Interdisciplinary ​Resources

• Continued Decline in Fourth Grade Reading Scores: 7 in 10 Below Proficient in 2024
• Rate of Uninsured Kids Increased Nationwide and in 29 States in 2024
• What Is Generation Alpha?
• ACF Expands Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder for At-Risk Families
• A Summary of Research About Practice, Policy, and Systems Change to Support Transition-Age Youth
• How to Introduce Yourself To The Family
• Protecting Access to SNAP for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Critical Strategies for State Implementation
• Louisiana Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS) Fiscal Year 2026 Business
• Promoting Meaningful Partnerships with Lived Experience Experts in High-Quality Research: Considerations for Funders
• Why Child Welfare Agencies Struggle to Include Dads
• Increased Use of Extended Foster Care Allows More Young People to Benefit
• Two Thirds of Foster Youth Remain Stably Housed Through Age 21
• Child Maltreatment
• Retaining Experienced Child and Family Social Workers: The Role of Professional Identity
• Secondary Traumatic Stress and The Child Welfare Workforce: A Case Study on Resilience.
• Intergenerational Learning: Proven Benefits for Both Elders and Youth
• Teens Need Families
• Sowing The Seeds Of Hope: Keeping Children Safe with Families
• School Breakfast and Lunch Programs for Grandfamilies and Kinship Families
• State of Homelessness: 2025 Edition
• A Sign of Greater Hardship to Come
• Child Poverty Nearly Triples to 13% Over Three Years
• Predicting Maltreatment in Foster Homes: The Role of Child Welfare Agency Policies
• Measuring Access To Opportunity In The United States: A 10-Year Update
• Child Welfare Intelligence? Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Child Protective Services Arena
• The Need For a Paradigm Shift in Child Welfare Research in The United States
• Experts Find Foster Youth Fare Better In College Than Once Thought— But Still Need More Support Than They Get
• New Findings from Rx Kids Shows that Unconditional Cash in Perinatal Stage Can Improve Health and Well-being for Moms and Babies
• Title IV-E University-Agency Partnership Stipend Programs: Building a Better Workforce
• Child Welfare and Foster Care Statistics
• Louisiana DCFS 2024 Foster Care and Adoption Management Report
• Louisiana DCFS 2025 – 2029 Five-Year Child and Family Services Plan
• Louisiana DCFS 2025 Annual Progress and Service Report (APSR)
• Louisiana DCFS Fiscal Year 2026 Business Plan
• Prioritizing Black Kinship Caregivers’ Health Means Reducing Their Stress
• Career Pathways to Success
• Foster Care Education Outcomes: New Research Challenges the 3% Myth
• The Danger of AI Overuse
• The Adolescent Brain, Stress And Systems That Support Young People
• Implementing a Family-Centered Approach in Outpatient Treatment
• Strategies to Increase Survey Response Rates From Youth
• Improving Early Childhood Outcomes and Systems for Families Affected by Parental Substance Use
• State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
• Using DNA to Reunify Families Separated by Disasters
• Framework for Coherent AI Use in K-12 Education
• Child Welfare: Purposes, Federal Programs, and Funding
• Child Welfare Financing Survey
• Community Colleges Helping Student Parents Secure Support and Stability
• Fact Sheet: What To Know About the Child Care for Working Families Act
• Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) on Louisiana’s Early Childhood Education System,Children, and Families
• Most Public Schools Lack AI Policies for Students
• What is Generation Alpha?
• Young Leaders Gain Practical Tools and Strong Relationships In New Fellowship
• Building Coalitions For Community-Led Change
• Medicaid Reform, Youth Mental Health and EMS Corps
• Questions to Guide Youth Engagement in Local Public Health Efforts
• School Leaders More Likely to Support AI Use by Teachers Than Students
• Most Schools Don’t Teach AI Ethics to All Students
• Journey to Success – Foster Care Independence Act
• 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
• A Majority of Hispanic Children in Households With Low Incomes Live in Two-Parent Families
• Working With Families to Support the Children of the Opioid Epidemic
• LGBTQ+ Youth and Families
• LDH Launches Project M.O.M. With New Director, Website, and Detailed Roadmap
• Incorporating Early Educators’ Experience Into Career Pathways
• 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book Interactive
• Pandemic Child Care Relief Funds Reduced Closures of Black-Owned Home-Based Child Care Programs
• Equipping Kinship Caregivers For Success
• Gen z Characteristics: Who They are & What Defines Gen z
• Caregiving:HHS Should Clarify When Youth May Qualify for Support Services
• Data-At-A-Glance: How Teens Use Trauma Services: Differences Based on Suicide Risk and Ethnoracial Identity
• How Can The System of Care Approach Improve Outcomes For Children and Families Involved With Child Welfare?
• 9 in 10 Hispanic Children in Households With Low Incomes Live With at Least One Employed Adult
• Change Collaborative on Trauma-Informed Suicide Prevention and Healing
• Highlights From Evaluating an Intergenerational Community That Supports Children Formerly in Foster Care
• How the Pelican Center used the Community Opportunity Map to support students in Louisiana
• April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Promoting Peer Support in Child Welfare
• Internet Safety for Kids
• Creating Supportive Work Environments For Youth With Foster Care Experience
• Highlights From a Decade of the Center’s Research on Supports for Economic Self-sufficiency Among Latino Families With Children
• Strong Data Are Critical to Supporting the Early Care and Education Workforce
• State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
• Healthier Lives Across Generations: A Blueprint for Intergenerational Living
• Caught In The Middle: Louisiana Parents, Work, and the Struggle for Affordable Child Care
• Louisiana Kinship Navigator
• Black Emerging Adults Identify Protective Community Resources That Promote Their Well-being
• Mentorship as a Pathway to Opportunity: A Conversation With Artis Stevens
• Employment Checklist For Students (ages 14-22) With Disabilities
• 2025 Federal Poverty Level Standards
• Child Neglect, Inequity, & Poverty: Practice Innovations, Concrete Resources, and Justice
• What About Me? Finding your path forward when your brother or sister is missing
• Timing of Medicaid Enrollment for Children Engaged with Child Welfare Services in Two States
• Building Successful Data Linking Teams for Child Welfare and Medicaid Agencies
• Historic Child Welfare Reforms and Family Supports Signed into Law
• Innovative 988 Crisis Service Systems For Children, Youth, and People with Disabilities
• Sections 5121 and 5122 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
• MACStats: Medicaid and CHIP Data Book
• Ten Myths About the Effect of Social Media Use on Well-Being
• U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking
• Elevating Prevention and Promotion in Early Childhood Mental Health
• Characteristics of Pregnant and Postpartum Women With Opioid-Exposed Births and Their Children According to Type of Behavioral Health Treatment
• Timing of Medicaid Enrollment for Children Engaged with Child Welfare Services in Two States
• Study Links Infant Temperament, ADHD Symptoms, and Childhood Maltreatment
• The Well-Being of LGBTQ+ Youth in Foster Care: The Youth Acceptance Project
• The Relationship Between Resilience and Child Health Behaviors In A National Dataset
• Fatherhood, Family, And The Crisis Of Boys And Men
• An Overview and Panel Discussion of the Multi-Systems Integration Pilot Program
• CMS Framework for Advancing Health Care in Rural, Tribal, and Geographically Isolated Communities
• Indigenous Child Wellness: A Scoping Review of Best Practices with Initial Advising from Indigenous Community Members on Contextual Considerations and Next Steps.
• Advancing Health Care in Rural, Tribal, and Geographically Isolated Communities
• Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Critical Appraisal 
• The State of the Social Service Workforce 2024 Report: The Social Service Workforce and Family Care for Children
• Prenatal Drug Exposure: CAPTA Reporting Requirements for Medical Professionals
• Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System
• Child Welfare Ideas From the Experts
• “Daniel Really Suits You”: Trans Stories are Everyone’s Stories
• Why the Holidays Can Be Hard and How to Make Them Better by Jamerika Haynes-Lewis
• 12 Ideas for Supportive Adults to Help a Young Person in Foster Care Through the Holidays
• The Charter School Advantage: How Charter Schools can Advance the Educational Solutions that Students with Disabilities Need
• Inescapable AI
• Equitable Access to Transportation Advisory Council Releases 10 Key Recommendations to Advance Youth Transportation Equity
• Report to Congress on the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019
• White House Task Force To Address Online Harassment And Abuse
• New Insights on State Kinship Diversion Policies
• Warm vs Harsh Parenting Alters Shape of Children’s Brains, Study Finds
• The Child Labor Coalition Announces The 2024 Congressional Champions of Child Labor Protections for Taking Bold Action Against Child Labor Exploitation
• Request for Information: Use and Conservation of Social Security Benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Payments That Representative Payees Receive for Beneficiaries Residing in Foster Care
• President Biden Proclaims November as Native American Heritage Month
• Sociodemographic Characteristics of LGBTQ Parents in the United States
• New Toolkit Provides Guidance on Understanding and Applying ICWA
• New Report Emphasizes Importance of Post-permanency Services
• November Is National Adoption Month
• Fourteenth Annual Report to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps Across the Lifespan, in All Communities
• Characteristics of Transition-Age Youth Engaging In Suicidal Behavior
• A Guide To Applying Youth Voice
• Cutting Child Poverty In Half and More: Pandemic-era Lessons From Child and Family Advocates and Organizers
• The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations
• Letters: U.S. Surgeon General Takes Important Stand on Parental Stress
• Students with Disabilities and Bullying: Top Five Things for Parents, Educators, and Students to Know
• Preventing Substance Use Among Young Adults With Disabilities
• A Prevention-Focused, Multisystem Framework to Help Families Meet Their Needs
• Free Center for Disease Control App Tracks Childhood Development
• Brief Addresses Secondary Traumatic Stress in the Workforce
• Prosocial Peers as Risk, Protective, and Promotive Factors for the Prevention of Delinquency and Drug Use
• There’s a Place: How Parents Help Their Children Create a Capacity for Playfulness and can it be Sustained across the Lifespan
• SNAP Benefits to Change in October: Here’s Who’s Impacted
• Coordinating Integrated Prevention Approaches to Serve the Whole Person
• Case Studies in Supporting Prevention Through Human Services Program Integration
• The Legal Assault on Pregnant People’s Personhood: Unpacking Fetal Personhood
• State Medicaid Approaches to Respite Care for Children and Youth with Chronic and Complex Needs
• PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS K-12 Education Support for Kinship and Grandfamilies
• Bipartisanship Across the Nation: A Review of State Child Welfare Legislation
• BROKEN PROMISES: FUTURES DENIED
• Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: State Case Studies and Policy Recommendations
• Children and Teens with Anxiety or Depression in United States
• National Hispanic Heritage Month
• A Comprehensive Approach to Wellness for All School Staff
• Investigation: Nearly 1,000 Native Children Died in Federal Boarding Schools
• Children in Poverty in United States
• Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children
• Leveraging Title IV-E To Advance High-Quality Legal Representation & Training
• Pain in the Nation: The Epidemics of Alcohol, Drug, and Suicide Deaths 2024.
• FAMILY JUSTICE JOURNAL
• Back to School 2024: New Louisiana Laws Will Affect Schools, Kids, Teens and Families
• Louisiana Schools Chief Calls for Stricter Discipline, Return to Classroom ‘Law and Order’
• Young Leaders Tackle Key Issues That Affect Black Children and Families’ Well-being
• Perceived Social and Emotional Support Among Teenagers: United States, July 2021–December 2022
• Head Start Programs and Child Welfare Partnerships
• Culture and Child Welfare
• Five Things About Youth and Delinquency
• New Insights on State Kinship Diversion Policies
• What’s Working (or Not) in State Policies for Substance Use During Pregnancy
• Children’s Coalition for Northeast Louisiana to Relaunch Youth Services Planning Board
• Families in Transition Report
• Understanding The State Of Global LGBTQI+ Persecution
• NDAA Juvenile Prosecution Principles and Guidelines
• Global Report on Early Childhood Care and Education
• Roots of Support Building: Building Infrastructures to Support Children and Families In the Child Welfare System
• Navigating Foster Care: How Parental Drug Use and Caregiver Attitudes Shape Children’s Mentalization Processes—an Exploratory Longitudinal Follow-up Study
• Instability in Foster Care: How Transitions Into and Out of Foster Care Relate to School Discipline
• Building Family Inclusive Youth Services
• A Snapshot of States’ Child Welfare Data Systems of Record
• Offering Walk-in Counselling as a Low-Barrier and Accessible Service for Youth
• Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: Current and Emerging Threats
• Police in Schools: The Complicated Impact on Students, School Environments, and the Juvenile Courts
• Sexual Cyberbullying Research Summary
• State Child Welfare Data Linkages Descriptive Study Technical Report: Study Background and Design
• State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
• The Current State of Youth Homelessness Approaches: Insights and Observations
• LGBTQ+ Young People Are At Higher Risk For Childhood Adversity 
• Safety by Design for Generative AI: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
• Partnering for Success Symptom Monitoring Outcomes: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Plus for Children and Youth in Child Welfare
• Associations Between Potentially Traumatic Events and Psychopathology Among Preadolescents in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study®
• Applying the Social Work Health Impact Model to Child Maltreatment: Implications for Social Work Education
• Child Welfare: Purposes, Federal Programs, and Funding
• Building Generational Resilience: Supporting BIPOC Grandfamilies and Kinship Families’ Mental Health
• Data Snapshot Reveals Alarming Depression Rates Among Youth
• Here’s How Companies Can Show Up for Unconventional Families
• Fostering Responsible Tech Use
• Improving Timely Health Care for Children and Youth in Foster Care: How to Build a Family of Measures
• Rethinking Peer Influence and Risk Taking: A Strengths-based Approach to Adolescence in a New Era
• The Cycle of Violence: Effects of Violence Experience, Behavior, and Attitudes on Adolescents’ Peer Rejection Networks
• Reunification From Foster Care: A Guide for Parents
• State of Babies Yearbook: 2023
• Improving Timely Health Care for Children and Youth in Foster Care Driver Diagram and Change Ideas
• Reporting of Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Southern State in the United States
• The Misdiagnosed and Overmedicated Children in Foster Care
• FROM CHILD WELFARE TO WELL-BEING: A Blueprint for CBOs and Government Agencies
• Capacity Building Center for Tribes Releases New Prevention Resources
• New Training on Adapting Family Finding and Engagement Practices for LGBTQ+ Youth
• How Child Welfare Agencies Can Support Reunification
• The Science of Engaging Youth Lived Experience in Health Research, Practice, and Policy
• Social Media and Adolescent Health
• ORR Influx Care Facilities for Unaccompanied Children Fact Sheet
• Trauma-Informed Housing: A Toolkit for Advancing Equity and Economic Opportunity in Affordable Housing
• The Way Forward: Report of the Alyce Spotted Bear & Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children
• Co-designing a Kin-first Culture Approach in Child Welfare – Public Service Design Conference 2023
• On the Threshold of Change Forces that Could Transform Future Conditions for Youth in Extended Foster Care (EFC)
• Trauma-Informed Housing
• Building and Sustaining Data Analytics Capacity
• Psychotropic Polypharmacy Trends Rise Among Child, Adolescent Medicaid Beneficiaries
• 2024 Race for Results Report
• The Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Anxiety Disorders
• Tackling the Rising Incidence of Financial Sexual Extortion
• Promoting Anti-racist Child Welfare Practice
• Preferred Practices to Retain Black Female Case Workers Employed in Child Welfare
• Meeting Family Needs: A Multi-System Policy Framework for Child and Family Well-Being
• From Foster Care to Secure Housing: How Vouchers Help Young Adults Build Self-Sufficiency
• An Introduction to the Child Welfare Community Collaborations Grantees and Strategies
• The AFCARS Report
• Pharmacists’ Vital Role in Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse
• Child Opportunity Index (COI)
• Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment
• America’s Growing Movement to Divert Youth Out of the Justice System
• Foster Care History,Profiles of Adolescence,and Educational Attainment
• Leveraging Cross-Program Data to Modernize Outreach & Enrollment in SNAP & Connected Benefits
• Transcending Age-Based Divides: The Case for Scaling Intergenerational Solutions
• How Positive Youth Development Approaches Can Inform Your Business Choices
• CDC Guidance for Communities Assessing, Investigating and Responding to Suicide Clusters, United States, 2024
• Discrimination In Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence From Child Protection
• Prenatal Drug Exposure: CAPTA Reporting Requirements for Medical Professionals
• Recommendations for Regulating Artificial Intelligence to Minimize Risks to Children and Their Families
• Using Personal Experience To Improve Human Services
• Connecting Sex Trafficking Survivors To Education And Jobs
• Creating Equitable Ecosystems of Belonging and Opportunity for Youth An Action Guide for Cross-System and Sector Leaders and Practitioners
• Building And Empowering Impactful Children’s Cabinets
• Bridging the Gaps: Child Welfare’s Vital Role in Public Health Emergencies Addressing Intimate Partner Violence
• Mandated Reporting Policies Do Not Promote More Accurate Reporting of Suspected Neglect
• Measuring Youth Development: How Out-of-School Time Programs Collect and Use Data
• Adoption And Foster Care Analysis And Reporting
• An Exploration of Online Professional Development Systems Supporting the Competencies of Infant and Toddler Teachers and Caregivers: Key Findings and Next Steps for Learning
• Analysis of Public Comments on the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
• Supporting the Professional Development of Infant and Toddler Teachers and Caregivers
• Transform Child Welfare through Support for the Workforce
• National Child Abuse Prevention Month 2024
• FAMILY TIES
• WHAT YOUNG LEADERS WANT — AND DON’T WANT —FROM OLDER ALLIES
• Play for All Ages: Designing Intergenerational Spaces That Build Connections and Encourage Learning
• CSG South Announces Collaboration with Casey Family Programs
• Webinar Discusses the 4 Cs of Workforce Development: Culture, Competency, Capacity, & Community
• Color-Brave Caregiver Framework
• Understanding Racism’s Impact on Child Development: Working Toward Fairness of Place in the United States
• Spotlight On Youth Mentoring
• The Influence Of Early-life Adversity On The Coupling of Structural and Functional Brain Connectivity Across Childhood
• Latino Grandfamilies: Helping Latino Children Thrive Through Connection To Culture And Family
• The Core Characteristics Of Generation Z
• McGirt v Oklahoma and What Clinicians Should Know About Present-Day Child Abuse and Legacies of Forced Migration
• Key Updates to Understanding Roles of Childhood Trauma in Overall Health
• How Should Clinicians and Students Cope With Secondary Trauma When Caring for Children Traumatized by Abuse or Neglect?
• How Should Race and Resource Context Influence How Neglect Is Considered by Clinicians?
• Child Trafficking: Addressing Challenges to Public Awareness and Survivor Support
• Reaching and Supporting Families Most in Need: Lessons and Practice Considerations from the Head Start REACH Case Studies
• Helping Children and Youth Maintain Relationships With Birth Families
• Birth Family Connections and Openness
• A Review of Human-Centered Design in Human Services
• Every State is Failing to Equip All Kids for Success, Especially Children of Color, Says New Report
• Economic Empowerment for People Who Have Experienced Human Trafficking: A Guide for Anti-Trafficking Service Providers
• All Children – All Families: The State of LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Child Welfare – 2023 Report
• Effectiveness of Family-Involved Interventions in Reducing Co-Occurring Alcohol Use and Mental Health Problems in Young People Aged 12–17: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Advancing Child Trauma Screening Practices: An Evidence-Informed Framework for a Pictorial Child Trauma Screening Tool
• Sexual Post-traumatic Stress Among Investigators Of Child Sexual Abuse Material
• Kids and Teens Need Resilience
• Parents and Caregivers
• Expectant and Parenting Youth in Child Welfare
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• 2023 State of Grandfamilies Report Release Event
• Youth Suicide Current Trends and the Path to Prevention
• ADVANCING EQUITABLE OUTCOMES IN CHILD WELFARE
• 6 Tips to Reduce Holiday Stress for Families With Special Needs
• Inclusion: Always in Season
• FROM EFFICACY TO EFFECTIVENESS: Community Health Workers, Medical Homes for Children,and the Measurement Systems to Support Them
• Engaging Parents And Youths With Lived Experiences
• Seen, Counted, Included: Using data to shed light on the well-being of children with disabilities
• Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Schools: An Action Guide for School and District Leaders
• It’s Still Happening
• Caddo Juvenile Services’ Trauma-Informed Care Used as Statewide Model for LDH Youth, Families Initiative
• Child Welfare Practice Tip Sheets Series
• DRUG TESTING FOR PARENTS INVOLVED IN CHILD WELFARE: THREE KEY PRACTICE POINTS
• Best of Youth Voices Rising, 2023
• The Need to Provide Holistic Support to Young Children in Acute Emergencies
• Streamlining the New SNAP Time Limit Exemption for Young People With Experience in Foster Care
• LOUISIANA HOME VISITING CAPACITY STUDY
• Whole Health Louisiana State Plan
• Building Resilience in Children After Trauma
• A Framework for Reviewing Professional Development Strategies in Child Care and Early Education
• COVID-Era Child Welfare Financing Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
• Every Community Is Worth Collecting Data On
• 10 Ways to Practice PCEs During the Holiday Season.
• The 15 Best Grounding Exercises For Kids
• Parenting Foster Kids with Challenging Behaviors
• Trends in State Mental Health Policy
• Lived Experience of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Scoping Review
• Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors Associated with Psychotropic Medication and Mental Health Service Use among Children in Out-of-Home Care in the United States: A Scoping Review
• Class is in Session: A Discussion Guide to Help Families Navigate Schools
• Sexual Health Facilitators’ Guide to Responding to Youths’ Questions About Sex
• Many Hispanic Households With Low Income Access No-Cost or Low-Cost Care, Yet Nearly One in Four Face High Out-of-Pocket Costs
• Dismantling Systemic and Structural Racism to Improve the Mental Health and Well-Being of Children and Youth
• QIC-WD Announces Key Findings From Eight Child Welfare Workforce Interventions
• Among Latino Children, Nearly Half Live in Households That Own Their Homes
• Defining and Measuring the Complexity of Stepfamilies in the United States
• Kinship Care Supports the Academic Performance of Children
• One in Four Children Nationwide Are Latino, With 6-to-12-year-olds Making Up Nearly 40 Percent of Latino Children
• iFoster Supports New Actions to Support Children and Families in Foster Care
• The Biden-Harris Administration Awards $20 Million to Launch First National Center to Support Mental Health Services in the Child Welfare System
• Applying Research to Practice: A Practitioner’s Framework for Prevention Programming
• An Environmental Scan of Cybercrime Measurement: Recommendations for the National Crime Victimization Survey
• Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience
• Child Safety Forward Implementation Study Final Report
• Extraterritorial Child Sexual Abuse
• Sextortion, Crowdsourcing, Enticement, and Coercion
• Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use Part 2
• What’s at Stake as Public Spending on Kids Declines?
• Social Media’s Concerning Effect on Teen Mental Health
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services – Overdose Prevention Strategy
• Latest Data: Combination Drug Use Increases Overdoses
• Experiences of Faith-Based Organizations as Key Stakeholders in Policy Responses to Human Trafficking
• Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) before age 3: Evidence for the Family Map Inventory
• The Evidence Base for How and Why Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Works
• Common Problems, Common Solutions
• Effective Alternatives to Youth Incarceration
• ‘On Paper, You’re Normal’: Narratives of Unseen Health Needs Among Women Who Have Had Children Removed From Their Care
• Using Rapid Cycle Learning to Build Momentum for Change in Two-Generation Service Delivery
• Report Documents the Critical Elements of Protecting Alaska Native Children — Connections to Culture and the Environment
• The Indivisibility of Parental and Child Mental Health and Why Poverty Matters
• Child Sexual Abuse Material
• Child Exploitation in Special Areas and Populations
• What Is Bullying
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• Caring for a Child Affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
• Intergenerational Evaluation Toolkit
• Race, Poverty, and Foster Care Placement in the United States: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Perspectives
• PRO-DATA
• Adoption Triad: Developmental Trauma and Sensory Processing Challenges
• Study Reveals Foster Children 4x More Likely to Get Psychotropic Drugs
• State of Louisiana 2023 Annual Progress and Service Report
• 7 Ways to Introduce Executive Functions to Kids & Teens
• Leadership Self-Assessment
• Parent Leaders and Their Impact on Children and Families
• Intergenerational Evaluation Toolkit
• Together at the Table: Supporting the Nutrition, Health, and Well-Being of Grandfamilies
• Thriving Families Safer Children Supportive Communities
• Aged Out How We’re Failing Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
• Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs
• Warning: Victims’ Faces Placed on Explicit Images in Sextortion Scam
• Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use Part 2
• Knowing the Strengths and Limitations of Poverty Measures Can Help Us Better Understand Poverty
• U.S. Surgeon General Issues Advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
• Application Call: Join Casey’s Juvenile Justice Applied Leadership Network
• Using Results Count to Realize the Promise of Equity for All
• Sharing Our Space
• Critical Child Protection Studies. (Special Issue of Social Sciences).
• Conversation Starters on Building More Equitable Early Childhood Systems
• Knowing the Strengths and Limitations of Poverty Measures Can Help Us Better Understand Poverty
• Report: Children Make Up Smallest-Ever Share of U.S. Population
• Fact Sheet: Children Thrive in Grandfamilies.
• When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide, Fifth Edition
• 2022 State of Grandfamilies Report:
• Intergenerational Evaluation Toolkit
• Surgeon General Issues Advisory that Social Media is Contributing to Youth Mental Health Crisis
• Watch for Warning Signs of Child Abuse and/or Neglect
• Fostering Youth Transitions 2023
• Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs
• Racial Equity Toolkits Featuring Grandfamilies
• Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use
• Intergenerational Community Planning.
• Connecting with Families in Black and Indigenous Communities.
• The Mental Health and Well-Being of Multiracial LGBTQ Youth
• Charting the Path to Healing & Resilience
• Federal and State Resources for Students Experiencing Homelessness
• Child Exploitation Resources for the K-12 Community
• Transforming Experience Through HOPE
• Social Media Gallery for Social Work
• Social Media Gallery for Developmental Disabilities and Delays
• Tools That Teach: What is Human Trafficking?
• Webinar Features Intentional Approaches for Partnering With Individuals With Lived Experience in an Agency Setting
• Gender Differences in Sexual Well-Being and Sexual Identity Development among Youth Formerly in the Foster Care System in the United States
• Community Prevention of Child Maltreatment:
• Data on Families With Low Incomes Across America Can Inform Two-Generation Approaches
• DCFS hires more than 300 child welfare division employees
• Child Welfare: HHS Is Taking Steps to Help States Support Relative Caregivers with Evidence-Based Programs
• New CDC Report Highlights Youth Risk Behavior Challenges
• Containing Trauma: Closing the Wounds that we Open
• The Trauma Triangle: How Fostering Awareness of Reenactments Builds Resilience
• Take It Down
• Assessing Trauma in American Indian/Alaska Native Parents as an ICWA Active Effort
• COVID-19 Lessons Learned for Child Welfare
• Most Popular Self-Care Resources of 2022
• Using a Structured Learning Process to Strengthen Two-Generation Service Delivery
• New Child Maltreatment Report Finds Child Abuse and Neglect Decreased to a Five-Year Low
• A Poor Poverty Measure
• YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEY
• Teens, especially girls, are experiencing more violence, suicidal thoughts and mental health challenges.
• TRANSFORMING CHILD WELFARE SYSTEMS
• A Review of State Efforts to Enforce Mental Health Parity: Lessons for Policymakers and Regulators
• Literacy Tutoring Program
• Newborns Exposed To Substances: Understanding Their Needs and Supporting Their Caregivers
• Common Developmental Trajectories of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• Grandfamilies disproportionately at-risk for food insecurity, advocates say
• What Can We Learn About the Incidence of
  Foster Care Placement from Birth Records?
  Findings from the Cross Jurisdiction Model Replication Project
• Behavioral Health Resources for Youth
• Together at the Table: Supporting the Nutrition, Health, and Well-Being of Grandfamilies
• SOAR Human Trafficking Training Framework
• ACF Releases Resources to Strengthen the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking
• Louisiana DCFS Strategic Plan FY24 to FY28
• DCFS Services Statewide: In Federal Fiscal Year 2021
• Louisiana Launches Hotline for Reporting Juvenile Sex Trafficking
• New Racial Equity Tip Sheets – Connecting Family and Culture
• January Is Human Trafficking Prevention Month
• Children and COVID-19: State Data Report: A Joint Report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association: Summary of Publicly Reported Data from 49 states, NYC, DC, PR, and GU.
• Louisiana DCFS: Job Satisfaction Survey
• 2022 Kids Count Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being
• The Mental Health and Well-Being of Multiracial LGBTQ Youth
• New Study Looks At Foster Care, Parental Incarceration, and Youth Mental Health
• Addressing the Impacts of Parent and Caregiver Loss on Children (Includes audio)
• Strategies to Support the Needs of Infants and Toddlers in Child Welfare and Early Intervention Programs
• Addressing discrimination supports youth suicide prevention efforts
• Resources to Help Children and Families in the Aftermath of a Hurricane
• HHS Delivers First National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
• Understanding Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Resource Guide for Professionals Referring to Treatment
• Chosen Affirming Family Finding
• Youth Acceptance Project
• Challenges in Identifying and Supporting Human
  Services Participants with Substance Use Disorder
• Risk of premature death in adulthood influenced by patterns of early childhood adversity
• Reinforcing a Strong Foundation: Equitable Supports for Basic Needs of Grandfamilies
• Racial Equity Toolkits Featuring Grandfamilies
• Academic Success for Students in Foster Care Begins with Strong Partnerships Between Child Welfare and Education Systems
• Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affected by Substance Use and Mental Disorders
• Adoption: Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Families
• Toolkit: How to Engage People with Lived Experience
• Homelessness and Housing Instability Among LGBTQ Youth
• Organizing for Racial Equity Within the Federal Government
• Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs
• Reinforcing a Strong Foundation: Equitable Supports for Basic Needs of Grandfamilies
• State of Babies Yearbook 2022
• Children and COVID-19: State Data Report:
• Free Toolkit Assesses Life Skills Youth Need for Independence
• April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Child Opportunity Index
• Addressing Structural Racism Through Equitable Policy Making for Black Families
• Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children’s Behavior
• State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
• Child Maltreatment Report 2020
• A Toolkit for Juvenile Justice Agencies to Help Young People Heal and Thrive During and After Natural Disasters
• KIDS COUNT Adds New Dataset on Youth and Young Adults
• Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral and Mental Health Needs
• Resources for Responding to Communities Affected by Hurricane Ida – NCTSN
• Step Forward 2021 Report to the Community
• Child & Family Development Research – Fiscal Year 2020 (released 2021)
• Inspired by ‘Youth Stories,’ a Bill of Rights for Foster Kids is Now Louisiana Law
• Family Matters: Multigenerational Living Is on the Rise and Here to Stay
• 2021 Annie E. Casey KIDSCOUNT Data Book Released
• Meaningful Engagement of the Legal and Judicial System for Child Welfare Workers
• ALICE Report 2020 – A Study of Financial Hardship in Louisiana
• Louisiana Child in Need of Care (CINC) Flowchart
• What Makes a QPI Site Successful?
• Child Safety Powerpoint
• Save Our Education Now: An Emergency COVID-19 Education Plan to Get the Poorest and Most Marginalised Children Safely Back to School and Learning
• The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures.
• A Five-Year Analysis of Child Trafficking in the United States: Exploring Case Characteristics and Outcomes to Inform Child Welfare System Response.
• Examining the Link: Foster Care Runaway Episodes and Human Trafficking
• Supporting Families of Color: How Racial and Complex Trauma Affect Parents of Color Navigating Family Court During the Time of COVID and Beyond
• Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse Considerations During COVID-19
• Study Explores Role of Traditional Parenting Class in Strengthening Native American Families
• Who Cares: A National Count of Foster Homes and Families
• Children and COVID-19: State Data Report. A Joint Report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association: Summary of Publicly Reported Data from 49 states, NYC, DC, PR, and GU. Version: 10/01/2020
• Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020
• Missing Child Clearinghouses [Webpage].
• State of Grandfamilies 2020: Facing a Pandemic: Grandfamilies Living Together During COVID-19 and Thriving Beyond.
• Funding First Nations Child and Family Services (FNCFS): A Performance Budget Approach to Well-Being
• In Focus Fact Sheet: Child Protection Law Enforcement
• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
• Suicide Looms Large in Minds of Many Foster Youth
• Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention in Fatherhood Programs
• Educational Supports for Youth in Foster Care
• Drug Misuse: Sustained National Efforts Are Necessary for Prevention, Response, and Recovery: [A Report to the Congress]: GAO Highlights
• Crimes Against Children/Online Predators [Webpage]
• Handwashing: Clean Hands Save Lives
• The Importance of a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System
• How can child protection agencies identify and support youth involved in or at risk of commercial child sexual exploitation?
• A New Deal for Transition Age Foster Youth in California: A Policy Roadmap for Ensuring a Resilient Recovery after COVID-19
• Truly Universal: Overcoming Barriers to School Choice for Youth in Foster Care.
• One Adoptive Mom Chooses Love and Acceptance
• Making an Emergency Plan with Youth in Congregate Care in California: A Toolkit for Dependency Attorneys, Youth Providers, and Advocates
• Care4Kids Program
• Educators & Healthcare Workers are the Leading Reporters of Child Abuse
• Sexual- and Gender-Minority Families: A 2010 to 2020 Decade in Review
• To Leave Racist Roots Behind, Child Welfare Needs a Great Reimagining
• Editorial: State needs to continue to improve foster care
• Gov. DeSantis signs DCF Accountability Act
• Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislative, Legal, and Public Opinion Strategies that Work
• Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act
• Report to the Louisiana Legislature – Relative To Human Trafficking,Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
• Pretesting a Human Trafficking Screening Tool in the Child Welfare and Runaway and Homeless Youth Systems
• National Human Trafficking Hotline has added 24/7 SMS Texting and Online Chat Services in Both English and Spanish
• Sex Trafficking Survivors, Advocates Weigh In On Backpage.com Closure
• Without Family, U.S. Children in Foster Care Easy Prey for Human Traffickers
• Knowing the Signs of Youth Sex Trafficking
• A Class Divided
• Disparities in Child Welfare: Considering the Implementation of Differential Response
• Juvenile Justice Resource Hub Adds Racial-Ethnic Fairness Section
• National Disproportionate Minority Contact Databook
• OJJDP Releases Updated DMC Fact Sheet-November, 2012
• Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice, & Statistics Website Features Interactive DMC Dashboards
• Why Understanding Racial Bias is Crucial for the Responsible Use of Predictive Analytics
• THE DISPROPORTIONALITY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN IN THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM: SOCIAL WORKER PERCEPTION
• Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood
• 2017 USHRN HUMAN RIGHTS STATUS REPORT COVERS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
• Disability, Race and Reasons: What We Know, and Don’t Know, About Disparity in School Discipline
• Building Strong Foundations: Racial Inequity in Policies that Impact Infants, Toddlers, and Families
• 2012-america-s-children-in-brief-key-national-indicators-of-well-being
• Child Maltreatment Data Tool
• OJJDP Updates Statistical Briefing Book
• Solving the Data Puzzle – Collecting and Sharing Information Between Child Welfare and Education
• The Costs and Economic Impact of Violence Against Children
• Updated Database on Foster Care Placements
• 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book Released
• Kids’ Share 2016: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2015 and Future Projections
• Trust-Based Relational Interventions – Summary of Outcomes in Research
• 2017-kids-count-data-book
• Relative Caregiving Facts FFY 2014: Louisiana
• America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2017
• Child Abuse Deaths Rise – Child Maltreatment Report 2016
• Complex Trauma Standardized Measures
• State-level data for understanding child welfare in the United States
• CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES REVIEWS: How Judges, Court Administrators and Attorneys Should Be Involved
• Models for Change
• Birth Parents with Trauma Histories and the Child Welfare System: A Guide for Judges and Attorneys
• Solving the Data Puzzle – Collecting and Sharing Information Between Child Welfare and Education
• Recommended Practices to Promote the Safety and Well-Being of LGBTQ Youth and Youth at Risk or Living with HIV in Child Welfare Settings
• Evidence-Based Model Programs – Risk & Protective Factors
• Testifying in Court About Trauma: How to Prepare
• Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit – 2nd Edition (2013)
• A Guide for Father Involvement in Systems of Care
• When Child Welfare Works: A Working Paper
• Designing a Measure: Measuring Social Workers’ Attitudes toward LGBT Youth in Child Welfare
• Use of Medication Prescribed for Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties Among Children Aged 6-17 Years in the United States
• DR Implementation Resource Kit: A Resource for Jurisdictions Considering or Planning for DR
• OJJDP’s Model Programs Guide (MPG)
• A Child Welfare Leader’s Desk Guide to Building a High-Performing Agency
• Toolkit on Mapping Legal, Health and Social Services Responses to Child Maltreatment
• Achieving Excellence: Model Standards for Serving Victims & Survivors of Crime
• Achieving Excellence: Model Standards for Serving Victims & Survivors of Crime
• Toolkit to Support Child Welfare Agencies in Serving LGBTQ Children, Youth, and Families
• Perspectives on Normalcy
• Professionals, Friends, And Confidants: After-School Staff As Social Support To Low-Income Parents
• Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Judicial Bench Book
• Advocacy and Child’s Attorney-Client Relationships during COVID-19: A Tip Sheet
• South Carolina Human Trafficking Task Force 2018 Annual Report
• Congressman Danny K. Davis Guide for Grandfamilies on COVID-19 Stimulus Payments
• System Review 2019-01: Enhanced Response: Restraining and Secluding Children [New Hampshire]
• Plans of Safe Care for Infants With Prenatal Substance Exposure and Their Families
• Preparing Children and Youth for Adoption or Other Family Permanency
• Elements of Family First Shifting Foster Care
• Healthy Boundaries, Healthy Relationships
• Disability Waiver Rate System Family Foster Care Rate Methodology Study Disability Services Division
• Racism and Violence: Using Your Power as a Parent to Support Children Aged Two to Five
• Racism and Violence: Using Your Power as a Parent to Support Children Aged Two to Five
• The Land of Inopportunity: Closing the Childhood Equity Gap for America’s Kids
• The Hardest Places to be a Child: Global Childhood Report 2020. Fourth Annual Save the Children Report
• Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Judicial Bench Book
• The Hardest Places to be a Child: Global Childhood Report 2020. Fourth Annual Save the Children Report.
• Family Processes and Children’s and Adolescents’ Well-Being
• Disability Waiver Rate System Family Foster Care Rate Methodology Study Disability Services Division
• Healthy Boundaries, Healthy Relationships
• Elements of Family First Shifting Foster Care
• Preparing Children and Youth for Adoption or Other Family Permanency
• Plans of Safe Care for Infants With Prenatal Substance Exposure and Their Families
• System Review 2019-01: Enhanced Response: Restraining and Secluding Children [New Hampshire]
• Talking to Children About COVID-19 (Coronavirus): A Parent Resource
• Advocacy and Child’s Attorney-Client Relationships during COVID-19: A Tip Sheet
• South Carolina Human Trafficking Task Force 2019 Annual Report
• Congressman Danny K. Davis Guide for Grandfamilies on COVID-19 Stimulus Payments
• Adult Learning Theory Andragogy of Malcom Knowles
• Developing a Learning Agenda to Help States Evaluate Home Visiting Programs
• Child Maltreatment 2018
• Brain Frames: How Attorneys Can Engage Youth in Case Planning and Court Hearings
• Quick Reference Guide: Federal Laws Supporting Youth in Foster Care Transitioning to Adulthood
• How Adolescent Brain Science Supports Youth Engagement in Court Hearings and Case Planning
• Tool for Engaging the Legal Community in Implementing Family First
• Secondary Traumatic Stress: Understanding the Impact of Trauma Work on Professionals
• Understanding Refugee Trauma: For Child Welfare
• NCTSN Impact Newsletter: Winter 2019
• NCTSN Bench Card for Juvenile Court Judges: Newcomer Immigrant Youth in Juvenile Justice Court Proceedings – A Trauma-Informed Approach
• Reasonable Efforts as Prevention