On March 19, 2013, OJJDP’s then-Acting Administrator Melodee Hanes delivered opening remarks at “Safe To Compete: Protecting Child Athletes From Sexual Abuse,” a 2-day summit sponsored by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) an ...

There is no other relationship with greater significance in our lives than those we have with our families—whether they are our birth or chosen families. They should serve as the anchor in our lives, as the lifeline to everything else we accomplish. As no ...

cjjr.georgetown.edu/pdfs/famengagement/FamilyEngagementPaper

Safety, Fairness, Stability: Repositioning Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare to Engage Families and Communities, a paper by Dr. Joan Pennell, Carol Shapiro, and Dr. Carol Spigner published by the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, provides an example of ...

www.ncsacw.samhsa.gov/files/SAFERR.pdf

This guidebook presents the SAFERR (Screening and Assessment for Family Engagement, Retention, and Recovery) model for helping staff of public and private agencies respond to families affected by substance use disorders. The SAFERR model and this guideboo ...

According to the NRC4Tribes, the only source for up to date and searchable Tribal Indian Child Welfare Act contact information is available through Ayazuta. Meaning "connect" in the Lakota Tribe language, Ayazuta was created to use technology as a means t ...

This technical assistance bulletin was designed to provide information, guidance, and aspirational practice recommendations to dependency courts and dependency court judges with regard to bringing children1 to court for hearings related to their own depen ...

www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/downloads/information_pa

Sibling Placement: The Importance of the Sibling Relationship for Children in Foster Care This NRCPFC Information Packet, written by Michelle Cohn, was recently updated by Lyn Ariyakulkan. It provides an overview of sibling placement issues; facts and sta ...

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Fostering Connections Act: Sibling Placement Provision Chart The National Conference of State Legislatures has put together a chart listing state legislation that contains provisions regarding sibling placement. The chart lists the state, the bill title ...

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In this article available on the YouthSuccessNYC website, youth author Kelly gives advice to foster parents on how to make foster youth feel accepted and welcomed into their homes. http://www.youthsuccessnyc.org/foster_parents/stories/Simple_Tips_for_Fost ...

Six Steps to Find a Family: A Practice Guide to Family Search and Engagement Family-Finding and Engagement is a structured model to build permanent, caring relationships for the youth, who otherwise would not have a permanent family, by helping adults ma ...

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For a complete manual and tools about information sharing between child welfare and education, please download Solving the Data Puzzle: A How To Guide Collecting and Sharing Information to Improve Educational Outcomes for Children in Out of-Home Care.

The purpose of these standards is to improve the quality of child welfare agency representation and uniformity of practice throughout the country. Many agency attorneys who read these standards may recognize their practice in this document. The standards ...

www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-170

Title IV-B of the Social Security Act is the primary source of federal funding designated for child welfare services that is available to states. In fiscal year 2012, Congress appropriated $730 million under Title IV-B. Although states augment these funds ...

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Stepping Up for Kids: What Government and Communities Should do to Support Kinship Families.Annie E. Casey Foundation. KIDS COUNT.2012

This document presents the strategic plan that will guide the upcoming year of the CIP Basic Grant. It includes the following: - A letter from the Louisiana Supreme Court requesting funding. - A letter of support from the Louisiana Dept. of Childre ...

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This new publication provides an introduction to the topic of LGBT parents as a resource in the child welfare system, followed by a discussion of strategies for recruiting and engaging LGBT resource families. It includes the following sections: Special Co ...

This new publication provides an introduction to the topic of LGBT parents as a resource in the child welfare system, followed by a discussion of strategies for recruiting and engaging LGBT resource families. It includes the following sections: Special Co ...

www.strengthofus.org

An online social community for teens and young adults to learn about mental health conditions, services and supports and handling the unique challenges and opportunities in transition-age years. Begin your trek into adulthood by checking out information ...

www.ctfalliance.org/onlinetraining.htm

The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds has launched an online training to support implementation of the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors Framework.  This curriculum includes materials on partnering with parents and a ...