Capacity Building for Foster Care Organizations (CB4FC)
Organization
Planned Parenthood of New York City
Project Team
Lisa Colarossi, PhD, LCSW, Principle Investigator
Randa Dean, MPH, Project Director
Laura Negin, LMSW, Research Associate
Alex Stevens, MPH, Project Assistant
Project Summary
Planned Parenthood of New York City’s Capacity Building for Foster Care Organizations (CB4FC) is a systemic intervention to create policy change, provide professional development, and enhance physical environments with materials to promote youth sexual and reproductive health. Key innovative characteristics involve multilevel interventions that are intended to increase organizational support for and professional ability to communicate with foster youth about sexual health and facilitate access to care in a consistent way over time.