This brief describes the process of modifying the mindfulness curriculum that is part of each dialectical behavior therapy module within the Youth Transitions Partnership for transition-age youth and young adults who are in foster care in Alameda County, California.
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Modifying the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Mindfulness Curriculum Implemented with Transition-Age Youth and Young Adults in Foster CareFeb 08, 2024
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Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: An Early Picture of Youth and Services – Descriptive ReportSep 29, 2023
This report describes services offered to youth and young adults with foster care histories through Colorado’s Pathways to Success comprehensive service model and comparison programs. It also describes characteristics of service providers and of the youth and young adults enrolled in the services.
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Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: Foundational Analytic Plan for the Summative Evaluation of Pathways to SuccessApr 28, 2023
This analytic plan serves as the foundation for a summative evaluation of the Colorado Pathways to Success comprehensive service model that Mathematica and ACF are conducting as part of YARH-3 in partnership with the Colorado Department of Human Services and the Center for Policy Research.
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Innovation and Support for Assessing Summative Evaluation Readiness: Lessons LearnedApr 28, 2023
This brief presents the approach YARH used to identify the YARH grantee who is the summative evaluation partner.
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Adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Transition-Age Youth and Young Adults in Foster CareMar 31, 2023
The brief discusses cultural adaptations in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for transition-age youth and young adults who have experienced foster care.
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Determining Youth and Young Adult Eligibility for Services: Grantee Tools and ProcessesMar 01, 2023
This brief describes the tools and processes YARH-2 grantees implemented to identify and screen youth and young adults who might be eligible to participate in their comprehensive service models.
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Alameda County’s Youth Transitions Partnership Program: Lessons on Program Material DesignOct 31, 2022
This brief describes in detail how the Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP) in Alameda County, California revised their program enrollment materials to improve youth enrollment and early engagement in YTP.
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Designing Services for Youth and Young Adults At-Risk of Homelessness: Initial and Ongoing Implementation of YARH Grantees’ Comprehensive Service ModelsSep 30, 2021
This brief describes Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) grantees’ experiences with initial and ongoing implementation of their comprehensive service models.
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Building from SuccessSep 30, 2021
This brief summarizes perceived benefits of YARH-2 services to participating youth and young adults, positive influence of comprehensive service models within the child welfare system, and recommendations for future implementation.
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Designing Services for Youth and Young Adults At-Risk of Homelessness: Key Components of YARH Grantees’ Comprehensive Service ModelsSep 30, 2021
This brief summarizes strategies the grantees in the Youth At-Risk of Homelessness Project (YARH) used from 2015-2019 that supported implementation of their comprehensive service models, as well as other factors that facilitated implementation.
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Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: Design for an Implementation Study of "Pathways to Success"Aug 30, 2021
The Pathways implementation study will address two broad objectives.
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Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: Design for an Impact Study of "Pathways to Success"Aug 30, 2021
This study will be the first rigorous impact evaluation of Colorado’s Pathways comprehensive service model.
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Using Housing Vouchers to Support Youth with Child Welfare Experience at Risk of HomelessnessMar 01, 2021
This brief shares insights from the Colorado Department of Human Services and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families on how youth-serving organizations can use housing vouchers to support youth and young adults with previous child welfare system involvement and are at risk of homelessness....
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Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: What We've Done and Where We're GoingSep 30, 2020
To build evidence on what works to prevent homelessness for those who have been involved in the child welfare system, the Children’s Bureau funded a grant program, known as Youth at Risk of Homelessness. They released an infographic to show the progress of the grantees.
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Reducing Homelessness Among Youth with Child Welfare Involvement: Phase II Implementation Experiences in a Multi-Phase GrantSep 30, 2020
The purpose of this report is to highlight the findings and challenges that the the six YARH-2 grantees and their partners faced in their efforts to implement their models.
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Lessons from the Field: Using Continuous Quality Improvement to Refine Interventions for Youth at Risk of HomelessnessJan 30, 2020
This brief is part of a series that shares strategies used by organizations that serve youth and young adults who have been involved in the child welfare system and are at risk of homelessness.
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Varied Progress Toward Comprehensive Service Models and Evaluations (In the Spotlight)Aug 31, 2017
This spotlight is part of a series that summarizes high-level themes from a process study of YARH grantees’ activities and accomplishments during the two-year planning grant period.
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Sustaining Efforts to Reduce Youth Homelessness Without Additional Federal Funding (Issue Brief)Aug 31, 2017
This brief discusses how 7 of the 12 Phase I grantees who were not awarded Phase II grants are working to sustain efforts in their community to prevent homelessness based on the planning accomplished during Phase I.
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Reducing Homelessness Among Youth with Child Welfare Involvement: An Analysis of Phase I Planning Processes in a Multi-phase GrantAug 31, 2017
The focus of this report is a process study of Phase I. The report documents the activities and progress grantees made over the course of the planning period.
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Forging Partnerships (In the Spotlight)Aug 31, 2017
This spotlight is part of a series that summarizes high-level themes from a process study of YARH grantees’ activities and accomplishments during the two-year planning grant period.
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Creating and Maintaining Partner Buy-in and Commitment to Sharing Data (Lessons from the Field)Aug 31, 2017
The Children’s Bureau, within the Administration for Children and Families (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services) is funding a multi-phase grant program to build the evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults who have been involved in the child welfare system.
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Using Case Records to Understand Client Experiences (Lessons from the Field)Aug 31, 2017
The Children’s Bureau, within the Administration for Children and Families (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services) is funding a multi-phase grant program to build the evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults who have been involved in the child welfare system.
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Lessons Learned from the Planning Phase (In the Spotlight)Aug 31, 2017
This spotlight is part of a series that summarizes high-level themes from a process study of YARH grantees’ activities and accomplishments during the two-year planning grant period.
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Lessons from a Federal Initiative to Build Capacity to End Youth Homelessness (Issue Brief)Aug 31, 2017
This brief discusses the capacity strategy associated with "The Framework to End Youth Homelessness: A Resource Text for Dialogue and Action," (USICH, 2013) (herafter referred to as the “Framework”) and how the strategy was implemented by YARH Phase I grantees.
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Analysis of Data on Youth with Child Welfare Involvement at Risk of Homelessness (Issue Brief)Aug 31, 2017
This brief discusses the data strategy associated with the The Framework to End Youth Homelessness: A Resource Text for Dialogue and Action (USICH, 2013) (hereafter referred to as the “Framework”) and how the strategy was implemented by YARH Phase I grantees.
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Using a Predictive Risk Model to Identify Youth at Risk for Homelessness (Lessons from the Field)Aug 31, 2017
The Children’s Bureau, within the Administration for Children and Families (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services) is funding a multi-phase grant program to build the evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults who have been involved in the child welfare system.