Shifting Resources to Achieve Better Outcomes for Children and Families
As a guide to work in finance reform and evidence-based practice, this report describes new ways that smart investments are being applied in child welfare.
Prevention
Making children a priority: the 2012 CWLA conference
President and CEO Dr. William C. Bell delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) national conference.
Getting to Scale: The Elusive Goal
The Magnolia Place Community Initiative improves the community by creating a safe and supportive environment for the neighborhood’s children.
Foster Care Redesign in Duval and Alachua Counties: An Implementation Assessment and Research Chronicle
This assessment looks at how two counties shifted from emphasizing foster care as a first option to offering family preservation services.
The Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program: Background and Context
This paper describes the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, including an overview of the program’s funding and research on its effectiveness.
Prevention Initiative Demonstration Project
This report illustrates changes under way in the Prevention Initiative Demonstration Project, aimed at reducing child abuse and neglect in LA County.
Failure is not an option: Dr. William C. Bell speaks to the Breakfast Group, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization of professional African American men
Dr. William C. Bell speaks to the Breakfast Group, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization of African American professional men.
The Need to Reauthorize and Expand Title IV-E Waivers: Ensuring Safe, Nurturing and Permanent Families for Children
This white paper examines how smart investments at the federal level have positively impacted the child welfare system in five states.
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act: Improving Lives and Opportunities for Children in Foster Care
This document explains how the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act benefits young people in care.
It is time to shift the child-as-client paradigm
Dr. William C. Bell addresses Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Sciences.