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      • Communicate About COVID-19
        • How to host a virtual town hall?
        • How to communicate with older foster youth via text?
        • How to effectively conduct community outreach virtually?
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        • How to temporarily stop youth from aging out of care?
        • How to ensure youth have technology devices?
        • How to help decide how a foster youth returns to school?
        • How to serve pregnant and parenting youth?
        • How to support youth experiencing homelessness?
        • How to treat cases that overlap foster care and juvenile justice?
        • How to limit the impact of COVID-19 for justice involved youth?
        • Are there resources to support tribal communities?
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        • How to ensure worker safety during in-person interactions with families?
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        • How to purchase of technology and personal protective equipment?
        • How to help group homes and agencies get PPE for their staff?
        • What resources do workers have to invest in self-care?
      • Support Foster Families and Licensing
        • How should foster parents prepare if they contract COVID-19 with foster youth in their care?
        • How to license homes while social distancing?
        • How to move foster parent orientation and training online?
        • How to temporarily license relatives/kin or foster parents during COVID-19?
        • How to ensure fingerprinting doesn't stop your work?
        • How to use FMAP to supplement foster parent rates?
      • Alter Procedures Previously Done In-Person
        • How to conduct visitation by phone or video?
        • How to use technology and maintain privacy during virtual visitations?
        • How to safely reopen in-person visitation?
        • How to conduct investigations?
        • What to do about court hearings?
        • How to design a trauma-informed quarantine or medical isolation program?
      • Comply with Requirements
        • What are the current Title IV-E claiming procedures and eligibility reviews?
        • Are timeline extensions for federal dollars possible?
        • What guidance is there from accrediting bodies on congregate care staffing?
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This site is a library of very practical things to do, curated by .

For issues faced by foster youth:

Our aim is to coalesce the plethora of resources and rapidly growing body of information around COVID-19 into a curated and situational framework to help youth easily identify what to know and how to take action based on the scenario(s) in which they are finding themselves.

A team of community responders with lived experience in foster care works to synthesize and write content in response to these scenarios based on questions and inquiries received from current and former foster youth across the nation via different channels (, consultations with youth, direct emails, , social media comments, research from organizations like at the University of Pennsylvania and , and other youth stories).

For example, in one of the organized in collaboration with the Children's Bureau, we collected and analyzed over 2,000 questions submitted by youth, to respond to their most pressing concerns. Here's what was on their minds:

And these are some of the powerful questions that young people asked:

For issues faced by agencies:

Our aim is to work with child welfare staff in states across the nation to identify processes and policies that have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and find examples of instances where they have been updated or adapted which can be replicated by the broader community.

Think of Us also coordinates a Working Group between key stakeholders in child welfare, formed specifically to answer and address novel questions that have not been answered yet. This Working Group meets regularly and is on-standby to address novel issues as they emerge.

The information and materials on this web site are intended for informational purposes only and are not intended to be treated as legal advice.

When Think of Us is presented with a new question, it first reaches out to states across the country to see if anyone else has answered this question or addressed this issue, with agencies and states pro-bono to trouble-shoot moderate technical problems, such as , before sharing policy guidance and language with all stakeholders.

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