CASA Training Manuals
Child Welfare System Issues
- Adverse Childhood Experiences: National and State-Level Prevalence
- DCFS Newsletters
- Foster Care (Jill Hamilton)
- Foster Care (Debra Bloom)
- Foster Placements: Why They Succeed and Why They Fail
- Integrating Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being
- MAT Procedure Guide
- No Matter How Loud I Shout
- Orphans of the Living
- The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System
- The Road to Safety: Final Report of the Los Angeles County Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection
- To the End of June
- Visit Coaching: Building on Family Strengths to Meet Children’s Needs
- Visitation with Infants and Toddlers in Foster Care: What Judges and Attorneys Need to Know
Communication
Developmental Delays and Challenges
- Language development and delay in internationally adopted infants and toddlers
- Rights Under the Lanterman Act
- Special Education Rights & Responsibilities
Early Childhood
- A Science-Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy: Using Evidence to Improve Outcomes in Learning, Behavior, and Health for Vulnerable Children
- Early Experiences Matter: A Guide to improved policies for Infants and Toddlers. Zero to Three
- Ensuring the Healthy Development of Infants in Foster Care: A Guide for Judges, Advocates and Child Welfare Professionals
- From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Child Development
- From Neurons to Neighborhoods: An Update
- Healing the Youngest Children: Model Court-Community Partnerships
- Infants in the child welfare system: A developmental framework for policy and practice
- Informing Policy Choices about Infants and Toddlers
- Questions Every Judge and Lawyer Should Ask About Infants and Toddlers in the Child Welfare System
- Pathways to Competence: Encouraging Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children
- Pathways to Competence for Young Children: A Parenting Program
- Socioemotional Development in the Toddler Years: Transitions and Transformations
- The Emotional Life of the Toddler
- Touchpoints: The Essential Reference
Early Intervention
- A Developmental Systems Model for Early Intervention
- Early intervention with multi-risk families: An integrative approach
- Mental Health in Early Intervention: Achieving Unity in Principles and Practice
Education
- At Greater Risk: California Foster Youth and the Path from High School to College
- Policy Statement on Expulsion and Suspension Policies in Early Childhood Settings
- Students in Foster Care
- Sustaining Momentum: Improving Educational Stability for Young People in Foster Care
- The Complete IEP Guide: How To Advocate for Your Special Ed Child
- The Invisible Achievement Gap, Part 1: Education Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in California’s Public Schools
- The Invisible Achievement Gap Part 2: How the Foster Care Experiences of California Public School Students Are Associated with Their Education Outcomes
Fiction
Health
- Children with Chronic Conditions
- Health Care Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care and Kinship Care
- Medical Events & Traumatic Stress in Children and Families
- Premature Babies
- Which Foods to Eat and Avoid During Pregnancy: A Pregnancy Food Guide
- Understanding The Medical Diagnosis of Child Maltreatment: A Guide for Nonmedical Professionals
Incarcerated Parents
- Loving Through Bars: Children With Parents in Prison
- Parents in Prison
- When a Parent is Incarcerated: A Primer for Social Workers
Juvenile Justice
- A Profile of Youth in the Los Angeles County Delinquency Prevention Pilot
- Core Principles for Reducing Recidivism and Improving Other Outcomes for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Memoirs
- A Child Called “It”
- A Man Named Dave
- Another Place at the Table
- Finding Fish
- Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- I Speak for This Child
- Hope’s Boy
- Nobody, Nowhere
- Punished for Purpose: From Out of the Darkness Came A Powerful Healing Light
- The Lost Boy
- They Cage Animals at Night
- Thinking in Pictures
- Three Little Words: A Memoir
- Three More Words
- Turning Stones
Mental Health
- An Unquiet Mind
- Children’s Mental Health: What Every Policymaker Should Know
- Clinical Work with Traumatized Young Children
- Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Theory and Clinical Intervention
- Girl Interrupted
- Healing the Shame That Binds You
- Interventions for Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Characteristics and Needs of Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Their Families
- Interventions for Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Evidence-Based and Promising Practices
- Interventions for Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Implementation Considerations
- Interventions for Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Medication Management
- Interventions for Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Selecting Evidence-Based Practices for Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders to Address
- Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents
Parent-Child Relationship
- Age-specific observations of the parent–child interaction
- Improving Maternal and Infant Mental Health: Focus on Maternal Depression
- Loneliness, Depression, Stress, and Social Supports in Neglectful Families
- Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton
- Responsive Parenting: A Strategy to Prevent Violence
- Serve and Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry
- Strengthening Families: A Protective Factors Framework
Poverty
Race and Disproportionality
- Achieving Racial Equity: Child Welfare Policy Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Children of Color
- Addressing Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare
- Children of color in the child welfare system: Perspectives from the child welfare community
- Disparities and Disproportionality in Child Welfare: Analysis of the Research
- Knowing Who You Are
- Race Matters in child welfare
- Safe and Respected: Policies, Best Practices, and Guidance for Serving Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children and Youth Involved in the Child Welfare, Detention, and Juvenile Justice Systems
- The Economic Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
Resilience
Self Regulation
- Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self
- Self-Regulation: A Cornerstone of Early Childhood Development
Separation and Attachment Disturbance
- Separation and Reunification: Using Attachment Theory and Research to Inform Decisions Affecting the Placements of Children in Foster Care
- When a Child is Inconsolable: Staying Near
Transition Age Youth
- AB12 Primer Updated Jan 2014
- Beyond The Foster Care System: The Future for Teens
- California’s Extension of Foster Care Through Age 21: An Opportunity for Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting Support
- California’s Most Vulnerable Parents: When Maltreated Children Have Children
- Ending Youth Homelessness Before It Begins: Prevention and Early Intervention Services for Older Adolescents
- Everybody Needs Someone: The Aging-Out of Foster Care Project
- Forty Developmental Assets for Adolescents
- On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System?
- Never Too Old: Achieving Permanency and Sustaining Connections for Older Youth in Foster Care
- Pathways to and From Homelessness and Associated Psychosocial Outcomes Among Adolescents Leaving the Foster Care System
- Promising Practices: How Foster Parents Can Support the Successful Transition of Youth From Foster Care to Self-Sufficiency
- Reviving Ophelia
- Transition Age Youth and the Child Protection System: Demographics and Case Characteristics, California
- What Young People Need to Thrive: Leveraging the Strengthening Families Act to Promote Normalcy
Trauma
- A Call to Action On Behalf of Maltreated Infants and Toddlers
- Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents
- Child Abuse Trauma: Theory and Treatment of the Lasting Effects
- Child Exposure to Trauma: Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions Addressing Maltreatment
- Early Childhood, Domestic Violence, and Poverty: Helping Young Children and Their Families
- Escaping Domestic Violence: What You Need To Know
- Handbook of Stress, Trauma, and the Family
- Hope and Healing: A Caregiver’s Guide to Helping Young Children Affected by Trauma
- Sexually Assaulted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics
- The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
- Too Scared to Cry
- Trauma-Informed Practice with Young People in Foster Care
- Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents: Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
- Young Children and Trauma: Intervention and Treatment
