great guide for foster youth and medication

 

Below is a link in which you can download a workbook/guide for foster youth taking or considering taking medication.

 

Jennifer Hubbard

 

Adolescent Outreach Worker

Cape Ann/Lynn DCF

978-825-3918

 

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Youth Guide on Psychotropic Medications

 

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), in collaboration across many agencies including SAMHSA, has created a Youth Guide on Psychotropic Medications and it is now officially “live.”  You can download the Guide at the following web address:

 

http://www.nrcyd.ou.edu/psych-med-youth-guide

 

As indicated on the National Resource Center for Youth Development website, this new guide —written specifically for youth in foster care with input from youth and professionals— looks at ways to handle powerful feelings and behaviors and make healthy choices. Understanding how psychotropic medication can help and what other options are available can be challenging. This guide can help you decide what’s best. Making Healthy Choices includes useful information, questions to ask, worksheets, and tips on:

·                 Recognizing you need help

·                 Knowing your rights about your health and who can help you make decisions

·                 Considering your options, including helpful approaches other than medication

·                 Making decisions about how best to stay healthy

·                 Maintaining treatment (taking medication safely and continuing or stopping treatment after leaving foster care)

 

A Spanish version is also being completed and should be posted by the early Fall.