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 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.
On The Pathway of Hope: 2019 Signature Report
What would the child welfare system look like if we could better support families before they are in crisis? Learn more in our 2019 signature report.
How does Native American Connections’ Patina Wellness Center help parents in treatment and recovery stay with their children?
Learn how a residential treatment center is helping tribal parents recover from substance use disorder with their children.
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.
How does Circles of Support help keep children safe at home?
Striving to keep children safe at home, Circles of Support combines evidence-informed interventions within a culturally relevant context.
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.
From Data to Practice: The Impact of Placement with Family on Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being
This report confirms kinship care as a preferred option for children when they cannot stay with their biological parents.
Using In Home Services to prevent foster care in Austin, Texas
This report chronicles the story of Austin’s In Home Services program. It is a story of courage, commitment, resilience and a lot of hard work.
How did New Jersey safely reduce the number of children in congregate care?
All children deserve to grow up in a home-based setting. Learn how New Jersey decreased congregate care usage by 45 percent.
