Agencies

These are resources that might be helpful if you work directly with youth through a government agency or non-goverment organization.

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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?

Support Youth

• How to temporarily stop youth from aging out of care?

• How to ensure youth have technology devices?

• How to help decide how a 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?

Support Your Workers

• Can social workers maintain their licenses during COVID-19?

• How to ensure worker safety during in-person interactions with families?

• How to provide childcare to social workers?

• 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 guidance is there from accrediting bodies on congregate care staffing?

• What are the current Title IV-E claiming procedures and eligibility reviews?

• Are timeline extensions for federal dollars possible?

Anything else?