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BOOKLETS
CPYP Publications
Emancipated Youth Connections Project Final Report/Toolkit (2008)
This report presents findings and recommendations from the Emancipated Youth Connections Project, a model program designed to seek and sustain permanent lifelong connections for older youth who have already emancipated from foster care without a permanent connection to a caring adult. Several sample forms and other resources are also included.
EYCP Final Report/Toolkit 
EYCP Toolkit Resources and Forms
CPYP Organizational Development Guide for Youth Permanency (2007)
This practice guide details what CPYP has found to be successful in working
with public child welfare agencies on youth permanency practice, based on
the project's experience in working with fourteen California counties.
Organizational Development Guide 
Organizational Development Guide online resources
Six Steps to Find a Family: A Practice Guide on Family Search and Engagement (2007)
Jointly developed by the National Resource Center for
Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning at the Hunter College School of Social Work and CPYP,
this guide outlines steps both for finding families and creating connections
once family members are found.
Six Steps Guide 
Recommendations
for Effective Partnerships on Youth Permanence (2006)
Three summary reports of recommendations on how effective partnerships between child welfare agencies and a) the juvenile courts, b) group homes,
and c) adoption/foster family agencies can accomplish improved permanency outcomes for foster youth.
Partnerships between Juvenile Courts and Child Welfare
Partnerships between Group Homes and Child Welfare
Partnerships between Adoption and Foster Family Agencies and Child Welfare 
A Call to Action: An
Integrated Approach to Youth Permanency
and Preparation for Adulthood (2005)
A joint publication of CPYP and
Casey Family Services, this document addresses the complex needs
unique to adolescents in foster care.
A Call to Action 
Model Programs Update (2005)
This 2005 addendum to the Model
Programs for Youth Permanency booklet includes brief descriptions of
sixteen additional programs throughout the United States.
Model Programs Update (2005) 
Model Programs for Youth Permanency (2004)
This CPYP publication reports on nine
exemplary permanency programs throughout the U.S. and explains the
critical elements of such programs.
Model Programs (2004)

Youth Perspectives on
Permanency (2004)
"What do foster youth think about
permanency?" CPYP, in partnership with the
California Youth Connection (CYC), held interviews and focus groups
with several foster youth to talk about this question. This document
explores some of their answers.
Youth Perspectives (2004) 
California County Publications
Finding Permanency for Youth Resource Handbook (2006)
A publication of
Fresno County Department of Children and Family Services, this handbook emphases the
inherent practices and principles around permanency and is designed to served as a tool
to help promote lifelong connections and make permanency a reality for all youth in
out of home care.
Youth Resource Handbook (2006) 
A Guide to Permanency Options for Youth (2005)
A publication of
Alameda County Social Services Agency, this document provides concise
information about various permanency options, including reunification,
adoption, and legal guardianship. Comparison charts show the differences
in financial benefits and legal and psychosocial factors among the various
permanency options.
Permanency Options for Youth (2005) 
These documents
are in PDF format. To download Acrobat Reader,
click here.
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