The Promising Practices guide is the cornerstone of All Children-All Families as it outlines key benchmarks of LGBT cultural competency and providers a framework for agency affirmation of LGBT prospective parents.
Human Rights Campaign (2012)
Reaching Higher: A Curriculum for Foster/Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers Caring for LGBTQ Youth
Designed as a full-day facilitation, the curriculum was developed to help foster, kinship, adoptive, and biological families enhance their skills in supporting LGBTQ youth. The curriculum includes nine modules that provide participants with information on the impact and scope of LGBTQ youth in the foster care system and help participants to assess their own values and beliefs.
National Center for Child Welfare Excellence
Reaching Higher: Increasing Competency in Practice with LGBTQ Youth in Child Welfare System
The Reaching Higher curriculum includes nine modules designed to increase the skills of child welfare staff working with LGBTQ youth, regardless of where (e.g., kinship care, foster care or adoption) they are in the child welfare process.
National Center for Child Welfare Excellence (n.d)
Recommended LGBTQ Children, Youth, and Families Cultural Competence Tools, Curricula, and Resources
This synthesis recommends publicly available resources that can support workforce development in child-, youth-, and family-serving systems (e.g., schools, healthcare, child welfare, homelessness, juvenile justice). Resources are intended to support more competent practice and affirming, inclusive services and supports for LGBTQ children, youth, and families.
American Institutes for Research
Recommended Practice Guidelines: To Promote the Safety and Well–Being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth and Youth at Risk of or Living with HIV in Child Welfare Settings
The recommended practices offer guidance to state and local child welfare agencies to ensure safe, appropriate care in the best interests of LGBTQ children in the child welfare system.
Child Welfare League of America & Lambda Legal (2012)
Sharing Our Lived Experiences: 22 Tips for Caring for Two-Spirit and Native LGBTQ Youth in the Child Welfare System
This tip sheet focuses on the culturally and linguistically competencies related to Two-Spirit and Native American youth in foster care.
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Tribes & National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections
Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People
This protocol outlines the treatment for transgender, and gender nonconforming people who wish to undergo hormonal or surgical transition.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health
Suicide Prevention Among LGBT Youth: A Workshop for Professionals Who Serve Youth
This is a free workshop kit to help staff in schools, youth-serving organizations, and suicide prevention programs take action to reduce suicidal behavior among LGBT youth. Topics covered include suicidal behavior among LGBT youth, risk and protective factors for suicidal behavior, strategies to reduce the risk, and ways to increase school or agency cultural competence. The kit contains everything needed to host a workshop: a Leader’s Guide, sample agenda, PowerPoint presentations (in PDF), a sample script, and handouts.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC; 2011)
Supporting Your LGBTQ Youth: A Guide for Foster Parents
This guide is designed to improve foster parents’ skills in supporting LGBTQ youth in the child welfare system. The guide emphasizes the unique role that foster parents can play in reducing risks and stigma while improving youths’ health and well-being in the community.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Teen SENSE: Model Sexual Health Care Standards for Youth in State Custody
This resource reflects the minimum requirements that facilities should meet in order to appropriately address the sexual health care needs of youth in the state’s care. Youth should be provided with confidential, culturally competent care including physical and mental health screenings; universal offers of STI and HIV testing; written information, counseling, and treatment related to pregnancy, STI and HIV transmission and prevention, and sexual violence; and ongoing care and discharge planning related to sexual and reproductive health.
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (2012)
The Model Standards Project: Creating Inclusive Systems for LGBT Youth in Out-of-Home Care
This article describes the history, development, and goals of the Model Standards Project (MSP), a collaboration between Legal Services for Children and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. The article concludes with recommendations for implementation of the standards in local jurisdictions.
Legal Services for Children & National Center for Lesbian Rights (2006)
The Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) Approach to Evaluation
The PII Approach to Evaluation is part of the overall PII Approach, which integrates implementation science and program evaluation in a coordinated framework.
Children’s Bureau Child Welfare Information Gateway (2014)
The Tribal Equity Tool Kit: Tribal Resolutions and Codes to Support Two-Spirit and LGBT Justice in Indian Country
This toolkit provides sample legal language for adapting tribal resolutions and codes to recognize the rights of all tribal citizens, including Two Spirit and LGBTQ Natives. This is the third edition of the toolkit published with the support of a growing coalition of national organizations including the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Western States Center and the Center for American Progress.
Tips for Child Welfare Professionals: Talking About LGBT-Headed Families
This tip sheet discuss talking to and working with LGBT-headed families.
National Resource Center for the Permanency and Family Connections (2012)
Toolkit for Practitioners/Researchers Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning Runaway and Homeless Youth
This resource discusses the overrepresentation of LGBTQ youth in homeless and runaway populations.
National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (2012)