Sentences with phrase «child welfare professionals»

This national organization provides additional resources and education for child welfare professionals engaged in this area of work.

This section is intended to help child welfare professionals stay abreast of current science, policy, practice, and systemic efforts to enhance child, youth, and family well - being.

Provides resources to increase the capacity of child welfare professionals working in rural communities.

Provides child welfare professionals with a brief overview of forensic interviewing so they can better understand how such interviews affect their practice with children and families.

Provides resources to increase the capacity of child welfare professionals working in rural communities.

Provides parents (birth, foster, and adoptive) and other caregivers with information about the best way to resolve their differences with a service provider or other child welfare professional.

Find resources in this section to help child welfare professionals understand immigration issues and work with immigrant families.

Child welfare professionals across the country work with children, youth, and families from varied backgrounds and communities with their own unique strengths, needs, and challenges.

Child welfare professionals first focus on supporting and stabilizing a family to prevent an initial placement.

Well - Being Helps child welfare professionals stay abreast of current science, policy, practice, and systemic efforts to enhance child, youth, and family well - being.

The resources in this section will help child welfare professionals at all levels serve children and families in rural communities.

Child welfare administrators and supervisors need to focus on the specific professional and personal needs of rural child welfare professionals, which often differ from those of their urban counterparts.

A group of parents and child welfare professionals came together to make sure that adoptive families were getting the services, support and encouragement they needed.

In this five - module course, prevention and child welfare professionals learn about the importance of collaborating and the common language and different terms that each uses.

Resources in this section will help child welfare professionals locate and work with kinship caregivers.

Resources in this section can help child welfare professionals protect children's safety, support families, and help prevent child maltreatment.

Materials you share with us will support knowledge exchange across the country and support the day - to - day work of many child welfare professionals.

No academic requirement, but providers are most often child welfare professionals with human services degrees and knowledge of community resources.

The presenters will discuss experiences in pilot sites, review preliminary findings on training effectiveness for child welfare professionals and supervisors, and discuss when the training will be available to the broader community.

We train child welfare professionals who facilitate Team Decision Making Meetings to support improved placement planning for abused and neglected children.

Provides resources to increase the capacity of child welfare professionals working in rural communities.

The study provides critical information on the extent to which the perceptions of child welfare professionals are consistent with the literature on this issue.

The Family Finding model provides child welfare professionals with training, skills development, and tools for identifying and engaging relatives and other important adults who can support children in state care.

Diana co-created the national program Therapy Animals Supporting Kids (T.A.S.K.), which provides guidance for criminal justice and child welfare professionals on how to effectively incorporate therapy animals without compromising the safety of the children or animals, or negatively affecting a civil or criminal case involving child abuse.

Indian Child Welfare - Homes for Cherokee Kids Cherokee Nation Provides protective and supportive services for Native American families, including information about fostering and adopting, as well as information for child welfare professionals about maintaining compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act.

This bulletin for professionals outlines child welfare professionals» legal responsibility to provide background information to adoptive families about their prospective child or youth.

Resource Family Tip Sheet for Supporting Reunification (PDF - 243 KB) American Bar Association (2017) Provides practical tips for child welfare professionals engaging families in key processes related to reunification.

303: Childhood Mental Health Issues: An Introduction for Child Welfare Professionals Schott & Coyle (2013) Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program Introduces child welfare professionals to the topic of childhood mental health issues and its connection to child welfare and the permanency process.

This bulletin is designed to help child welfare professionals promote kinship care by providing information, referral, and support services to kinship caregivers to ensure the safety, permanency, and well - being of children in their care.

Highlights the importance of understanding the concerns and needs of children and families in rural communities, their strengths and resources, and the cultural sensitivity required of child welfare professionals as they work to achieve safety, permanency, and well - being for rural children.

Touchpoints: Preparing Children for Transitions (PDF - 1,410 KB) Coalition for Children, Youth, and Families (2015) Designed to help caregivers and child welfare professionals prepare youth in foster care for transitioning to a new placement.

Educate child welfare professionals about when and how to intervene directly in a trauma - sensitive manner and through strategic referrals

Dr. Levy and Mr. Orlans have visited Japan every two years for the last decade to teach concepts and skills of treatment and parenting to mental health and child welfare professionals there.

This bulletin summarizes the effects of early trauma on brain development and looks at steps child welfare professionals can take to screen for developmental delays and identify the trauma - affected children and youth in their care.

Questions Every Judge and Lawyer Should Ask About Infants and Toddlers in the Child Welfare System Osofsky, Maze, Lederman, Grace, & Dicker (2002) View Abstract Issues that should be addressed by judges, attorneys, child advocates, and child welfare professionals when making decisions about the placement of infants of toddlers in foster care.

Solution: Working from an anti-oppressive lens encourages child welfare professionals to be mindful of this power and to reflect on how this power can be shared with children, youth, and -LSB-...]

Resource families — which include foster parents, foster - to - adopt families, and kinship caregivers — are critical partners for child welfare professionals because they provide care for children who can not live with their parents, and they can play a supportive role in reunification.

Social Media Use in Child Welfare Chang (2013) Children's Bureau Express, 13 (11) Guides child welfare professionals in developing a social media strategy for dissemination and a security policy.

The Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) received one of these grants to implement the Waterbury Educational Stability Initiative, which provided training on trauma - informed child welfare practice and child traumatic stress to education and child welfare stakeholders, including child welfare professionals, school counselors, parent liaisons, and foster parents.

The current study seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring child welfare professionals» perceptions of the issue of over-representation.

Using Social Media in Recruitment AdoptUSKids Offers resources that can help child welfare professionals decide if their agency is ready to use social media as a tool for recruiting and retaining families, including tips and best practices to get the most out of a Twitter profile or Facebook page.

Public child welfare professionals - those who stay, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 21, 3, pp. 69 - 78.

Fatherhood programs can help child welfare professionals incorporate effective strategies for locating and engaging fathers.

Structured Home Study Evaluations: Perceived Benefits of SAFE Versus Conventional Home Studies Crea, Barth, Chintapalli, & Buchanan Adoption Quarterly, 12 (2), 2009 View Abstract Measures child welfare professionals» perception of the Structured Analysis Family Evaluation home study process that encourages consistent evaluations across workers, agencies, and jurisdictions.

Publications for caseworkers, adoption professionals, and other child welfare professionals covering research, practices, and policies

This section includes resources to help guide child welfare professionals, as well as families and youth, through the permanency process and help ensure safe, stable, and long - lasting outcomes for children.

Working with children, youth, and families in permanency planning Addresses ways in which child welfare professionals can engage various family members in permanency efforts

Placement Stability and Permanency National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment at AdoptUSKids Offers ideas from the field and tools and resources that provide strategies and information related to child - specific recruitment that can help child welfare professionals recruit foster, adoptive, and kinship families for specific children and youth in care.