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¡Soy Unica!
¡Soy Latina! helps Hispanic girls ages 9 to 14 build and
enhance their self-esteem, mental health, and
decision-making and assertiveness skills and to avoid the
harmful consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug
use.
Sponsored by the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration and the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, provides facts on
underage drinking and effective ways to avoid alcohol using
language and a format that appeals to young people.
Too Smart To Start
A public education initiative that provides research-based
strategies and materials to professionals and volunteers at
the community level to help them conduct an underage alcohol
use prevention initiative. The materials are designed to
educate 9- to 13-year-olds about the harms of alcohol use
and to support parents and caregivers as they participate in
their children’s activities.
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The
Rights for Youth in Foster
Care may be different in each state. Ask your caseworker about
your rights in your state. If your rights are being violated,
contact a caseworker, attorney, or foster parent
immediately.
As a youth in foster care, you
have the right:*
- To know your rights
in foster care, to receive a list of those rights in written
form and to know how to file a complaint if your rights are
being violated.
- To be told why you came
into foster care and why you are still in foster care.
- To live in a safe and
healthy home where treated with respect, with your own
place to store your things and where you receive healthy
food, adequate clothing, and appropriate personal hygiene
products.
- To have personal
belongings secure and transported with you.
- To have caring foster
parents or caretakers who are properly trained, have
received background checks and screenings, and who receive
adequate support form the Agency to help ensure stability in
the placement.
- To be placed in a home
with your brothers and sisters when possible, and to
maintain regular and unrestricted contact with siblings when
separated (including help with transportation), unless
ordered by the court.
- To attend school and
participate in extracurricular, cultural, and personal
enrichment activities.
- To have your privacy
protected. You can expect confidentiality from the
adults involved in your case.
- To be protected from
physical, sexual, emotional or other abuse, including
corporal punishment (hitting or spanking as a punishment)
and being locked in a room (unless you are in a treatment
facility).
- To receive medical,
dental, vision and mental health services.
- To refuse to take
medications, vitamins or herbs, unless prescribed by a
doctor.
- To have an immediate
visit after placement and have regular visits ongoing
with biological parents and other relatives unless
prohibited by court or unless you don’t want to.
- To make and receive
confidential telephone calls and send and receive
unopened mail, unless prohibited by court order.
- To have regular contact from
and unrestricted access to social workers, attorneys, and
advocates and to be allowed to have confidential
conversations with such individuals.
- To be told by your social
worker and your attorney about any changes in your case
plan or placement and receive honest information about
the decisions the Agency is making that affect your life.
- To attend
religious services and
activities
of your choice and to preserve your cultural heritage. If
possible your placement should be with a family member or
someone from your community with similar religion, culture
and/or heritage.
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