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.
Birth family engagement
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.
Study of parent legal representation in New York City
Team-based parent legal representation reunifies children with their birth family earlier and in higher numbers.
How can we prioritize constituent voice and choice to transform foster care?
Families involved with child welfare systems can offer critical insights and feedback. Learn to design systems driven by their expertise.
Child and Family Services (CFS) Practice Model: A Safe and Permanent Family for Every Youth
This practice model outlines strategies and interventions that advance Casey Family Programs’ focus on permanency for youth.
How can birth and foster parent partnerships help families reunify?
Learn how a foster parent and parent partner worked together to wrap supports around a birth mother so she could reunify with her child.
What are the four tiers of authentic family engagement?
This short video describes how child welfare agencies can operationalize the four tiers of family engagement.
Why is it important to recognize that all families have strengths and all families need support?
These brief videos talk about why it is important to recognize the strengths within each family.
Why should we bring a racial equity lens to our work with children and families?
Dr. Joia Crear-Perry explores issues of race, maternal and child health disparities, and how we can address bias in our work with families.
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.