Schools are in a unique position to provide their students comprehensive health services and referrals to community-based health centers, due to their accessibility to students and their ability to provide health education targeted specifically for young people. Schools have the important responsibility of addressing the needs of students by…

This document was produced by the Family Resource Center, a federally funded project designed to develop and share resources and information on youth services, child abuse and neglect, and child welfare in Region VIII, which includes Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. This resource guide contains introductory…

This guide is a tool designed to help workers and youth work together as a team. The guide will help them to determine what each young person can or could do well (their capabilities and capacities) and, also, what is needed, that is, if there is anything missing, absent or required in a young persons life. The guide is divided into five sections…

This guide to self-evaluation and improvement builds upon the advice given in the publication "A Guide to Evaluating Services for Children and Young People Using Quality Indicators" (HMIE, 2006) (A summary of the quality indicators is reproduced in Appendix I). Local authorities, agencies and professionals who have responsibilities for…

"Engaging Residents to Improve Results for Children and Youth, Families and Communities" is a "Toolkit" that is the product of an international working group composed of delegates from six participating nations--Chile, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2002, the working group set out…