How can Plans of Safe Care help infants and families affected by prenatal substance exposure?
Learn about strategies for implementing Plans of Safe Care for infants with prenatal substance exposure.
Prevention
Can reductions in child poverty impact involvement with child protective services?
Learn from research that explores how policies that reduce child poverty would result in lower involvement with child protective services.
The effects of child poverty reductions on child protective services involvement
How would reducing child poverty affect referrals to CPS and foster care placements? Would it reduce racial disproportionality? Learn more.
What keeps community-based organizations from contracting with child and family services agencies, and what can be done about it?
Explore how agencies serving children and families can reduce barriers to contracting with small community-based organizations.
Thriving Families, Safer Children, Supportive Communities
Learn how communities are engaging effectively with lived experience, addressing the system and investing in families.
How are states building community-based pathways to prevention services through Family First?
Learn how three jurisdictions are leveraging the Family First Prevention Services Act to serve families through community pathways.
Family First Prevention Services Act
This law provides opportunities for states and tribes to better serve children and families by preventing the need for foster care and supporting better outcomes for children in care. Explore these resources to learn more.
Marking five years of the Family First Prevention Services Act
Casey Family Programs has supported states and tribes in their conceptualization, development and implementation of Family First plans.
Investing in Equity: Sustaining hope for children and families
Investing in families means strengthening them, not separating them unnecessarily. Explore our signature report to learn more.
Are home visiting programs effective in reducing child maltreatment?
Learn about home visiting models that are effective in reducing child maltreatment.