To raise awareness around National Social Work Month, the Children’s Bureau Learning & Coordination Center (CBLCC) has developed several captivating social media messages. Help us build awareness and engage the public! Download these resources (right-click, then “Save image as…”) to … Read More
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Social Media Gallery for Developmental Disabilities and Delays
To raise awareness around Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, the Children’s Bureau Learning & Coordination Center (CBLCC) has developed several captivating social media messages. Help to build awareness and engage the public! Download these resources (right-click, then “Save image as…”) to … Read More
Tools That Teach: What is Human Trafficking?
The Blue Campaign infographic resources will help you to answer the question, “What is Human Trafficking?” Please help to bring this crime out of the shadows by sharing these materials on social media. WATCH VIDEO
Barriers to Authentic Youth Engagement in Permanency Planning
The Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency (QIC-EY) is a cooperative agreement, funded by the Children’s Bureau, which is charged with advancing child welfare programs and practice to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare … Read More
Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency
Guided by four principles rooted in partnership, respect, equity, and holistic permanency, the Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency (QIC-EY) is seeking to redefine what it means to authentically engage children and youth in child welfare systems, particularly regarding … Read More
Webinar Features Intentional Approaches for Partnering With Individuals With Lived Experience in an Agency Setting
AdoptUSKids hosted a webinar, “Peer Support Matters: Strategies to Incorporate and Elevate Those With Lived Experience in Your Support of Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families,” that provides strategies for agencies to intentionally include those with lived experience into their support programs. The … Read More
Healthy Sexuality for Youth in Foster Care: Tip Sheet
Partnering with Youth to Promote Their Health and Safety Parents and caregivers play an important role in keeping youth in foster care safe by promoting healthy behaviors. Research suggests a lack of parental monitoring is linked to a range of … Read More
Data on Families With Low Incomes Across America Can Inform Two-Generation Approaches
Recent research documents substantial declines in the United States’ poverty rate over the past several decades, including among children. This is very good news that showcases the success of many poverty prevention efforts. However, too many families continue to struggle to meet their … Read More
DCFS hires more than 300 child welfare division employees
The Department of Children and Family Services has hired 326 full-time workers since July, which increases their staff to 3,589. The agency has been under fire after several high-profile child death cases. DCFS Secretary Terri Ricks said while she’s pleased, … Read More
Child Welfare: HHS Is Taking Steps to Help States Support Relative Caregivers with Evidence-Based Programs
When parents can’t care for their children, relatives often step in as caregivers. To help these caregivers, states can access federal matching funds if they operate programs Health and Human Services determines to be evidence based. This requires states to … Read More