How does the Parents for Parents program help parents reunify?
The Parents for Parents program matches parents who have been reunified with those newly involved with child welfare to provide support and guidance.
Birth family engagement
Single father uses experience to help other parents
Corey Best overcame personal challenges to become an advocate for birth parent and family engagement.
Timely Permanency through Reunification: Breakthrough Series Collaborative
This report describes the Timely Permanency through Reunification Breakthrough Series Collaborative process. It highlights promising practices and outcomes.
Strategies to Increase Birth Parent Engagement
This report reviews strategies that increase birth parent engagement with child welfare services and that develop effective child welfare partnerships.
Getting to Scale: The Elusive Goal
The Magnolia Place Community Initiative improves the community by creating a safe and supportive environment for the neighborhood’s children.
Foster Care Redesign in Duval and Alachua Counties: An Implementation Assessment and Research Chronicle
This assessment looks at how two counties shifted from emphasizing foster care as a first option to offering family preservation services.
Family reconciliation remains vital: Dr. William C. Bell’s talk at the D.A.D.S. banquet
President and CEO Dr. William C. Bell honors fatherhood at a banquet hosted by Divine Alternatives for Dads Services.
Evaluation of a Parent Education Program in Louisiana: The Nurturing Parenting Program for Infants, Toddlers and Pre-School Children
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Nurturing Parenting Program for infants, toddlers and pre-school children.
Child Protective Services Reintegration Project: Permanency Outcomes for Youth with Complex Mental Health Needs
The CPS Reintegration Project provides an extensive network of services to caregivers of youth in foster care who have at least one DSM-IV diagnosis.