This issue brief covers the positive impact of CCR on California’s foster care system, discusses recent efforts to support youth with complex needs, and offers a look at ongoing work to improve outcomes for California foster youth.
Building Community Support to Prevent Family Involvement in the Child Welfare System
This hour-long webinar, developed by the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, suggests strategies for encouraging family care plans. Such plans can prevent child welfare involvement—and family separation—for infants and their parents/caregivers who are identified as affected by prenatal substance exposure.
Stepping Up – Local Strategies
This is an interactive library of programs, policies, and practices that jurisdictions across the country have implemented to help reduce the prevalence of community members with unmet behavioral health needs in their jails.
Applying Critical Race Theory in Recovery Services
Phil Rutherford and host Ashley Stewart review the tenets of critical race theory and discuss how to apply them when providing recovery support services.
Self-Care, Mental Health and Geography
DaVonti’ Haynes and Daryl McGraw discuss self-care and what it looks and feels like for people of diverse populations living in different regions and environments with host Ashley Stewart.