Confidential Youth Advocacy Reference Guide
This quick-reference guide is meant to provide an overview of confidential youth advocacy, including emerging and best practices, for confidential advocates in Oregon. It is meant to supplement existing advocacy knowledge, training, and resources (like Oregon SATF's Statewide Sexual Assault Advocate Training Manual) to provide more depth on advocacy services with people under the age of 18 specifically.
HOW CAN THIS TOOLKIT HELP YOU?
This is a quick reference resource, not meant to be read cover to cover (although that is welcome too). Whenever you are providing confidential advocacy services to young people, this can serve as a resource for clarifying specific laws, rights, resources, etc.
We have included an index at the end of the guide for quickly finding content by topic area (ex. Mandatory Reporting . . . . 21-23, 91, 94). This resource is part of a larger project to support confidential youth advocacy services in Oregon. Some other resources that may be helpful to you include:
Oregon SATF's Mandatory Reporting + Confidential Advocacy Partnership Guidedesigned to support youth serving institutions (like schools) to partner with confidential resources to improve outcomes for young people who have experienced violence or abuse.
Oregon SATF's Building and Strengthening Partnerships to Better Support Youth Health and Safety Webinar Series which includes two webinars one focused on building partnerships between DVSA and Child Abuse Orgs, and one on building partnerships more broadly between Youth Serving Settings and DVSA services. These are available in English, with ASL Interpretation, and with Spanish subtitles.
WHO CAN USE THIS TOOLKIT?
People providing confidential advocacy services to youth throughout Oregon. This resource is meant to provide an overview of confidential youth advocacy, including emerging and best practices. It is meant to supplement existing advocacy knowledge, training, and resources (like Oregon SATF's Statewide Sexual Assault Advocate Training Manual) to provide more depth on advocacy services with people under the age of 18 specifically. If you are not an advocate or have not received any advocacy training, we recommend you start with basic advocacy resources to help contextualize this resource.
IMPORTANT NOTE: LEGAL DISCLAIMER
The information in this guide is not offered as, not intended as, and does not constitute legal advice. It is provided for informational purposes only. Much of the information was pulled directly from experts across Oregon and compiled into this guide. None of the information provided here should be considered a substitute for professional legal advice.
Acknowledgements
This guide pulls together resources from partners and stakeholders across Oregon implementing best practices to support young people, kids, and children, and help prevent violence and abuse. It would not have been made possible without the partnership, expertise, feedback, existing resources, and input from people and organizations across the state.
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This resource is a living document, meaning it is meant to change and improve over time. Not only do laws and policies change regularly, the experiences young people have and the systems they navigate shift over time. As things shift, we will do our best to update this resource. We also invite you to help us improve the resource.
Please feel welcome to send us feedback at taskforce@oregonsatf.org.
Additionally if there are edits/clarifications that need to be made, we welcome that feedback too. This resource is meant to support the people providing confidential advocacy services to youth in Oregon. The ongoing input from people doing this work, young people, and experts in the state is critical to ensuring this resource is useful. Thank you for taking the time to contribute!
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