How can child welfare leaders safely decrease investigation backlogs?
Learn how several agencies successfully reduced backlogs that resulted from overdue child protective services investigations.
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How is Family Connects providing every infant in Travis County, Texas, a healthy start to life?
Home visiting programs for new parents offer a universal approach to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Explore Austin’s model.
The Community Opportunity Map
This interactive tool highlights the aspects of communities associated with safe children and strong families. Learn more about yours.
How is New Hampshire building a 21st century child strengthening and family well-being system?
In this Q&A, Chris Tappan details how New Hampshire’s child and family serving systems are collaborating for transformation.
What do child welfare leaders need to know about supporting families when caregivers are facing immigration-enforced detainment or deportation?
Learn about the impact of immigration enforcement on families and find resources for supporting families in this situation.
How do initial calls and icebreakers support shared parenting?
Learn how Louisiana implemented Initial Calls and Icebreakers to build trust between birth and foster parents and promote shared parenting.
How can pre-petition legal representation help strengthen families and keep them together?
Preventive legal representation programs offer an opportunity to invest in counsel that helps families keep children safely at home.
How can child welfare leaders advance a 21st century child well-being system?
In this Q&A, Frank Alexander describes his vision for a transformed 21st century child welfare system in Boulder County and nationwide.
Title IV-E legal representation webinars
Casey Family Programs hosts a series of webinars focused on Title IV-E federal reimbursement for parent and child legal representation.
How is Nebraska’s Community Opportunity Map increasing access to and use of timely, high-quality data at the local level?
Learn how Nebraska’s local, state, and national partners collaborated to enhance the use and availability of community-level data.
Heartland Rapid Permanency Reviews
This report presents compelling data that supports Heartland for Children’s success in achieving permanency for youth receiving RPRs.
How does Sweetser’s residential treatment approach promote family engagement and inclusion in Maine?
Learn how a residential treatment program for children with behavioral health challenges shifted its practice toward parent engagement.
How can Youth Support Partners create stronger engagement with child welfare-involved youth?
Explore how Youth Support Partners provide peer support and influence child welfare policy and practice in Allegheny County, Pa.
How do Safe Babies Court Team™ improve outcomes for infants and toddlers?
Learn how Safe Babies Court Teams improve collaboration between the courts and child welfare to minimize trauma for young children.
Quality Legal Representation
Quality legal representation of parents in child welfare proceedings has many benefits to families and the potential to reduce the need for foster care.
What is a population-based approach to child welfare?
A population-based approach to child welfare aligns all community stakeholders behind goals to prevent child maltreatment and keep famliies safely together.
How can child protection agencies deepen partnerships with birth parents to advance systems change?
In this Q&A, David Sanders is interviewed about how child welfare agencies can improve their partnerships with birth parents.
What is the Quality Parenting Initiative?
Learn how the Quality Parenting Initiative cultivates excellent parenting and supports caregivers to improve permanency for youth in care.
Kinship Care
Explore our Questions from the field resources to learn more about how to create a kin first agency.