Original Post from Children's Bureau Express:
For children and youth in foster care, having caring and supportive adults in their lives can significantly improve well-being and encourage positive youth development. These beneficial relationships are in part created through coregulation. Coregulation is when adults enact three types of support with youth: caring, consistent, and responsive relationships; cocreation of supportive environments; and intentional and developmentally informed day-to-day interactions.
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation within the Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a series of guides that define the different components of coregulation and how it can be applied to youth in foster care. The guides are intended for adults who regularly interact with youth in foster care.
There are four guides in the series (one each for caring adults, child welfare professionals, foster families, and kinship caregivers). Each guide provides information about what coregulation entails and why it is important, ways adults can foster coregulation in their relationships with youth, examples of conversations that support coregulation, and specific ways caring adults, child welfare professionals, foster families, and kinship caregivers can strengthen their capacity for coregulation.
Read the following guides to learn more about coregulation and how it can improve well-being and support the development of children and youth in foster care:
- Caring Adults Guide: How to Support Older Youth With Foster Care Experience Through Co-Regulation
- Child Welfare Professionals Guide: How to Support Older Youth With Foster Care Experience Through Co-Regulation
- Foster Families Guide: How to Support Older Youth With Foster Care Experience Through Co-Regulation
- Kinship Caregivers Guide: How to Support Older Youth With Foster Care Experience Through Co-Regulation
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