What are some examples of real-time information sharing between child protection and law enforcement?
Learn how formal information-sharing agreements between child protection and law enforcement agencies help keep children safe.
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How can family-based residential treatment programs help reduce substance use and improve child welfare outcomes?
Learn how family-based residential treatment for parental substance use disorder can keep families together and improve outcomes.
What do we know about the impact of homelessness and housing instability on child welfare-involved families?
Learn about the relationship between housing instability and child well-being, and how child welfare agencies can help homeless families.
How can supportive housing help improve outcomes for families in the child welfare system?
Explore key components of supportive housing programs and evidence of their effectiveness with child welfare-involved families.
What do we know about the return on investment in preventing child maltreatment?
This evidence brief explores the tremendous costs of child abuse and neglect and the cost-benefits of investing in prevention programs.
What are some ways San Francisco’s Family Resource Centers strengthen families and protect children?
These brief videos describe how family resource centers in San Francisco offer concrete supports to families and build protective factors.
How has San Francisco taken a collaborative approach to keeping children safe?
These brief videos describe the importance of collaboration across sectors to keep children safe and meet community needs.
How does high-quality legal representation for parents support better outcomes?
Research highlights how quality legal representation for parents can improve permanency for children and reduce time in foster care.
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 does the New York Foundling’s crisis nursery prevent maltreatment and entry into foster care?
New York City’s crisis nursery offers support to stabilize families in crisis with a goal to decrease the risk of child maltreatment.
How was Safety Organized Practice implemented in San Diego County?
San Diego County’s Safety-Organized Practice model builds partnerships between families and child welfare using a strengths-based approach.
Do place-based programs, such as Family Resource Centers, reduce risk of child maltreatment and entry into foster care?
Family Resource Centers offer community-based family support to prevent child abuse and neglect. Explore key elements and effectiveness.
Do place-based programs, such as Family Resource Centers, reduce risk of child maltreatment and entry into foster care? (APPENDIX)
Family Resource Centers offer community-based family support to prevent child abuse and neglect. Review a brief summary of current research.
Prevention
The current child welfare system is rooted in investigation as a response to children who already may have experienced abuse or neglect. In this construct, safety is defined as keeping children safe from further maltreatment after they experience harm. However, […]
Constituency Engagement
No one understands the intricacies of the child welfare system better than those directly involved with it. Child welfare system constituents — birth parents, kinship caregivers, foster parents, and alumni of foster care — are well positioned to offer unique […]
Substance Use Disorder
Raising safe and healthy children can be difficult for any parent, but parents affected by substance use disorders can find it especially challenging to meet the basic physical, psychological, and emotional needs of their children. And often, the devastation of […]
How do parent partner programs instill hope and support prevention and reunification? (APPENDIX)
This appendix provides a brief summary of the research on individual parent partner programs.
How do parent partner programs instill hope and support prevention and reunification?
Parent partners can guide parents through a difficult time and instill hope. Learn more about parent partner programs in this issue brief.
How does Native American Connections’ Patina Wellness Center help parents in treatment and recovery stay with their children?
Learn how a residential treatment center is helping tribal parents recover from substance use disorder with their children.
How did Connecticut expand Family-Based Recovery using a social impact bond?
Pay for Success expands a recovery program that allows children to remain at home with parents undergoing treatment for substance use.