How Oregon DHS engages community in Continuous Quality Improvement
This map tool helps public agencies, like Oregon DHS, engage their constituents to tailor services to the needs of individual communities.
Youth outcomes
How does New Jersey’s system of care approach support families involved with child welfare?
Explore how New Jersey uses a system of care approach to support children with behavioral health needs and their families.
What strategies support effective implementation of the system of care approach?
Learn lessons from implementing a system of care approach across systems to improve behavioral health outcomes for children.
How can the system of care approach improve outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare?
Understand how the system of care approach brings together an array of partners to support children’s behavioral health needs.
How do investigation, removal, and placement cause trauma for families?
Actions around child protection investigations, removals, and placements have traumatic effects on children, parents, and caregivers.
What can we learn from the voices of those involved in kinship care?
Understand the key findings, based on interviews with lived experts, about strengthening kinship care in the child welfare system.
Can trauma symptoms predict placement instability?
Learn from a study that examines the relationship between trauma screening and the likelihood of multiple foster care placements.
Why is it imperative to minimize children’s time away from family?
Learn why minimizing time children spend away from family and implementing timely permanency strategies are critical to child well-being.
Creating healing pathways for children with behavioral health needs
This report provides key considerations for jurisdictions grappling with the intersection of behavioral health needs and child welfare system.
How the Pelican Center used the Community Opportunity Map to support students in Louisiana
This map tool helps public-private partnerships create precise, local strategic plans to invest in hope and improve education for youth.