonstrates the safety risks and vulnerability facing children who are leaving home or foster care placements. Learn more about how we can work together to locate missing children, and how a trauma-informed and youth-centered recovery plan has the power to impact running behavior.

» The loss of a parent or caregiver can have cascading impacts on child well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a spotlight on the impact on these losses because of the more than 250,000 children who are estimated to have lost a caregiver due to the pandemic. Dealing with loss and adequately supporting a grieving child are issues that predate the pandemic and include children who have lost caregivers to the termination of parental rights, incarceration, and other issues. Come learn more about how to work with caregivers so they can best support a grieving child.

» Learn about five research-based protective factors that illustrate opportunities for prevention and early intervention with families impacted by co-occurring domestic violence and child maltreatment.

» Learn about ACES Aware, the California partnership between medical and community-based providers and the prevention sector.

» ACEs are not the only important childhood experiences that have lifelong health consequences. This Digital Dialogue introduces the concept of HOPE: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences.

» In our concern about adversity, are we selling short the capacity of individuals and communities to heal and grow?

» In our concern about adversity, are we selling short the capacity of individuals and communities to heal and grow?

» Learn about a family-centered approach to responding to domestic violence that engages and supports survivors, children, and perpetrators.

» Learn about the ways that trauma can affect the youngest children, and how programs and practitioners can support them.

» Learn what new research is telling us about how to intervene effectively in support of depressed parents and their children.

» Learn how new research is helping us to better understand polyvictimization, its impacts, and how to interrupt the patterns and help support healing.

» New science is changing how we think about early childhood adversity and resilience – and how early experiences affect lifelong health and development.