Assessing Adult Relatives as Preferred Caregivers in Permanency Planning: A Competency-Based Curriculum This curriculum was developed by the National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning (now the National Resource Center Permanency and Family Connections). It is intended to be … Read More
Child Well-Being
Healthy Boundaries, Healthy Relationships
This session will discuss the rationales and realities of relationship boundary identification and implementation. The goal is to assist families and knowing how to work with families of origin in exploring and developing boundaries. CLICK HERE
COVID-19: Child Welfare Resources
This webpage highlights four resource guides to help State legislators address the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, families, and caseworkers. The resource guides address the following topics: COVID-19 and Child Welfare Caseworkers, COVID-19 and Congregate Care Facilities, … Read More
Disability Waiver Rate System Family Foster Care Rate Methodology Study Disability Services Division
In January 2014, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) implemented the Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS). The DWRS transitioned the State from a variable, county-negotiated rate methodology to a standard, statewide methodology for most disability waiver services. The DWRS … Read More
Family Processes and Children’s and Adolescents’ Well-Being
A study reviewed about 1,150 sources to examine family processes and child well-being. Themes are discussed related to advances made in the literature because of increased attention to complexity and specificity, advances that were made because of increased attention to … Read More
Tags: Adolescents, Child Well-Being
Education During COVID-19: How Child Welfare Agencies Can Help. Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
ABA Center on Children and the Law. 2020 CLICK HERE
Guidelines for Developing Data Sharing Agreements to Use State Administrative Data for Early Care and Education Research
OPRE Research Brief; 2018-67 Shaw, Sara. Lin, Van-Kim. Maxwell, Kelly. Child Trends. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Child Trends 2018 This resource is intended to provide guidance … Read More
Tags: Child Well-Being, Data, Early Care
The Land of Inopportunity: Closing the Childhood Equity Gap for America’s Kids
Where a child grows up can determine their prospects in life more than you might guess. In most states across America, there are stark differences between communities that provide children the childhoods they deserve, and those where childhoods end too … Read More
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The Land of Inopportunity: Closing the Childhood Equity Gap for America’s Kids: U.S. Complement to the Global Childhood Report 2020
Where a child grows up can determine their prospects in life more than you might guess. In most states across America, there are stark differences between communities that provide children the childhoods they deserve, and those where childhoods end too … Read More
Tags: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being
The Hardest Places to be a Child: Global Childhood Report 2020. Fourth Annual Save the Children Report.
For hundreds of millions of children worldwide, childhood has ended too soon. The major reasons include ill-health, malnutrition, exclusion from education, child labor, child marriage, early pregnancy, conflict and extreme violence. This report takes a hard look at these events … Read More
Tags: Child Well-Being