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Topic 607 - Adoption Credit and Adoption Assistance Programs
Publisher(s):This page provides general information about the ATC including who can qualify, refund levels, and links to the necessary forms. The site also explains changes to the ATC over the past few years.
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Speak.Act.Change Youth Advocacy Kit
Publisher(s):The Speak.Act.Change Youth Advocacy Kit is a service-learning, youth activism program designed to complement any basic dating violence education curriculum. The program gives students the tools to protect themselves and their peers from dating violence.
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Healthy Relationships Protect Teens: A Parent’s Handbook
Publisher(s): Pre-teens and young teens who learn to develop healthy relationship skills are more likely to have healthy relationships throughout their lives. As a parent, you should provide reliable and accurate information to your 11-to-14-year-old about healthy relationships: what a healthy relationship feels like, looks like, and sounds like.
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NetSmartzKids
Publisher(s): NetSmartzKids is a program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement, the program offers resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations.
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Trauma-Informed Care in Afterschool
Publisher(s):This toolkit was developed to help program providers learn more about trauma-informed care and to assist in the planning and implementation of trauma-informed care in the afterschool environment.
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Healing-Centered and Trauma-Responsive Care Across Child Welfare for Better Youth Engagement
Publisher(s):This resource offers challenges and sample solutions that can help agencies consider how to improve engagement at their agencies by focusing on access to trauma-responsive and healing-centered care.
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The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities
Publisher(s):This resource was designed to assist human services professionals, law enforcement officers and others in helping victims of domestic violence and child abuse from polygamous communities in Arizona and Utah.
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Children and Media: Stereotypes
Publisher(s):This article suggests seven ways to fight stereotypes often portrayed in the media.
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How to Help a Grieving Child
Publisher(s):This resource describes lessons from the book 35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child.
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Talk about it...Tips for adults talking to youth about consent
Publisher(s):This handout offers tips for adults on how to talk to youth about sexual consent.
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Stop Abuse for Every (SAFE) Teen Act (S. 1447/H.R. 2689): Teen Dating Violence is an Education Issue
Publisher(s):This 2-page document summarizes information about the “Stop Abuse for Every Teen Act” or SAFE Teen Act designed to help schools play an important role in preventing teen dating violence.