The document outlines the agenda for the Ohio Youth Advisory Board meeting on October 20, 2016. The agenda includes welcoming remarks and updates, officer elections, and lunch with a guest speaker. It also provides information on upcoming OHIO YAB statewide quarterly meetings in 2017 and the duties of various officer positions that will be elected, such as President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Details are given on past and upcoming events related to foster care.
This document discusses the challenges that foster youth face during the holiday season. It includes an open letter from Daniel Knapp, a former foster youth, describing his difficult experiences with holidays in foster care and feeling like an outsider. It also shares quotes from other foster youth discussing feeling lonely and missing their biological families during the holidays. The document provides tips for supportive adults to help foster youth feel more comfortable and included during the holiday season.
What’s Involved with Aging-Out of the Foster Care System? The Big Picture: Tr...Elizabeth E. Brait
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This document provides an overview of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997 and how it affects permanency planning for teenagers in foster care. ASFA prioritizes child safety and requires expedited timelines for permanency hearings and termination of parental rights proceedings. It recognizes adoption, kinship care, and subsidized permanent legal custody as permanency options. However, long-term foster care is supposed to be temporary under ASFA. Research shows many youths who age out of foster care face negative outcomes. Barriers to permanency for teenagers include prioritizing it less due to their development stage, and using sequential rather than concurrent case management.
CSCC Resources for Foster and Homeless YouthLisa Dickson
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Compiled by Stephanie Starks, in support of the Alumni Support and Assistance Project (ASAP). For more information about this project, please visit: http://www.oyit-asap.net/
This document summarizes best practices for working with youth in foster care based on perspectives from foster care alumni. It discusses how trauma can affect how foster youth view themselves and the world, and emphasizes the importance of making foster youth feel safe, trusting, in control, and maintaining connections to build resilience. Specific tips include giving youth information about their future, allowing them to express themselves, understanding building trust takes time, being aware of emotional triggers, and serving as role models for positive relationships.
Caregivers normalcy and rpps power point updated 9 2015-personalizedLisa Dickson
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The document discusses normalcy and the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS). It explains that normalcy legislation and the RPPS allow foster parents to use normal parenting judgement to approve activities for foster youth. This aims to provide foster youth with developmentally-appropriate experiences and a sense of belonging. The document outlines factors for caregivers to consider when applying the standard, such as developmental level and risk factors. It also discusses the importance of normalcy for youth development and well-being.
The Ohio Youth Advisory Board met on January 19th, 2017 to discuss priorities and goals for the upcoming year. They introduced new officers and discussed having to reschedule a follow-up retreat due to weather. Their priority areas for 2017 included recruiting and retaining foster parents for teens, informing foster youth about resources, and creating videos by youth for youth on these topics. They also discussed potential projects on mapping resources for youth in crisis and developing an app.
The Ohio Youth Advisory Board (OYAB) Officers Retreat will take place on January 14, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio. The retreat schedule includes welcoming remarks and introductions in the morning, as well as sessions on the OYAB mission, code of conduct, strategic plan, and brainstorming ways to move forward in 2017. After lunch, the agenda covers budgeting for 2017, communication strategies, and additional business. The documents provide details on the oath of office for OYAB officers and discuss moving forward on policy, housing, education, court involvement, independent living, workforce development, budgeting, communication, and other business.
cyberThink is seeking a junior, mid-level, or senior recruiter for their Bridgewater, New Jersey office. The recruiter will be responsible for implementing recruiting campaigns, maintaining awareness of company recruitment needs, submitting qualified candidates, following hiring policies, and possessing excellent customer service skills. Qualified candidates should have a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, human resources or equivalent experience, proficiency in Microsoft Office, and recruiting experience.
Foster care youth face greater challenges transitioning to adulthood than those with familial support networks. They often "age out" of the system without a safety net. This document discusses empowering foster youth and alumni to build successful lives through addressing their top three needs: regional Thanksgiving events, sponsorship for advocacy trips to Washington D.C., and a program for storing professional clothing. It describes an event where foster care alumni shared a Thanksgiving meal on Capitol Hill to advocate for policies to better support youth transitioning out of foster care.
Zhenglei Gong has over 10 years of experience in performance engineering and validation testing for server platforms. At Intel, he creates auto-installers for Linux distributions to speed up installation by 50%, tunes benchmarks, and troubleshoots performance issues. As a validation engineer, he designed test cases, led validation efforts for several server products, and achieved on-time deliveries. Previously at Inventec, he performed integration and validation testing, established efficient testing environments, and executed various tests on server systems.
Design and Development of a Malayalam to English Translator- A Transfer Based...Waqas Tariq
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This paper describes a transfer based scheme for translating Malayalam, a Dravidian language, to English. This system inputs Malayalam sentences and outputs equivalent English sentences. The system comprises of a preprocessor for splitting the compound words, a morphological parser for context disambiguation and chunking, a syntactic structure transfer module and a bilingual dictionary. All the modules are morpheme based to reduce dictionary size. The system does not rely on a stochastic approach and it is based on a rule-based architecture along with various linguistic knowledge components of both Malayalam and English. The system uses two sets of rules: rules for Malayalam morphology and rules for syntactic structure transfer from Malayalam to English. The system is designed using artificial intelligence techniques.
2017 Emotional Resiliency for Teens in Foster CareLisa Dickson
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This document provides an overview of a workshop on adolescents in foster care and emotional resiliency. It discusses how foster youth experience trauma from displacement and removal from their homes, which can lead to PTSD. It also explores how foster youth develop survival behaviors and how the foster care system can further traumatize them. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of emotional support for foster youth through stable relationships and permanency. The document advocates for foster youth to have a voice and be active agents in their care.
This document outlines the agenda for a three-day trip to advocate on Capitol Hill for issues affecting youth transitioning out of foster care. The group will receive training on the legislative process, discuss current relevant bills, and role play legislative visits. Their agenda includes meeting with several Ohio legislators to discuss priority issues like extending foster care supports and housing assistance beyond age 18. The document provides background on federal child welfare funding streams and recent reform efforts to help the youth understand the policy issues.
The document summarizes a three-day trip to Washington D.C. by the Ohio Youth Advisory Board to influence policies affecting foster youth. The board received training from organizations like the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute and Casey Family Programs. They met with representatives and government agencies to discuss issues like transitional housing, high school credit transfers, using Title IV-E funds for youth training, and improving compliance with NYTD reporting. The youth delegates advocated their perspectives on these focus areas and appreciated the support of their sponsors and allies during the productive trip to Washington.
The Ohio Youth Advisory Board met on January 19th, 2017 to discuss priorities and goals for the upcoming year. They introduced new officers and discussed having to reschedule a follow-up retreat due to weather. Their priority areas for 2017 included recruiting and retaining foster parents for teens, informing foster youth about resources, and creating videos by youth for youth on these topics. They also discussed potential projects on mapping resources for youth in crisis and developing an app.
The Ohio Youth Advisory Board (OYAB) Officers Retreat will take place on January 14, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio. The retreat schedule includes welcoming remarks and introductions in the morning, as well as sessions on the OYAB mission, code of conduct, strategic plan, and brainstorming ways to move forward in 2017. After lunch, the agenda covers budgeting for 2017, communication strategies, and additional business. The documents provide details on the oath of office for OYAB officers and discuss moving forward on policy, housing, education, court involvement, independent living, workforce development, budgeting, communication, and other business.
cyberThink is seeking a junior, mid-level, or senior recruiter for their Bridgewater, New Jersey office. The recruiter will be responsible for implementing recruiting campaigns, maintaining awareness of company recruitment needs, submitting qualified candidates, following hiring policies, and possessing excellent customer service skills. Qualified candidates should have a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, human resources or equivalent experience, proficiency in Microsoft Office, and recruiting experience.
Foster care youth face greater challenges transitioning to adulthood than those with familial support networks. They often "age out" of the system without a safety net. This document discusses empowering foster youth and alumni to build successful lives through addressing their top three needs: regional Thanksgiving events, sponsorship for advocacy trips to Washington D.C., and a program for storing professional clothing. It describes an event where foster care alumni shared a Thanksgiving meal on Capitol Hill to advocate for policies to better support youth transitioning out of foster care.
Zhenglei Gong has over 10 years of experience in performance engineering and validation testing for server platforms. At Intel, he creates auto-installers for Linux distributions to speed up installation by 50%, tunes benchmarks, and troubleshoots performance issues. As a validation engineer, he designed test cases, led validation efforts for several server products, and achieved on-time deliveries. Previously at Inventec, he performed integration and validation testing, established efficient testing environments, and executed various tests on server systems.
Design and Development of a Malayalam to English Translator- A Transfer Based...Waqas Tariq
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This paper describes a transfer based scheme for translating Malayalam, a Dravidian language, to English. This system inputs Malayalam sentences and outputs equivalent English sentences. The system comprises of a preprocessor for splitting the compound words, a morphological parser for context disambiguation and chunking, a syntactic structure transfer module and a bilingual dictionary. All the modules are morpheme based to reduce dictionary size. The system does not rely on a stochastic approach and it is based on a rule-based architecture along with various linguistic knowledge components of both Malayalam and English. The system uses two sets of rules: rules for Malayalam morphology and rules for syntactic structure transfer from Malayalam to English. The system is designed using artificial intelligence techniques.
2017 Emotional Resiliency for Teens in Foster CareLisa Dickson
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This document provides an overview of a workshop on adolescents in foster care and emotional resiliency. It discusses how foster youth experience trauma from displacement and removal from their homes, which can lead to PTSD. It also explores how foster youth develop survival behaviors and how the foster care system can further traumatize them. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of emotional support for foster youth through stable relationships and permanency. The document advocates for foster youth to have a voice and be active agents in their care.
This document outlines the agenda for a three-day trip to advocate on Capitol Hill for issues affecting youth transitioning out of foster care. The group will receive training on the legislative process, discuss current relevant bills, and role play legislative visits. Their agenda includes meeting with several Ohio legislators to discuss priority issues like extending foster care supports and housing assistance beyond age 18. The document provides background on federal child welfare funding streams and recent reform efforts to help the youth understand the policy issues.
The document summarizes a three-day trip to Washington D.C. by the Ohio Youth Advisory Board to influence policies affecting foster youth. The board received training from organizations like the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute and Casey Family Programs. They met with representatives and government agencies to discuss issues like transitional housing, high school credit transfers, using Title IV-E funds for youth training, and improving compliance with NYTD reporting. The youth delegates advocated their perspectives on these focus areas and appreciated the support of their sponsors and allies during the productive trip to Washington.