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.
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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.
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.
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 Teams™ 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.
How does the Quality Parenting Initiative support healthy childhoods and co-parenting with birth families?
This Q&A explores strategies to ensure excellent parenting for children in foster care, and to support relationships with birth parents.
How can child welfare agencies effectively support LGBTQ+ youth in care?
Youth who identify as LGBTQ+ are more likely to enter foster care. Learn about jurisdictional efforts to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ youth.
How does high-quality early care and education improve safety, permanency, and well-being?
Explore the benefits of early childhood education and the value of child welfare partnerships with early education programs.
How has Texas advanced a public health approach to the prevention of abuse and neglect?
Learn how Texas invested in primary and secondary prevention programs to prevent child maltreatment using a public health framework.
How do St. Anne’s programs for pregnant and parenting young mothers break the cycle of child abuse and neglect?
St. Anne’s in Los Angeles is meeting the needs of pregnant and parenting young mothers in foster care through a continuum of services.
How does Inwood House meet the needs of expectant and parenting youth in foster care?
Learn how Inwood House at the Children’s Village developed integrated prevention and community-based services for young parents in foster care.
How can fathers and other constituent leaders inform Family First and other system change efforts?
In this Q&A, Timothy Phipps describes the importance of involving parents, especially fathers, in designing the child welfare system.
How does Children’s Village reflect the components of a Qualified Residential Treatment Program?
Learn how a residential treatment program changed its business model, practice, and culture to better serve youth and families.
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.