What impacts placement stability?
Explore the importance of placement stability for youth in care and the factors that can affect it.
Best practices in care
How can individuals with direct experience of child welfare help to reform the system?
Learn findings from a national survey in which three stakeholder groups voiced the systemic challenges faced by child welfare.
How can child welfare systems apply the principles of the Indian Child Welfare Act as the “gold standard” for all children?
Explore why four principles of the Indian Child Welfare Act should form the basis of child welfare practice for all agencies.
What are some effective strategies for older youth adoption?
Learn about some of the strategies that are effective in securing permanent adoptions among older youth.
Are there parallels between hiring and child protection processes that can help reduce bias and narrow child welfare’s front door?
This brief examines the parallels that exist between strategies for hiring staff and decision-making processes in child protection.
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 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 child welfare leaders safely decrease investigation backlogs?
Learn how several agencies successfully reduced backlogs that resulted from overdue child protective services investigations.
What do child welfare leaders need to know about supporting families when caregivers are facing immigration-enforced detention or deportation?
Learn about the impact of immigration enforcement on families and find resources for supporting families in this situation.
How do initial calls and icebreakers support shared parenting?
Learn how Louisiana implemented Initial Calls and Icebreakers to build trust between birth and foster parents and promote shared parenting.
From Data to Practice: The Impact of Placement with Family on Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being
This report confirms kinship care as a preferred option for children when they cannot stay with their biological parents.
