Each April, during National Child Abuse Prevention Month, we highlight the resilience of families and uplift the vital work being done across the country to keep children safe and families together. In alignment with the Children’s Bureau’s 24th National Conference … Read More
Prevention
Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use Part 2
Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use – a set of resources from Generations United that includes recommendations and resources on five topics identified by kinship caregivers as uniquely challenging for grandfamilies impacted by substance … Read More
Louisiana’s Families in Need of Services
Laws Providing the Right Services to
Children and Families
By Curtis Nelson, Jr. Everyone monitoring news outlets have heard comments that more needs to be done to prevent children from engaging in criminal activity, which, due to their minor status, is referred to as delinquency activity. Concerns about public … Read More
Five Ways to Serve Youth Through the Family First Prevention Services Act
A recent brief from the Center for the Study of Social Policy details five opportunities within the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) of 2018 for states to build a prevention continuum that focuses on healthy adolescent development. The brief also aims … Read More
Family First Prevention Services Act Website
Signed into law on February 9, 2018, as a part of the Bipartisan Budget Act (HR. 1892), Family First includes long-overdue historic reforms to help keep children safely with their families and avoid the traumatic experience of entering foster care. In … Read More
Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention in Fatherhood Programs
This brief is intended to support the efforts of both researchers and father-serving professionals to study, evaluate, and implement practices for use in fatherhood programs to help prevent and address domestic violence (DV). It begins by providing background information on … Read More
Drug Misuse: Sustained National Efforts Are Necessary for Prevention, Response, and Recovery: [A Report to the Congress]: GAO Highlights
This report provides highlights findings from a study that analyzed drug misuse and deaths from overdoses for 2002–2018, reviewed selected empirical studies published from 2014–2019, and compared Government Accountability Office’s (GAO’s) High-Risk list criteria to findings and recommendations in over … Read More
Handwashing: Clean Hands Save Lives
This webpage explains regular handwashing is one of the best ways to remove germs, avoid getting sick, and prevent the spread of germs to others. Links are provided to information on when and how to wash hands, the data behind … Read More
Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act
Public Law 113–183113th CongressAn ActTo prevent and address sex trafficking of children in foster care, to extend and improve adoption incentives, and to improve international child support recovery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of … Read More
OJJDP’s Model Programs Guide (MPG)
This online resource of evidence-based juvenile justice and youth prevention, intervention, and reentry programs, has added three new literature reviews. MPG literature reviews provide practitioners and policymakers with relevant research and evaluations on more than 40 juvenile justice topics and programs. … Read More