Resources for Professionals

The Department provides policy information as well as an array of practice and service guides to help ensure DCS and other professionals have sufficient information and tools to inform and guide their practice. Policy, practice and service guides pertinent to older youth are highlighted here, but there are many more guides you may wish to review. Opportunities for training to enhance skills for effective engagement with youth, and knowledge of program services and supports are also available, including:

• Addiction Education (no cost)
• E-Cigarettes (no cost)
• Human Trafficking (no cost)
• Post-Secondary Education Planning (no cost)
• Motivational Interviewing (fee)
• Young Adult Program/YAP (no cost)
• Youth Thrive (no cost)

Practice Guides

• Engaging with LGBTQ+ Youth
• Inclusive Language
• Preserving a Child's Connections to Family, Tribe, Culture and Community
• Sex Trafficking

Policy

• Supporting Youth in Transition to Adulthood
• Travel: Children in Care and DCS Escorts
• Foster Parent Travel Reimbursement

Service Guides

• Arizona Families First (Substance Use)
• Education and Training Voucher/ETV
• Following the Every Student Succeeds Act/ESSA
  • Quick link to ESSA Contacts
• Language Interpreting/Translation
• Transitional Housing
• Transportation (coming soon)
• Young Adult Transitional Insurance/YATI

Training Opportunities

• Addiction Education
• E-Cigarettes
• Human Trafficking (SOAR)
• Motivational Interviewing - Post-Secondary Planning for Supportive Adults
• Young Adult Program Onboarding CH120011 (for DCS Specialists)
• Youth Thrive trainings upcoming for November and December 2023, sign up below:
  - November 2023
  - December 2023
  (Youth Thrive is both a research-informed Framework on youth well-being and an action-oriented Initiative, based on the framework, that is designed to better support healthy development and promote well-being for youth. For more information on enrolling for a YT training, email us at [email protected])