SERVICES
Cby25® Initiative provides cost effective and efficient programs and services to agencies and organizations that serve youth in foster care and juvenile justice programs. Cby25® Initiative works with service providers, advocates and community members to build upon existing resources to meet the specific needs of the community and the youth they serve.
Trainings
Technical Assistance
Cby25® Initiative provides technical assistance to state child welfare and juvenile justice agencies, community based care foster care providers and dependency/ delinquency court systems.
Technical Assistance is offered in the following areas:
- Program development and service delivery design
- Policies and Procedures for improved service delivery and contract monitoring
- Quality assurance compliance and reporting
- Outcome based data collection methods
Want to inquire about Technical Assistance for your area? Contact us here.
Independent Living & Transitioning Youth Program Design
Cby25® Initiative offers expertise in Independent Living Services and Transitioning Youth Program design. Our programs establish improved infrastructure, service standards, and measureable lines of accountability. Our experts guide agency leaders through the system design process with ongoing quality assurance and monitoring supports.
E-Tools: Foster Care System
National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD): The Cby25® Initiative NYTD system is a turn-key solution for states and agencies required to meet NYTD standards. The Cby25® Initiative system allows youth to respond to NYTD PLUS questions in a youth-friendly, engaging online system that can be accessed anywhere. Like all of our youth surveys, this system is made complete with an extended-hours help desk for youth and a data organization feature, which allows approved persons to collect, organize and filter data provided by the surveyed youth.
Contact us if you’re interested in learning more about our Cby25® Initiative NYTD data collection services.
My Services™ Review: Is an online youth survey that can be utilized by the Court System, State Child Welfare Agencies, and Foster Care Service Providers. This E-tool is designed to give youth ages 13-17 a voice while collecting outcome data. All survey questions measure age-appropriate youth outcomes, not process, which can be utilized for quality assurance and contract monitoring.
Information collected from youth can lead to better ways of doing business, especially when all system partners are working from the same information. In most child welfare systems, caseworkers are asked, “Did the youth change foster care placement?” thereby providing one piece of information. In the My Services™ Review, we ask the youth:
“Did you change foster care placement?”
“Did you know you were changing foster care placement?”
“Were you involved in the decision to change foster care placement?”
The answers to these questions provide information about the condition, situation, and perception of the youth’s experience.
My Services™ Review is customizable and supported by an extended-hours help desk for youth and a data organization feature, which allows approved persons to collect, organize and filter data provided by the surveyed youth.
Contact us if you’re interested in learning more about our Cby25® Initiative My Services™ data collection services.
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The Cby25® Initiative P2P Policy to Practice academy is a partnership with Cby25® Initiative staff and certified Cby25® youth trainers ages 13 to 21. Trainings target effective strategies for the implementation of laws and policies serving transitioning youth and are provided to state child welfare and juvenile justice agencies, community based care agencies, juvenile justice & child welfare staff, courts and other youth serving agencies.