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Blank Worksheet: The Good-Better-Best Continuum of Service Provision

Assists agencies to evaluate how well the services in an area of their choice follow the Youth Welfare approach.

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Case Study Worksheet: Providing Health Care Services for Youth in Care Along the Good-Better-Best Continuum

Assists readers in exploring the Youth Welfare approach to service provision in the area of health care.

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Embracing a "Youth Welfare" System: A Guide to Capacity Building

Learn about the Youth Welfare approach, which outlines how agencies can shift from a child-focused system to a youth-focused system.

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Good-Better-Best: A Youth Welfare Approach to Employment

Assists agencies to evaluate how well the services in an area of their choice follow the Youth Welfare approach.

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Good-Better-Best: A Youth Welfare Approach to Financial Literacy

Suggests examples of service provision for youth in foster care in the area of financial literacy and describes how those services can be improved using a “Good-Better-Best” continuum approach.

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Shifting Our Lens from Child Welfare to Youth Welfare [Graphic]

Illustrates the four shifts that need to occur at the organizational and practice levels to establish a youth welfare system that meets the needs of youth in foster care.

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The Parameters of Youth Welfare

Offers guidelines and practical suggestions for shifting from a child-focused system that is often reactive, case plan-driven, and protection-focused to a youth-focused system that is proactive, youth-driven, developmentally framed, and normalcy focused.