How is the practice of hidden foster care inconsistent with federal policy and harmful to children and families?
Learn how the practice of hidden foster care practice can cause harm to families and why it should be avoided.
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Learn how the practice of hidden foster care practice can cause harm to families and why it should be avoided.
Learn about strategies for implementing Plans of Safe Care for infants with prenatal substance exposure.
Explore four principles that child welfare agencies should consider as they work to end the need for group placement settings.
Explore three key principles to learn how child protection agencies can make placing children with kin caregivers a universal practice.
Learn about the key elements of successful parent partner programs that offer support, guidance, and hope to birth parents.
Learn from a study that found lower reported levels of social support among both LGBTQ+ and Black youth who are alumni of foster care.
Learn how Medicaid can be a key funding source for peer support services for youth in foster care.
Learn about the strategies that strengthen the co-parenting relationship between parents and caregivers.
Learn how Connecticut integrated trauma-informed practices throughout its child welfare system with an innovative approach.
In this Q&A, leaders from Bravehearts and The Children’s Village describe their partnership in lifting up voices of young people in care.
Learn about the key elements of kinship navigator programs, jurisdictional examples, and evaluation outcomes.
Learn how several jurisdictions are implementing strategies to recruit and retain a strong child welfare workforce.
Learn about child welfare workforce turnover, its challenges to child protection agencies, and the impact it has on children and families.
Learn about program development and funding stream recommendations from kinship navigator program experts in several states.
Learn about the impact of substance use disorder on families, and some strategies and policies to improve outcomes for those affected by it.
Learn from research that explores how policies that reduce child poverty would result in lower involvement with child protective services.
Learn lessons from a research report that are adaptable to child welfare on how to successfully engage people with lived experience.
Explore strategies, jurisdictional examples, and resources for making progress in reducing unplanned teen pregnancy among youth in care.
Explore how agencies serving children and families can reduce barriers to contracting with small community-based organizations.
Learn from an analysis that evaluated the accuracy of decisions of a central hotline to screen in or screen out reports that come in.