Attorney Resources

• Legal Representation in Child Welfare Proceedings
• 10 Years of FJI: Resources Created to Achieve High Quality Legal Representation for Children and Parents
• Spotlight on State CWLS Champions – LOUISIANA!
• Overcoming assumptions: How to Facilitate Successful Multi-generational Collaboration
• Final Rule & Kin-Specific Foster Home Approval Standards: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Fostering the Future for American Children and Families
• Louisiana DCFS Strategic Plan
• A Sign of Greater Hardship to Come
• Practice Guidelines 2025
• The Importance of Healthy Workplaces for Young People with Systems Experience
• Predicting Maltreatment in Foster Homes: The Role of Child Welfare Agency Policies
• Foster Care Timing May Affect Children’s School Performance
• Child Welfare Intelligence? Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Child Protective Services Arena
• Promoting Reunification as a Kin Caregiver
• Experts Find Foster Youth Fare Better In College Than Once Thought— But Still Need More Support Than They Get
• Infographic: Connections Between the Court Improvement Program and the Child and Family Services Review
• InFOCUS: State Initiatives for Dual System Youth: A National Scan
• Louisiana DCFS Fiscal Year 2026 Business Plan
• State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
• Safe Haven Annual Report February 2025
• Kinship Legal Toolkit
• TPR Issue Spotter
• Catalog of Core Child Welfare Case Management Reports for Courts 2024
• Foster Care Education Outcomes: New Research Challenges the 3% Myth
• Put Down The Phone Month
• Using DNA to Reunify Families Separated by Disasters
• Everyone Plays a Role: Elevating Education for PK-12 Students in Foster Care  Through Lived Expertise, Practice and Policy National Working Group (NWG) Recorded Webinar
• National Family Unification Month
• LDH Launches Project M.O.M. With New Director, Website, and Detailed Roadmap
• Young People With Lived Experience in Foster Care Recommend Improvements to Mental Health Supports
• Keeping Children Safe with Families
• Human -Centered Justice For Court-Involved Children And Families
• Why Is It Imperative To Minimize Children’s Time Away From Family?
• Preventative Legal Advocacy for Youth Clients
• How the Pelican Center used the Community Opportunity Map to support students in Louisiana
• What Happens to Youth Aging Out of Foster Care?
• How Opportunity Passport Helped Young People in Foster Care in 2023
• Federal Update: Summary of New Federal Joint Guidance to Support Students in Foster Care
• 2024 National Data Toolkit
• Engaging Black 2SLGBTQIA+Youth in Advocacy
• Child Maltreatment
• QRTP Policy Brief: Staffing the Role of the ‘Qualified Individual’
• Child-Specific Recruitment For  Older Youth 
• Supporting America’s Children and Families Act
• Child Neglect, Inequity, & Poverty: Practice Innovations, Concrete Resources, and Justice
• Penalized for Their Prescriptions: Parents Using Legal Addiction Medications Face Ongoing Discrimination in the Child Welfare System
• Social Media and Children 2024 Legislation
• Partnering With Youth and Families: A Best Practices Guide for Youth Justice Stakeholders
• Child & Family Services Review Process
• NSCAW III Baseline Report (2017-2022): Child and Family Involvement with the Child Welfare System
• 2024 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS)
• Abuse of Youth Placed in Residential Facilities
• 2024 Report to Congress Progress Report: Federal Implementation of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
• Updated State-by-State Resources Help Families Understand Permanency Options
• The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations
• Students with Disabilities and Bullying: Top Five Things for Parents, Educators, and Students to Know
• A Prevention-Focused, Multisystem Framework to Help Families Meet Their Needs
• An Approach to Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting in Cases of Questionable Confessions
• Recognizing National Youth Justice Action Month
• The Legal Assault on Pregnant People’s Personhood: Unpacking Fetal Personhood
• The Critical Role of Parent Partner Programs: Policy and Practice Considerations
• “Unto the Third Generation” Revisited: The Impact of a National Plan to End Child Abuse in The United States within Three Generations
• What They Are Saying: Child Welfare Reauthorization Delivers First-In-A-Generation Wins for Parents and Families
• Guide for Providers: No-Cost Training Resources on Kinship/Grandfamily Mental Health Needs
• The 2023 Federal Human Trafficking Report
• Babies in Care Proceedings: What Do We Know About Parents with Learning Disabilities or Difficulties?
• Incorporating Lived Experience Into Child Welfare Capacity Building
• Legal Assistance for Native Kinship / Grandfamilies Involved with Child Welfare: How to Find an Attorney & Help Them Help You
• Your Case, Your Rights: Your Guide To Exercising Self-Advocacy
• QIC-EY Lessons Learned: Fundamental Insights to Engage Children and Youth
• Modernizing Minor Guardianship in State Courts
• Capacity Building Center for Tribes Prevention Brief
• Advocating For Reasonable Efforts For LGBTQIA+ Youth In Foster Care
• Fostering Responsible Tech Use
• Timely Health Care for Children and Youth in Foster Care: Getting Started on Quality Improvement
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• Clearinghouse Approves New Mental Health, Substance Abuse Programs for Family First Act Funding
• Child Welfare Law Career Guide
• Children in Residential Treatment Facilities Face Multiple Risks: Senate Report
• The Kids Are Not Alright: A Look into the Absence of Laws Protecting Children in Social Media
• The Misdiagnosed and Overmedicated Children in Foster Care
• FROM CHILD WELFARE TO WELL-BEING: A Blueprint for CBOs and Government Agencies
• Supporting Timely and Successful Reunifications
• The Role of Parent Partner Programs in Supporting Prevention and Reunification
• New Training on Adapting Family Finding and Engagement Practices for LGBTQ+ Youth
• How Child Welfare Agencies Can Support Reunification
• The Importance of Father Engagement in Family-Centered Reunification
• Birth and Foster Parent Partnership: Directory of Strategies and Resources
• Psychotropic Polypharmacy Trends Rise Among Child, Adolescent Medicaid Beneficiaries
• Analysis From a State-by-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies
• Methodological Research to Support the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence
• QIC-EY NOW Clips and Tips
• Family Engagement in Systems Change: Use of a New Assessment Tool in Quality Improvement
• Exploring the Contours of Expert Testimony Regarding Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome
• From Evidence to Action: How Do We Establish Systems to Support Evidence Use?
• FASD United Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Resource Directory
• The Unintended Consequences of“Lack of Supervision”Child Neglect Laws: How Developmental Science Can Inform Policies about Childhood Independence and Child Protection
• Using Strength And Challenges To Measure Youth Well-Being
• Learn The Basics Of Juvenile Justice
• State Strategies To Mitigate The Impact Of Housing Instability On Child Welfare Involvement
• Examining Financial Hardship and Caregiver Subgroups in Kinship Foster Placements: A Machine Learning Approach
• Determining the Best Interests of the Child
• WHAT YOUNG LEADERS WANT — AND DON’T WANT —FROM OLDER ALLIES
• CSG South Announces Collaboration with Casey Family Programs
• Resource Guide for Kinship/Grandfamily Providers
• Behavioral Health Diagnoses and Treatment Services for Children and Youth Involved with the Child Welfare System
• Where We Stand: A 20-Year Retrospective Of The Unaccompanied Children’s Program In The United States
• Game-changing’ Emergency Housing Vouchers to Help Foster Children, Families in Jefferson Parish
• How Should Clinicians and Health Care Organizations Promote Equity in Child Abuse and Neglect Suspicion, Evaluation, and Reporting?
• McGirt v Oklahoma and What Clinicians Should Know About Present-Day Child Abuse and Legacies of Forced Migration
• How Should Clinicians Minimize Bias When Responding to Suspicions About Child Abuse?
• Interested in policy supporting homeless youths? ABA group provides guidance
• Exploring the Effects of Maltreatment and Child Welfare System Experiences on Juvenile Justice Involvement
• Helping Children and Youth Maintain Relationships With Birth Families
• Birth Family Connections and Openness
• On the Threshold of Change
• Prenatal Drug Exposure: CAPTA Reporting Requirements for Medical Professionals
• Supporting Kinship Families of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
• Factors That Predict The Safe Recovery Of Missing And Abducted Children
• Judicial, Court, and Attorney Measures of Performance (JCAMP): Quick Start Guide
• MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT IN THE COURTROOM
• FAMILY JUSTICE JOURNAL: The Need For Belonging
• Adoption Triad: Practicing Adoption Competence by Examining the Impact of Race, Culture, and Diversity
• Relative Foster Care Is Increasing Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children in Foster Care
• Trauma-Focused Practice Supplement for the Crossover Youth Practice Model
• Trends in State Mental Health Policy
• Strategies for Addressing Length of Stay to Improve Outcomes for Youth and Communities
• Promoting Healthy Relationships in Foster Care—“If I Had Seen What a Healthy Relationship Looks Like, that Would Have Changed My Perspective”
• A Change Framework for Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives and Promoting Racial Justice
• Screening for Substance Use in Child Welfare Using the UNCOPE
• White House Announces Slate of Actions on Child Welfare
• Indian Child Welfare (ICW)Quarterly and Annual Report
• Fact Sheet: Children Thrive in Grandfamilies
• The State of Children With Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs
• Announcing New Resource On Infants Affected By Prenatal Substance Exposure
• Restrictions on Food Stamps Will Be Lifted For Former Foster Youth
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• Intergenerational Evaluation Toolkit
• Adoption Triad: Tribal Customary Adoption
• The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• Child and family outcomes of the Safe Babies Court Team – A scoping review
• Critical Child Protection Studies. (Special Issue of Social Sciences).
• Racial Equity Tip Sheets
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• Trauma-Informed Legal Representation for Youth in Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline
• Four Ways That Courts Can Actively Engage Children and Youth Involved in Child Welfare Proceedings
• Immunity for Persons Who Report Child Abuse and Neglect
• Child Welfare and FFPSA
• Barriers to Authentic Youth Engagement in Permanency Planning
• Common Problems, Common Solutions
• ORR Unaccompanied Children Program Policy Guide
• Adoption Triad: The Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency
• Dads Matter: The Taxpayer Cost of Fatherlessness
• Chart: “What do I do?” Trauma-Informed Support for Children
• Qualifications and Standards for Attorneys Representing Children in Need of Care – Reports Due January 31st
• A Research-Based Question and Answer Resource on Sex Trafficking for Youth-Supporting Professionals
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• The Attorney Manual to Guide Representation of Children Victimized by the Online Distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material
• Social Media Tips for Foster Youth, Foster Parents and Child Welfare Workers
• National Compendium of Trauma-Responsive Policies and Programs
• Building a Relationship With Birth Families
• Juvenile Law Center Launches Digital Youth Advocacy Toolkit
• Temporary Child-Welfare Placements Target Nonwhite Children Disproportionately
• State of American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Families Report
• Language Bias in Child Welfare (Includes audio)
• Benefits of Kinship Placement
• Speaking of Change: How Can Kinship Care Advance Racial Equity in Child Welfare?
• Louisiana’s Families in Need of Services
  Laws Providing the Right Services to
  Children and Families
• Children in Today’s Courtroom
• My Community Cares: Strengthening Families and Supporting Communities
• ABCs of ACEs
• Using ACEs and TBRI to Implement a Trauma-Informed Courtroom
• Overview: LSBA Children’s Law Committee Continuing Advocacy for Louisiana’s Future
• Guide to Legal Guardianship in Child in Need of Care Cases (CINC)
• Recommendations for Child Welfare System Support from Youth Currently and Formerly in Foster Care
• Survey of Youth Currently and Formerly in Foster Care at Risk for Human Trafficking: Final Report
• Trauma-Informed Youth Transitions in Tribal Child Welfare
• The Little Agency That Could: Louisiana’s Mental Health Advocacy Service
• Recommendations for Legal Representation of Children and Youth in Neglect and Abuse Proceedings
• National Adoption Month Resources for Legal Professionals
• Native American Heritage Month – ICWA
• Data Capacity: What Is It and Does Our Family Treatment Court Team Have It?
• Family Treatment Courts – Strategy Briefs
• Court Process and Legal Rights Guide For Foster Caregivers
• Safety Guide: A Guide for Judges and Attorneys
• Child Welfare Hearing Quality Research: What Legal Professionals Should Know
• How Legal Professionals Can Use the Compendium of Measures and Data Sources: Understanding Judicial Decision-Making and Hearing Quality in Child Welfare
• The Art of Listening Effectively
• Five Resources for Lawyers Representing Transition Aged Youth
• Trauma Caused by Separation of Children from Parents
• What You Need to Know About Child in Need of Care Cases in Louisiana (Quick Guide)
• Tips & Tools for Providing High-Quality Legal Representation to Children and Parents in Child Welfare Proceedings: Out-of-Court Advocacy
• Getting Down to Basics: Tools to Support LGBTQ Youth in Care
• Utilizing Title IV-E Funds to Support High Quality Legal Representation for Children & Youth Who are in Foster Care
• Qualifications and Standards for Attorneys Representing Children in Need of Care
• Child Safety Powerpoint
• Human Trafficking, Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, and Commercial Sexual Exploitation. Pursuant to Act 564 Louisiana 2014 Regular Session. Annual Report, February 2018.
• Reasonable Efforts as Prevention