How can pre-petition legal representation help strengthen families and keep them together?
Preventive legal representation is an effective upstream intervention that can help families keep children safely at home.
Resource allocation
What do we know about family resource centers? (APPENDIX)
Explore a summary of research on the outcomes and effectiveness of family resource centers around the country.
How can child protection agencies use telehealth to increase service access for children and families?
Explore how telehealth can give children and families involved in child welfare access to essential physical and behavioral health services.
What do we know about remote court hearings?
Explore some potential benefits and challenges of remote family court hearings, as well as resources for effectively conducting them.
State Data
Explore data about state approaches, children in care, and how money is invested in foster care vs. preventive and permanency services.
How can the child welfare system help youth and families access needed technology?
Learn about resources to help connect youth in foster care and their families with needed technology.
How are child welfare systems using flexible funds to support families and prevent the need for foster care?
Learn how using economic and concrete support strategies to address basic needs can support families and help prevent family separation.
How has Texas advanced a public health approach to the prevention of abuse and neglect?
Learn how Texas invested in primary and secondary prevention programs to prevent child maltreatment using a public health framework.
Can Medicaid be leveraged as a sustainable source of prevention funding for family resource centers?
Learn how San Francisco uses Medicaid Administrative Activities (MAA) as a federal funding source to support its family resource centers.
How can youth peer support be funded through Medicaid?
Learn how Medicaid can be a key funding source for peer support services for youth in foster care.
