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.
The resources in this section will
help child welfare professionals, as well as those from related fields, to better understand the interplay of child welfare and human trafficking and to develop comprehensive responses that assist victims and potential victims.
Resources in this section can
help child welfare professionals protect children's safety, support families, and help prevent child maltreatment.
Resources for Caseworkers National Indian Child Welfare Association (2018) Provides resources to
help child welfare professionals understand the legal and cultural issues involved in partnering with Tribes.
Resources in this section provide information about and skills for working with diverse populations to
help child welfare professionals engage families, make appropriate case decisions, improve outcomes, and serve the best interests of children, youth, and families.
Find resources in this section to
help child welfare professionals understand immigration issues and work with immigrant families.
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.
Traumatic Experiences Sesame Street in Communities Provides activities and resources designed to
help child welfare professionals and parents help children address and heal prior traumatic experiences.
Created by the Family Connections Project through Adoptions Unlimited, Inc., this course will
help child welfare professionals:
Helps 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.
Well - Being
Helps child welfare professionals stay abreast of current science, policy, practice, and systemic efforts to enhance child, youth, and family well - being.
Not exact matches
It was written primarily to
help child welfare caseworkers and other
professionals who work with at - risk families make more informed decisions about when to refer parents and caregivers, along with their
children, to PCIT programs.
Connecting
child welfare and related
professionals to comprehensive resources to
help protect
children & strengthen families.
The PPA will
help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting
children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus,
professional health and
child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.
Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent
child abuse and neglect by
helping child welfare and early education
professionals enhance protective factors in
children, youth, and families.
Helps child welfare and adoption
professionals expand their cultural competence and skills when working with LGBTQ individuals and same - sex couples.
Child Welfare Practice Capacity Building Center for Tribes Provides resources to help build the capacity of Tribal communities and professionals to address child welfare is
Child Welfare Practice Capacity Building Center for Tribes Provides resources to
help build the capacity of Tribal communities and
professionals to address
child welfare is
child welfare issues.
Connecting
child welfare and related
professionals to comprehensive resources to
help protect
children & strengthen families.
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.
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.
Kinship Care (PDF - 55 KB) National Resource Center for Family - Centered Practice & Permanency Planning (2009) Presents a toolkit to
help professionals find permanent kinship placements for
children in the
child welfare system.
Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent
child abuse and neglect by
helping child welfare and early education
professionals enhance protective factors in
children, youth, and families.
Removing Barriers to Everyday Experiences: Normalcy and Foster Care Annie E. Casey Foundation (2013) Offers practical guidance for States,
child welfare professionals, and foster parents to
help provide normalcy to
children and youth in out - of - home care.
A neutral facilitator, who is a mental health
professional or mediator,
helps the clients focus on their interests, such as the
welfare of clients»
children, continued relationships with each other's family members, or financial stability.
The material used as the basis of this course explores the characteristics and benefits of PCIT to
help child welfare caseworkers, other
professionals who work with at - risk families, and caregivers make more informed decisions about family participation in PCIT programs.
Child welfare professionals should ensure that foster parents or other primary caregivers receive ongoing training on how to
help teens develop life skills, including experiential learning related to budgeting, cooking, cleaning, shopping, and more.
Created by the Family Connections Project through Adoptions Unlimited, Inc., this course is designed to advise
child welfare professionals on
helping youth maintain contact with birth families and past connections.
Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well - being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals to information and resources that help them address the needs of children and families in their communi
Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well - being of
children and families by connecting
child welfare, adoption, and related professionals to information and resources that help them address the needs of children and families in their communi
child welfare, adoption, and related
professionals to information and resources that
help them address the needs of
children and families in their communities.
This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and
child welfare and residential treatment
professionals a detailed understanding of how Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is used to
help children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and
child.
The material on which this course is based explores the characteristics and benefits of TF - CBT to
help child welfare caseworkers and other
professionals who work with at - risk families make more informed decisions about when to refer
children and their caregivers to TF - CBT programs.
Trauma Informed Training Series This four part training series provides mental health and
child welfare practitioners and administrators with trauma informed training to
help professionals impacted by or working with populations touched by trauma.
The
Child Welfare Information Gateway recently released a bulletin designed to help child welfare and adoption professionals expand their cultural competence and build their skills for working effectively and fairly with LGBT families as prospective adoptive par
Child Welfare Information Gateway recently released a bulletin designed to
help child welfare and adoption professionals expand their cultural competence and build their skills for working effectively and fairly with LGBT families as prospective adoptive par
child welfare and adoption
professionals expand their cultural competence and build their skills for working effectively and fairly with LGBT families as prospective adoptive parents.
Child Welfare Information Gateway The Child Welfare Information Gateway's mission is to provide Child Welfare professionals with information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out - of - home care, adoption, and more to help strengthen and support children and their fami
Child Welfare Information Gateway The
Child Welfare Information Gateway's mission is to provide Child Welfare professionals with information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out - of - home care, adoption, and more to help strengthen and support children and their fami
Child Welfare Information Gateway's mission is to provide
Child Welfare professionals with information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out - of - home care, adoption, and more to help strengthen and support children and their fami
Child Welfare professionals with information, resources, and tools covering topics on
child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out - of - home care, adoption, and more to help strengthen and support children and their fami
child welfare,
child abuse and neglect, out - of - home care, adoption, and more to help strengthen and support children and their fami
child abuse and neglect, out - of - home care, adoption, and more to
help strengthen and support
children and their families.
Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to timely, practical resources that help child welfare, adoption, and related professionals protect children and strengthen fami
Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to timely, practical resources that
help child welfare, adoption, and related professionals protect children and strengthen fami
child welfare, adoption, and related
professionals protect
children and strengthen families.
It was written primarily to
help child welfare caseworkers and other
professionals who work with at - risk families make more informed decisions about when to refer parents and caregivers, along with their
children, to PCIT programs.