How can Medicaid-funded services support children, youth, and families involved with child protection?
This brief describes Medicaid financing and covered services for children involved with a child protection agency.
Safely reduce the need for foster care across the nation
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 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.
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.
How can child protection agencies support families and children who lack lawful immigration status?
This brief discusses challenges that agencies may face serving families that lack lawful immigration status, and strategies to address them.
Can we re-envision residential care?
These brief videos describe what it would take to re-envision residential care so that children grow up where they belong: with family.
What leadership strategies have advanced transformation in the District of Columbia?
Director Donald describes her leadership strategies, which have transformed the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency.
How is New Hampshire building a 21st century child strengthening and family well-being system?
In this Q&A, Chris Tappan details how New Hampshire’s child and family serving systems are collaborating for transformation.
How does the Safe Babies Court Team™ approach improve outcomes for infants and toddlers?
Learn how Safe Babies Court Teams improve collaboration between the courts and child welfare to minimize trauma for young children.
How does Inwood House meet the needs of expectant and parenting youth in foster care?
Learn how Inwood House at the Children’s Village developed integrated prevention and community-based services for young parents in foster care.
