How can child welfare systems support families in rural communities?
Explore some key strategies that child welfare agencies can engage in when working with families that live in rural or tribal communities.
Data resources
How do some child protection agencies provide voluntary services?
This overview summarizes the work of jurisdictions that provide voluntary child welfare services that aim to strengthen 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.
How did Cradle to Crayons adapt the Safe Babies Court Team™ approach in Maricopa County, Arizona?
Explore how Maricopa County’s judicial and child welfare systems use the Cradle to Crayons approach to improve safety and reunification.
How did Arizona safely reduce its investigation backlog?
This strategy brief outlines how Arizona engaged in an intensive, multi-pronged strategy to reduce its investigation backlog.
How is Nebraska’s Community Opportunity Map increasing access to and use of timely, high-quality data at the local level?
Learn how Nebraska’s local, state, and national partners collaborated to enhance the use and availability of community-level data.
Heartland Rapid Permanency Reviews
This report presents compelling data that supports Heartland for Children’s success in achieving permanency for youth receiving RPRs.
What are some examples of real-time information sharing between child protection and law enforcement?
Learn how formal information-sharing agreements between child protection and law enforcement agencies help keep children safe.
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
This brief provides background on CAPTA, which provides grants to states to support prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
How did Virginia safely reduce the number of children in congregate care?
This strategy brief describes the key strategies and lessons learned that Virginia employed to reduce reliance on congregate care.
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.
Building the bridge
A study of high service users among youth in foster care in Tennessee and Florida using linked Medicaid and child welfare data.
