Child Welfare Information Gateway This publication examines State laws and policies regarding the development and implementation of plans of safe care that are required by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to ensure the safety and well-being of infants … Read More
Prevention
Prevention: Implementing Evidence-Based Programs
A recent episode from the Child Welfare Podcast Series focuses on Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention grantees as they share their local and statewide perspectives on how evidence-based programs (EBPs) were selected and tailored to meet the needs of their specific … Read More
Tool for Engaging the Legal Community in Implementing Family First
The Family First Prevention Services Act became law in February 2018 (Pub. L. 115-123, enacted as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018). Family First is a landmark child welfare law that establishes significant changes in how the child … Read More
Reasonable Efforts as Prevention
by Jerry Milner and David Kelly – November 6, 2006 Far too often the wrong examples drive child welfare policy and practice in the United States. We see it time and time again in jurisdictions where there is a child fatality; … Read More