December 10, 2012
Teaching Healthy Relationships to Youth in Foster Care |
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Research
suggests that having the skills to manage intimate partner
relationships can help youth make better decisions related to school,
employment, pregnancy prevention, and establishing strong, constructive
relationships. Growing attention is being paid to whether improving
relationship education for youth currently in foster care can help
improve their outcomes.
Among the findings:
- No relationship education programs exist that specifically target youth in foster care and have been rigorously evaluated.
- A
number of relationship education programs exist that serve other
vulnerable populations of youth, and some have been found to be
effective through the use of rigorous evaluations. Lessons
learned from programs and evaluations of these programs for other
populations can be used to help develop effective interventions for
youth in foster care.
- Relationship
education programs that address the needs of youth in foster care and
other highly vulnerable populations need to be developed and brought to a
stage where they can be evaluated rigorously.
- There is no one-size-fits-all approach to delivering relationship education to youth. Based on our understanding of the program needs of youth in foster care, combined with recommendations provided by relationship
education experts, program practitioners, youth, and government leaders
about how best to serve youth in foster care, we suggest
a tiered approach to program services, where relationship education
services are integrated into existing services or combined with related
interventions such as teen pregnancy prevention or youth development
programs.
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