This guide was created by the Children's Bureau to help caseworkers, foster parents, and other stakeholders learn about trauma experienced by youth in foster care. Additionally, the guide includes treatment options, including approaches other than medication, and strategies for seeking help for foster youth.

This report, from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and ACF, provides an overview of the critical lessons learned from a 2013 roundtable of national and local leaders from promising programs. The roundtable members convened to discuss current efforts to help youth build financial capability through employment programs.

OFA published data on state implementation of the five-year time limit on federally-funded TANF assistance. By law, a state may not use TANF funds to provide assistance to a family that has an adult head-of-household who has received federal assistance for a total of five years (i.e., 60 cumulative months, whether or not consecutive).

This report from Young Invincibles examines the many challenges faced by Millennial parents, a rapidly growing sect of the U.S. population. Young Invincibles developed and analyzed a young parent grouping in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey data and found that due to lower wages, stagnant employment rates, and rising costs, Millennial parents have experienced the highest poverty rates of young parents in the past 25 years. The report includes comparisons between the average days of Millennials with and without children, as well as policy implications and recommendations.

Today in the United States, 57,000 children are living in group placements. This report describes the importance of limiting the role of residential treatment care to its intended purpose, as well as how state and local leaders can work together to enhance family-oriented services. The end goal is to create brighter futures and families for America’s most vulnerable youth.

This descriptive toolkit provides practice principles about supported employment, an innovative approach to implementing vocational rehabilitation for individuals with serious mental illnesses. The kit also presents practitioners and service providers with evidence-based tools for aiding this target population.

This issue of Future of Children focuses on two-generation approaches to improving children’s development. A child’s home environment can impact stress, education, health, income, employment, and more throughout his or her life. Two-generation programs serve parents and children simultaneously to improve family wellbeing. The articles within this journal emphasize current programs and identify the many benefits of using a two-generation approach.

This webinar from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Community Matters series explores the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative. The Initiative aims to transform a neighborhood into a mixed-income community with new and renovated housing, commercial development, improved schools, better safety, more engaged residents, and a larger employment base. The speakers share the project’s efforts and achievements, as well as similar programs taking place in New Orleans.

The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) has posted Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and Separate State Program (SSP) caseload and application data for the first and second quarters of FY 2015. For the first two quarters of FY 2015, the monthly average was 1,663,008 families receiving assistance (TANF & SSP), which represents a decrease of less than one percent (.45) from the prior fiscal year of 1,670,576. The monthly average number of recipients for FY 2015 was 4,178,589 receiving assistance (TANF & SSP), which represents an increase of approximately 6.6% from the prior fiscal year of 3,919,192.