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.
This factsheet
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 child welfare professionals with a framework for how to talk with older youth about permanency, including key considerations and suggestions for starting a conversation as well as ways to make these discussions more effective and meaningful.
This tip sheet
provides child welfare professionals with a framework for how to talk with older youth about permanency, including key considerations and suggestions for starting a conversation as well as ways to make these discussions more effective and meaningful.
This webinar will
provide child welfare professionals with an overview of parent partner programs and explore how these programs benefit parents and children and ultimately support reunification.
Not exact matches
Children Awaiting Parents
provides training services for parents and
child welfare professionals that include recruitment and retention of adoptive families, how to navigate the education system, managing adolescent behavior techniques and how to advocate for special needs services.
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.
Provides health - care
professionals — including pediatricians, family practice providers, hospital nurses, school nurses, urgent care clinicians, and other health - care
professionals — with an overview of the field of
child welfare and suggests ways that health - care
professionals and
child welfare workers can work together to promote better outcomes for
children and families involved with
child welfare, including
children in foster care.
Provides resources to increase the capacity of
child welfare professionals working in rural communities.
The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Military
Child Initiative assists public schools to improve the quality of education for highly mobile and vulnerable young people with a special focus on military children and their families by providing national, state and local education agencies, as well as schools, parents and health, child welfare, juvenile justice and educational professionals with information, tools and services that enhance school suc
Child Initiative assists public schools to improve the quality of education for highly mobile and vulnerable young people with a special focus on military
children and their families by
providing national, state and local education agencies, as well as schools, parents and health,
child welfare, juvenile justice and educational professionals with information, tools and services that enhance school suc
child welfare, juvenile justice and educational
professionals with information, tools and services that enhance school success.
Provides resources to increase the capacity of
child welfare professionals working in rural communities.
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.
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
child welfare workforce includes those employed in either the public or private sector to
provide professional services to
children and families who are engaged in
child abuse prevention programs,
child protective services, out - of - home care, adoption, or otherwise served by the
child welfare system.
This national organization
provides additional resources and education for
child welfare professionals engaged in this area of work.
Provides resources for increasing positive working relationships between
child welfare professionals, birth parents, and foster parents.
This bulletin for
professionals outlines
child welfare professionals» legal responsibility to
provide background information to adoptive families about their prospective
child or youth.
Educational offerings will be
provided for home visitors, family support workers, parent educators, parent leaders, mental health specialists, medical
professionals, school social workers, kinship and foster parents,
child welfare and human services
professionals, public health practitioners, early childhood development specialists and teachers, early interventionists, law enforcement, and community advocates.
ducational offerings will be
provided for home visitors, family support workers, parent educators, parent leaders, mental health specialists, medical
professionals, school social workers, kinship and foster parents,
child welfare and human services
professionals, public health practitioners, early childhood development specialists and teachers, early interventionists, law enforcement, and community advocates.
Provides an overview of basic
child welfare services, describes how domestic violence (DV) services and
child welfare (CW)
professionals can support one another's efforts in working with families, and lists resources for more information.
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.
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 Tr
Child Welfare Association (2018)
Provides resources to help
child welfare professionals understand the legal and cultural issues involved in partnering with Tr
child welfare professionals understand the legal and cultural issues involved in partnering with Tribes.
The clearinghouse
provides a searchable database of programs that can be utilized by
professionals that serve
children and families receiving
child welfare services.
Child welfare and other related
professionals should understand the connections between these two topics, know how to screen and assess for both substance use and mental health issues, and
provide referrals to the appropriate supports and services, including State and local examples.
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
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
child welfare professionals about maintaining compliance with the Indian
Child Welfare
Child Welfare Act.
Kinship Care: Model of Practice (PDF - 41 KB)
Child Welfare League of America Provides best practice guidelines for child welfare professionals working with kinship fami
Child Welfare League of America
Provides best practice guidelines for
child welfare professionals working with kinship fami
child welfare professionals working with kinship families.
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.
NCSACW is a national resource center
providing information, expert consultation, training and technical assistance to
child welfare, dependency court and substance abuse treatment
professionals to improve the safety, permanency, well - being and recovery outcomes for
children, parents and families.
This bulletin
provides child welfare workers and related
professionals with information on the intersection of substance use disorders and
child maltreatment and describes strategies for prevention, intervention, and treatment, including examples of effective programs and practices.
This guide
provides an overview of basic
child welfare services, describes how domestic violence services and
child welfare professionals can support one another's efforts in working with families, and lists resources for more information.
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.
Child welfare professionals must take precautions when
providing service to families experiencing domestic violence.
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.
This brief guide
provides an overview of
child welfare, describes how behavioral health / mental health
professionals and
child welfare workers can support one another's efforts, and lists resources for more information.
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.
When
children in out - of - home care can not be safely returned home to their parents,
child welfare professionals first look to relatives (also known as kin) to
provide temporary care and, if needed, a permanent family for them.
For
Professionals This workshop is designed for child welfare professionals who conduct home studies and who provide preparation and education for prospec
Professionals This workshop is designed for
child welfare professionals who conduct home studies and who provide preparation and education for prospec
professionals who conduct home studies and who
provide preparation and education for prospective parents.
Links to State publications that describe
child welfare services and
provide guidance to
professionals and families.
The Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) developed the TAC based on its extensive experience in
providing pre - and post-adoption counseling and educational services to families, educators,
child welfare staff and mental health providers in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Washington D.C. C.A.S.E. also serves as a national resource for foster / adoptive families and
professionals through its training, publications, and consultations.
Working in partnership with
child welfare professionals and the community, our purpose is to support, educate, empower and
provide a unified voice for Arizona's foster and adoptive families, with the goal of increasing the well - being and stability of Arizona's most vulnerable
children.
This presentation will include discussion of the importance of adoption - competency and
provide an overview and demonstration of a free web - based training for
child welfare and mental health
professionals.
Children Awaiting Parents
provides training services for parents and
child welfare professionals that include recruitment and retention of adoptive families, how to navigate the education system, managing adolescent behavior techniques and how to advocate for special needs services.
$ 45.00 — This book is an essential resource for mental health
professionals and
child welfare advocates,
providing readers with an understanding of how trauma...
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.
FACS works to safeguard and protect the rights,
welfare and interests of
children being adopted, while
providing applicants with a
professional adoption service.
The Institute
provides over 250 days of training each year to
professionals and families, including foster and adoptive families, in the area of
child welfare.
Objective # 1:
Provide training to judicial, legal, mental health,
child welfare, and early childhood
professionals on the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers, infant mental health, historical trauma, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, childhood sexual abuse and other issues of concern to the Court Teams.
State Guides & Manuals Search Links to State publications that describe
child welfare services and
provide guidance to
professionals and families.
For over two decades the PRIDE Model of Practice has increased opportunities for
child welfare agencies to
provide a standardized, consistent, structured framework for the competency - based recruitment, preparation, assessment, selection, of foster and adoptive (resource) parents, and for foster parent in - service training and ongoing
professional development.
FamilyForward
provides psychoeducation for
professionals working in school districts,
child welfare agencies, and the legal field.