Judicial ​Resources

• Final Rule & Kin-Specific Foster Home Approval Standards: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Fostering the Future for American Children and Families
• Louisiana DCFS Strategic Plan
• The Importance of Healthy Workplaces for Young People with Systems Experience
• Child Poverty Nearly Triples to 13% Over Three Years
• Child Welfare Intelligence? Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Child Protective Services Arena
• Infographic: Connections Between the Court Improvement Program and the Child and Family Services Review
• Safe Haven Annual Report February 2025
• Kinship Legal Toolkit
• Military Families and the Courts – Bench Card Resource Packet
• Catalog of Core Child Welfare Case Management Reports for Courts 2024
• Trauma-Informed Courtroom Practices: A Bench Card for Judges
• Building Coalitions For Community-Led Change
• Journey to Success – Foster Care Independence Act
• High Turnover Exacerbates Staffing Needs at Louisiana’s Child Welfare Agency, Audit Finds
• State Supreme Court Mandates Domestic Violence Training For All Louisiana Judges
• LDH Launches Project M.O.M. With New Director, Website, and Detailed Roadmap
• HALOS Kinship Navigator Program Final Evaluation Report
• Young People With Lived Experience in Foster Care Recommend Improvements to Mental Health Supports
• Judge’s Action Alert: Using the Family First Prevention Services Act to Strengthen Reasonable Efforts Determinations
• Children’s Rate of Entry Into Foster Care Has Declined Over Time
• Keeping Children Safe with Families
• Judge’s Action Alert: Using the Family First Prevention Services Act to Strengthen Reasonable Efforts Determinations
• How Are Some Jurisdictions Transforming Mandated Reporting?
• What Happens to Youth Aging Out of Foster Care?
• What is Emerging Adult Justice?
• Transforming Juvenile Justice Through Strategic Financing
• A Landscape Scan of Research on the K-12 Education of Young People in the United States Who Experience Foster Care, Incarceration, and/or Homelessness
• Federal Update: Summary of New Federal Joint Guidance to Support Students in Foster Care
• Supporting America’s Children and Families Act
• Settled Law: The Role of State Court Judges in Making Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) Judicial Determinations
• An Overview and Panel Discussion of the Multi-Systems Integration Pilot Program
• Child & Family Services Review Process
• Leveraging Economic and Health Policies to Prevent Infant and Toddler Maltreatment: A State Policy Toolkit
• Ensuring Educational Stability and Success for Students in Foster Care
• Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice System Involvement
• NSCAW III Baseline Report (2017-2022): Child and Family Involvement with the Child Welfare System
• A Prevention-Focused, Multisystem Framework to Help Families Meet Their Needs
• Applying Insights From Human Connection and Co-Regulation to Support Fathers
• Spotlight on Intersection of Child Welfare and Family Violence
• When Forced Marriage and Human Trafficking Intersect
• An Approach to Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting in Cases of Questionable Confessions
• Audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Handling of Tips of Hands-on Sex Offenses Against Children
• Coordinating Integrated Prevention Approaches to Serve the Whole Person
• Case Studies in Supporting Prevention Through Human Services Program Integration
• KIDS IN CARE: Unaccompanied Children in Federal Government Custody
• Feds Clarify Rules on Family First Act, Background Checks, Tribal Child Welfare
• Modernizing Minor Guardianship in State Courts
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• Children in Residential Treatment Facilities Face Multiple Risks: Senate Report
• Improving Timely Health Care for Children and Youth in Foster Care Driver Diagram and Change Ideas
• Supporting Timely and Successful Reunifications
• The Role of Parent Partner Programs in Supporting Prevention and Reunification
• The Importance of Father Engagement in Family-Centered Reunification
• Transracial Adoption Conversations (T.R.A.C.) Coaching: Engaging Transracial Adoptive Caregivers in Conversations on Race and Meeting Children’s Racial Identity Needs Over the Lifespan
• Analysis From a State-by-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies
• QIC-EY NOW Clips and Tips
• How Can You Not Drive? YOU CAN! DRIVE!
• Supporting Foster Youth and Their Family Connections: Policy and Practice Recommendations
• Learn The Basics Of Juvenile Justice
• Determining the Best Interests of the Child
• Survivor-Informed Services Among Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs
• Game-changing’ Emergency Housing Vouchers to Help Foster Children, Families in Jefferson Parish
• How Should Clinicians Minimize Bias When Responding to Suspicions About Child Abuse?
• Exploring the Effects of Maltreatment and Child Welfare System Experiences on Juvenile Justice Involvement
• Promising Practice: Pre-Arraignment Diversion for Emerging Adults
• Economic Empowerment for People Who Have Experienced Human Trafficking: A Guide for Anti-Trafficking Service Providers
• Factors That Predict The Safe Recovery Of Missing And Abducted Children
• Why Youth Incarceration Fails: An Updated Review of the Evidence
• Judicial, Court, and Attorney Measures of Performance (JCAMP): Quick Start Guide
• MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT IN THE COURTROOM
• FAMILY JUSTICE JOURNAL: The Need For Belonging
• What’s the Difference Between Equity and Equality?
• Trauma-Focused Practice Supplement for the Crossover Youth Practice Model
• Supporting High-Needs Youth at Home and in the Community: Implementation of Youth Advocate Programs, Inc.’s Core Model in Six Jurisdictions Across the United States
• White House Announces Slate of Actions on Child Welfare
• Louisiana Names New Watchdog for Children
• Indian Child Welfare (ICW)Quarterly and Annual Report
• Live Streaming and Virtual Child Sex Trafficking
• Youth Detention and the Pandemic
• Restrictions on Food Stamps Will Be Lifted For Former Foster Youth
• The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact
• Aged Out How We’re Failing Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
• Respect is Just a Minimum’ Program Concludes with Graduation Ceremony
• Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care
• Child and family outcomes of the Safe Babies Court Team – A scoping review
• Four Ways That Courts Can Actively Engage Children and Youth Involved in Child Welfare Proceedings
• Immunity for Persons Who Report Child Abuse and Neglect
• The Racial Justice Organization Assessment Tools for Court
• Mental Health Emergency Response
• Highlights from a special issue of Family Court Review
• Four Ways That Courts Can Actively Engage Children and Youth Involved in Child Welfare Proceedings.
• Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency
• Administration to Toughen Enforcement of Child Labor Laws as Cases Mount
• Four Ways to Better Support Young Adults Transitioning out of Foster Care
• Introducing the Reasonable Efforts Findings Study
• New Grandfamilies and Kinship Support Network Formed
• Human Trafficking and Child Welfare:
  Scope of Agency Authority
• FY 2021 Report to the Committees on the Judiciary on the Study of Investigative Factors Related to Online Child Exploitation Report
• Children in Today’s Courtroom
• Court Appointed Special Advocates: Becoming the “Chance” for Louisiana’s Youth
• Sharing and Accessing Administrative Data: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from the Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages Project
• Current Events: What is the Indian Child Welfare Act at the center of a new Supreme Court case?
• Child Protection: Dependency Courts
• Welcoming, Affirming, Supporting: Child Welfare Systems Must Honor the WHOLE Child
• Recommendations for Child Welfare System Support from Youth Currently and Formerly in Foster Care
• Court Jurisdiction and Venue for Adoption Petitions
• Prevention Mindset Institute: Embracing Prevention Across Systems
• Trauma-Informed Youth Transitions in Tribal Child Welfare
• Child Safety Guide – Bench Cards
• My Community Cares – Transforming Child Welfare Systems
• Native American Heritage Month – ICWA
• Safety Guide: A Guide for Judges and Attorneys
• NEW Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTPs) Louisiana Judicial Toolkit
• How Legal Professionals Can Use the Compendium of Measures and Data Sources: Understanding Judicial Decision-Making and Hearing Quality in Child Welfare
• Conceptual Model of Judicial Decision-Making and Hearing Quality in Child Welfare
• Compendium of Measures and Data Sources: Understanding Judicial Decision-Making and Hearing Quality in Child Welfare
• Determining the Best Interests of the Child
• Why Relative Placement Is Best for a Child in Need of Care
• In-Home Services to Strengthen Children and Families
• Five Ways to Serve Youth Through the Family First Prevention Services Act
• What You Need to Know About Child in Need of Care Cases in Louisiana (Quick Guide)
• Family First Prevention Services Act: Implementing the Provisions that Support Kinship Families
• Child Welfare Court Cases Involving Prenatal Substance Use: Policy Considerations
• How Judges Can Support Family Reunification through Parent–Resource Parent Partnerships
• Opioids and the Courts- Difficult Conversations
• Using a Trauma-Informed Approach With Parents of Color in Family Court
• Family First Planning & Readiness Toolkit
• Family First Prevention Services Act Website
• NCJFCJ Bench Card Resource Center
• Supporting School Stability for Children in Foster Care during COVID-19 and Beyond
• Supporting Remote Family Time During the Pandemic and Beyond: The Judge’s Role
• Seeing What’s Underneath: A Resource for Understanding Behavior and Using Language in Juvenile Court
• 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
• Child Safety Powerpoint
• Louisiana CINC Benchbook
• COVID-19 Workforce Needs Assessment (WNA): Cross-Site Report for Workforce Excellence Public Child Welfare Sites
• Systemic Approaches to Addressing Child and Family Trauma are Key to Fully Leveraging Family First
• DR Implementation Resource Kit: A Resource for Jurisdictions Considering or Planning for DR
• Reasonable Efforts as Prevention