The Center for States supports
public child welfare agencies in effectively initiating and sustaining change and innovation to achieve improved system, organizational, and program performance.
Another small, qualitative study involved interviews with nine caseworkers and several child welfare administrators working in three different
public child welfare agencies in the Washington D.C. region.18 Although the small number of participants and the regional focus of this research limit our ability to generalize about these findings, they do offer some insights into the reunification decision - making process.
The Adoption Exchange features photo listings of children available for adoption, as well as adoptive families waiting for placement, for the purpose of assisting
public child welfare agencies in achieving permanency for children in foster care.
Not exact matches
As part of the revised selection plan, the team asked the
public child welfare agencies to identify and include local private and non-profit
child welfare - serving
agencies (partner
agencies)
in on - site discussions so that their perspective could be included and their practices explored.
In the end, the team decided to select nine public child welfare agencies from the initial list, including an agency in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, California, Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, and two agencies in Minnesot
In the end, the team decided to select nine
public child welfare agencies from the initial list, including an
agency in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, California, Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, and two agencies in Minnesot
in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, California, Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, and two
agencies in Minnesot
in Minnesota.
The findings presented
in this study suggest that, despite the challenges it faces and the factors that are outside of its control, there are several factors that
public child welfare agencies can address to improve
child welfare practice and the delivery of services to
children and families, including families of color.
These included
agencies that held contracts with the
public child welfare agency or were serving minority
children and families
in the same service area as the
public agency.
The nature and extent to which the
agency collaborated with other
agencies to provide services to
children and families of color, specifically
in relation to
public child welfare agencies
In some instances, your placement may be supervised by the
public child welfare agency, and you may be asked to become certified as a foster parent prior to finalization.
Family foster care is increasingly and commonly used
in the USA for young people who come to the attention of the
child welfare system
in private as well as
public agency settings.
Sharing the Baton, Not Passing It: Collaboration Between
Public and Private
Child Welfare Agencies to Reunify Families Spath, Werrbach, & Pine Journal of Community Practice, 16 (4), 2008 View Abstract Presents results from a study of a partnership of two State child welfare agencies and a private child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose children have been removed and placed in foster
Child Welfare Agencies to Reunify Families Spath, Werrbach, & Pine Journal of Community Practice, 16 (4), 2008 View Abstract Presents results from a study of a partnership of two State child welfare agencies and a private child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose children have been removed and placed in fost
Agencies to Reunify Families Spath, Werrbach, & Pine Journal of Community Practice, 16 (4), 2008 View Abstract Presents results from a study of a partnership of two State
child welfare agencies and a private child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose children have been removed and placed in foster
child welfare agencies and a private child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose children have been removed and placed in fost
agencies and a private
child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose children have been removed and placed in foster
child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose
children have been removed and placed
in foster care.
Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) A national data collection and analysis system that collects case level information on all
children in foster care for whom State
child welfare agencies have responsibility for placement, care or supervision, and on
children who are adopted under the auspices of the State's
public child welfare agency.
Collaboration Between TANF and
Child Welfare to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes Discretionary Grant Cluster Child Welfare Information Gateway Discusses projects funded that demonstrate models of effective collaboration between public assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child welfare agencies that will improve outcomes for children and youth who are in, or are at risk of entering, the child welfare sy
Child Welfare to Improve
Child Welfare Outcomes Discretionary Grant Cluster Child Welfare Information Gateway Discusses projects funded that demonstrate models of effective collaboration between public assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child welfare agencies that will improve outcomes for children and youth who are in, or are at risk of entering, the child welfare sy
Child Welfare Outcomes Discretionary Grant Cluster
Child Welfare Information Gateway Discusses projects funded that demonstrate models of effective collaboration between public assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child welfare agencies that will improve outcomes for children and youth who are in, or are at risk of entering, the child welfare sy
Child Welfare Information Gateway Discusses projects funded that demonstrate models of effective collaboration between
public assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and
child welfare agencies that will improve outcomes for children and youth who are in, or are at risk of entering, the child welfare sy
child welfare agencies that will improve outcomes for
children and youth who are
in, or are at risk of entering, the
child welfare sy
child welfare system.
Join Hands for
Children Outcome Advisory Committee Recommendations for Domains and Indicators used to Measure Outcomes (PDF - 27 KB) Join Hands for
Children (2010) Provides measurements to evaluate the performance of
public and private
child welfare agencies in Washington State
in the areas of
child safety, permanency, stability, and well - being.
Improving
Public Child Welfare Agency Performance in the Context of the Federal Child and Family Services Reviews (PDF - 924 KB) Orlebeke, Wulczyn, & Mitchell - Herzfeld (2005) Describes the pilot of a program used in New York to build a set of outcomes, corresponding measures, and monitoring reports for local child welfare agen
Child Welfare Agency Performance
in the Context of the Federal
Child and Family Services Reviews (PDF - 924 KB) Orlebeke, Wulczyn, & Mitchell - Herzfeld (2005) Describes the pilot of a program used in New York to build a set of outcomes, corresponding measures, and monitoring reports for local child welfare agen
Child and Family Services Reviews (PDF - 924 KB) Orlebeke, Wulczyn, & Mitchell - Herzfeld (2005) Describes the pilot of a program used
in New York to build a set of outcomes, corresponding measures, and monitoring reports for local
child welfare agen
child welfare agencies.
Family reunification
in law, policy, and practice Family reunification can be viewed from multiple perspectives, such as the body of law that delineates parental rights and the implications of the law on
public policy, the practices and decision - making processes
child welfare agencies engage
in when deciding whether to return
children to their birth parents, and
child and family factors that may affect the possibility of successful reunification.
The
child being adopted must have special needs as defined
in federal and state regulations and must be adopted from a Colorado
public child welfare agency or a licensed private, non-profit
child placement
agency.
Our psychotherapists have presented workshops for the Cook County Juvenile Court Judges; Cook County
Public Guardians; Kane County CASA workers; teachers of the Rockford, Illinois Early Childhood School District; NAEYC conferences; psychotherapists and parents at
child welfare agencies; the Linzi Counseling Center
in Shanghai, China, and many other locations.
These include partners
in education, early
child care,
child welfare and family support,
public health, mental health and substance abuse, law enforcement, the courts, youth serving
agencies, and state and local governments.
Development and Implementation of a Cultured Competency - Based Training Curriculum to Strengthen the Capacity of
Child Protection / Child Welfare Agency Staff in a Collaborative Process Wilber (2001) View Abstract Examines a training program to improve collaboration between Indian child welfare agencies and public child welfare agencies serving American Indian fami
Child Protection /
Child Welfare Agency Staff in a Collaborative Process Wilber (2001) View Abstract Examines a training program to improve collaboration between Indian child welfare agencies and public child welfare agencies serving American Indian fami
Child Welfare Agency Staff
in a Collaborative Process Wilber (2001) View Abstract Examines a training program to improve collaboration between Indian
child welfare agencies and public child welfare agencies serving American Indian fami
child welfare agencies and
public child welfare agencies serving American Indian fami
child welfare agencies serving American Indian families.
Many county
child welfare agencies in California have developed home visiting programs
in partnership with their
public health
agencies with support from their First Five Commissions.
FUP eligible families are families that the
public child welfare agency has certified as families for whom the lack of adequate housing is a primary factor
in the imminent placement of the family's
child, or
children,
in out - of - home care, or the delay of discharge of a
child, or
children, to the family from out - of - home care and that the PHA has determined is eligible for a Housing Choice Voucher.
The goals for the Center for States include to build capacity for increased effectiveness of
public child welfare agencies through strong national expertise
in child welfare and change management to help build and / or sustain the ability of
agencies to perform well; to work
in partnership with the Centers for Tribes and Courts to support States and other jurisdictions across the country; to create new and lasting partnerships with States, jurisdictions, Tribes, courts, and the
Children's Bureau's Regional Office staff that reflect a shared focus on meeting the unique and individual needs of States and jurisdictions; to use a collaborative and systematic approach to build State and territory capacities across the five domains of resources; infrastructure; knowledge and skills; culture and climate; engagement and partnership.
In an age of increasing awareness around mental health, and an increasing number of campaigns bringing the discussion of mental health into the
public domain, it is alarming that parental alienation is so mismanaged and underestimated by the various government
agencies that are supposed to be working for the
welfare and safeguarding of our nations
children.
More than 230 state
public health,
child welfare and early learning
agency representatives participated
in the Pew campaign's first federal webinar, which featured an overview of the home visiting provisions included
in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Multiple state and local
agencies administer the continuum of services and supports that comprise the early learning system
in Illinois, including the Illinois State Board of Education (Preschool for All and Prevention Initiative, which together comprise the Early Childhood Block Grant), Department of Human Services (home visiting, Early Intervention,
child care, WIC), Department of
Children and Family Services (
child welfare and
child care licensing), and Department of
Public Health (family case management, health programs).
83 African - American families who adopted
children from two private
agencies in California between 1990 and 1995 (the majority of adoptees had been
in the
public child welfare system)