Social Policy for Children and Families: A Risk and Resilience Perspective
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Chapter 1. A Risk and Resilience Framework for
Child, Youth, and Family Policy
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Kids Count Data Center - Annie E. Casey Foundation
Chapter 2. Antipoverty Policies and Programs for Children and Families
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Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin–Madison
National Center for Children in Poverty
National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Chapter 3. Child Welfare Policies and Programs
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American Psychological Association, Task Force on Resilience and Strength in Black Children and Adolescents. (2008). Resilience in African American children and adolescents: A vision for optimal development.
Child Trends for key statistical summaries, child and family trend data and issue summaries
Resilience and strength in Black children and adolescents
U.S. Children’s Bureau for state outcomes and foster care statistics
Chapter 4. Education Policy for Children, Youth, and Families
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Chapter 5. Child Mental Health Policy: Promise Without Fulfillment?
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Bazelon Center for Mental Health and Law
National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
National Alliance for Mental Illness
National Institute of Mental Health
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Evidence-Based Practices
Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies & Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. (n.d.). Evidence-based mental health treatment for children and adolescents.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network. (2010). Empirically supported treatments and promising practices.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2007). A guide to evidence-based practices on the web.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2010). National registry of evidence-based practices: NREPP.
Chapter 6. Health Policy for Children and Youth
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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP)
Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Maternal and Child Health Information Resource Center, Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Chapter 7. Policies and Programs for Children and Youth With Disabilities
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Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Institute for Community Inclusion
TASH: Equal Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities
Chapter 8. Policies and Programs for Adolescent Substance Abuse
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National Institute on Drug Abuse
Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: ImpacTeen
Chapter 9. Juvenile Justice Policies and Programs
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Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (Blueprints)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Chapter 10. Toward the Integration of Child, Youth, and Family Policy: Applying Principles of Risk, Resilience, and Ecological Theory
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