How do some states hire, train, and retain their hotline intake screeners? (APPENDIX)
This document provides key themes and lessons learned from five states on practices involving intake screeners in their child welfare systems.
Questions from the field
What is New Jersey’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services intervention?
Mobile Response and Stabilization Services provides immediate support to stabilize children in crisis and keep them safe at home.
How do investigation, removal and placement cause trauma for children?
Investigation, removal, and placement decisions and actions must consider the traumatic effects of those processes on the child.
Which home visiting programs are effective in reducing child maltreatment?
This information packet features five home visiting program models that have been found to be effective in reducing child maltreatment.
How can investigation, removal, and placement processes be more trauma-informed?
This strategy brief describes ways to integrate trauma-informed practice into all decision points in the child protection process.
Why should child protection agencies become trauma-informed?
Youth in foster care have high rates of trauma exposure. A trauma-informed child protection system can mitigate trauma’s adverse effects.
What do we know about birth match?
A few jurisdictions are using birth match as a data-based strategy to predict future risk and harm of infants, but ethical tensions exist.
How can an effective border agreement support timely placement with kin?
This bright spot describes how Georgia and Alabama created a border agreement to expedite placement of children with kin across state lines.
What is the impact of substance abuse on child welfare?
This list provides key resources for leaders to consider when evaluating the impact of substance abuse on child welfare.
How did Texas decrease caseworker turnover and stabilize its workforce?
This brief summarizes Texas Department of Family and Protective Services strategies to decrease caseworker turnover in just over one year.