Why should child protection agencies adopt a kin-first approach?
Understand the importance of a kin-first culture and strategies for child protection agencies to prioritize and support kinship caregivers.
Social worker/direct practitioner
From Data to Practice: Moving Youth to Family – Level of Need and the Impact on Legal and Relational Permanency
This report explores permanency outcomes for youth who, when referred to Casey services, were not residing with a family member.
How can jurisdictions ensure consistent health care access for children and youth in foster care?
States can ensure consistent health care coverage for children in foster care by implementing continuous eligibility for Medcaid or CHIP.
What are promising practices for using Medicaid State Plan Amendments and waivers to address the needs of children and youth in foster care?
Learn how the use of Medicaid state plan amendments and waivers can support children in foster care.
How can behavioral science be used to improve decision-making in child welfare?
The first in a series, this strategy brief explores how behavioral science offers insights into critical decision points in child welfare.
How can behavioral science be used to recruit foster and adoptive families?
Behavioral science offers ideas to improve the recruitment process for foster and adoptive parents in child welfare.
How can behavioral science be used to improve the assessment of risk and safety?
Behavioral science offers insights into the hotline, screening, and investigation and assessment decision points in child welfare.
How can behavioral science be used to promote successful placements?
Behavioral science can inform system design to improve placement decisions and placement stability for children in foster care.
How can child protection agencies partner with early care and education to improve outcomes for children?
Learn how strategic partnerships between child protection agencies and early care and education can benefit children and families.
How did Washington, D.C., develop its approach to meaningful continuous quality improvement?
Learn how D.C.’s child protection agency implemented a CQI system that focuses on family support and on preventing child removal.
Taking a Closer Look at the Reduction in Entry Rates for Children in Sacramento County with an Emphasis on African American Children
Sacramento County used successful strategies over multiple years to reduce placement rates of African American children.
What can child protection agencies learn from Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital’s response to infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?
Learn how the Eat, Sleep, Console model promotes healthy parent-child attachment, destigmatizes NAS, and prevents unnecessary interventions.
