YAP Resources for Professionals
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
- Language Interpreting/Translation
- Transitional Housing (coming soon)
- Transportation (coming soon)
- Young Adult Transitional Insurance/YATI
