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Explore best strategies for recruiting and retaining tribal foster families to help American Indian and Alaska Native children thrive in their culture.
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What is the impact of substance abuse on child welfare?
This list provides key resources for leaders to consider when evaluating the impact of substance abuse on child welfare.
Can you share a summary of child welfare consent decrees?
This document provides information on which jurisdictions are operating under a consent decree, which are pending, and which have exited.
How can we select the right tool to help us better assess children’s safety, permanency, and well-being needs?
This information packet helps in selecting and implementing child screening and assessment tools to inform case decision-making.
The Community Opportunity Map
This interactive tool highlights the aspects of communities associated with safe children and strong families. Learn more about yours.
Can you tell us about a few agencies that have systems of care?
The system of care approach was developed to better serve children with serious mental health conditions. Learn more about them.
What safety and risk assessment tools are used in tribal child welfare?
This information packet provides an overview of the tools tribal child welfare agencies use to assess safety of the children in their care.
What are some examples of evidence-informed practices to keep children safe and promote permanency?
This packet provides information about evidence-informed programs that aim to keep children safe and families together.
What are the elements of an effective hotline system?
Hotline systems provide the first contact between the public and the child protection agency; this strategy brief outlines key elements.
What are the outcomes for youth placed in congregate care settings?
This information packet provides an overview of congregate care use in child welfare, research about youth outcomes and selected resources.
How do jurisdictions ensure that youth in care receive the academic credits they have earned when they move?
This information packet provides guidance on how to help youth in foster care keep their academic credits when they have to change schools.
How do we move past crisis mode and develop policies to help our agency thrive?
Preventing crisis demands swift action followed by policy creation informed by data analysis, research evidence and workload management.
Are there good examples of how child welfare agencies are collaborating with law enforcement?
One of the most important partnerships child welfare agencies can build is a meaningful collaboration with their police departments.
Can you share some resources about best practices in juvenile court caseloads and dependency court timeliness?
The courts play an essential role in keeping children safe and in promoting timely permanency through effective and timely hearings.
What is Ohio START (Sobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma)?
Learn about Ohio’s Sobriety, Treament and Reducing Trauma intervention to address the opioid epidemic.
How have states implemented parental rights restoration and reinstatement?
Parental rights restoration is an option for some youth when parents have addressed the issues that led to the termination of their rights.
What are preliminary building blocks to strengthen quality supervision?
Investing in supervisory quality can help an agency protect itself from high turnover; this resource list provides guidance.
What are the benefits of family visitation for crossover youth?
This resource list provides guidance about family visitation for youth involved in both child welfare and juvenile justice.
Is there an effective policy framework for oversight and monitoring of the use of psychotropic medication by youth in out-of-home care?
Given the high rate of psychotropic medication use by youth in out-of-home care, it is vital to establish effective oversight plans.
Guardianship Assistance Policy and Implementation: A National Analysis of Federal and State Policies and Programs
Interviews with state guardianship experts and a policy analysis reveal variations in state subsidy rates and strategies for effective use of guardianship as a permanency option.