Why should we re-envision the child welfare system using a public health lens?
Dr. Deborah Daro, senior research fellow at Chapin Hall, outlines the goals of a public health approach to child welfare.
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Can child maltreatment be prevented through universal home visiting for newborns and their families?
Scott Hippert describes how Family Connects approaches prevention by offering communitywide home visits to support families with newborns.
How are Ohio Children’s Hospitals identifying sentinel injuries to reduce child fatalities?
Dr. Jonathan Thackeray and Carrie Baker share collaborative efforts to improve pediatric practices and prevent recurrent child maltreatment.
Using In Home Services to prevent foster care in Austin, Texas
This report chronicles the story of Austin’s In Home Services program. It is a story of courage, commitment, resilience and a lot of hard work.
What impacts placement stability?
This issue brief explores the importance of placement stability and the challenges that prevent it.
What are some examples of effective family search and engagement?
This strategy brief discusses the core elements of effective family search and engagement and highlights a number of effective approaches.
How can we improve placement stability for children in foster care?
This strategy brief highlights promising approaches that have demonstrated a positive impact in improving placement stability.
What are some considerations for using placement matching tools?
This issue brief describes tools to help child protection agencies identify the right first placement and improve placement stability.
How did Virginia safely reduce the number of children in congregate care?
This strategy brief describes the key strategies and lessons learned that Virginia employed to reduce reliance on congregate care.
How can states and tribes provide feedback on model licensing standards for family foster homes?
This webinar highlights the opportunity to submit comments on FFPSA’s National Model Family Foster Home Licensing Standards.
How did New Jersey safely reduce the number of children in congregate care?
All children deserve to grow up in a home-based setting. Learn how New Jersey decreased congregate care usage by 45 percent.
What are some effective strategies for achieving permanency?
All children deserve to grow up in a loving, permanent family. This brief identifies strategies to achieve timely permanency.
What steps can our agency take to become more trauma informed?
This brief describes strategies for creating a trauma-informed agency across all levels, related tools, and promising results in states.
What is NYC’s Safe Sleep Initiative?
Since 2015, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), in strong partnership with five other city agencies, has implemented a multipronged approach to reduce sleep-related fatalities. This brief highlights the history, core elements and outcomes of this work, and […]
How did NYC implement the Safe Sleep Initiative to reduce child fatalities?
NYC found that a combination of community engagement and parent education was effective in reducing sleep-related infant deaths.
How should we handle hotline calls for our most vulnerable – infants and toddlers?
This strategy brief outlines strategies for how CPS agencies can screen-in reports of infants and toddlers in a way that keeps them safe.
How does the Parents for Parents program help parents reunify?
The Parents for Parents program matches parents who have been reunifed with those newly involved with child welfare to provide support and guidance.
How did Hawaii gain staff and stakeholder support when centralizing its hotline?
Hawaii employed various strategies to earn buy-in from staff and community stakeholders during its transition to a centralized hotline.
Our Work in Indian Child Welfare
Casey Family Programs has a long history of working with American Indian and Alaska Native tribes to improve the well-being of their children and families. This brochure describes our work.
What are some of the foundational elements, strategies and opportunities for child welfare financing?
This three-part webinar series demystifies child welfare funding streams and builds foundational understanding of child welfare financing.