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.
Workforce and organizational capacity
How do some states hire, train, and retain their hotline intake screeners?
This document provides key themes and lessons learned from five states on practices involving intake screeners in their child welfare systems.
How do some states hire, train, and retain their hotline intake screeners? (APPENDIX)
This document provides key themes and lessons learned from five states on practices involving intake screeners in their child welfare systems.
How can investigation, removal, and placement processes be more trauma-informed?
This strategy brief describes ways to integrate trauma-informed practice into all decision points in the child protection process.
Why should child protection agencies become trauma-informed?
Youth in foster care have high rates of trauma exposure. A trauma-informed child protection system can mitigate trauma’s adverse effects.
How did Texas decrease caseworker turnover and stabilize its workforce?
This brief summarizes Texas Department of Family and Protective Services strategies to decrease caseworker turnover in just over one year.
What are some considerations for designing effective supervisory training?
Effective supervision contributes directly to improved outcomes. This issue brief explores how to design an effective supervisory training.
What are preliminary building blocks to strengthen quality supervision?
Investing in supervisory quality can help an agency protect itself from high turnover; this resource list provides guidance.
What can you tell us about the Parent-Child Assistance Program?
This home visiting program in Washington state serves high-risk mothers who abuse alcohol and drugs during pregnancy.