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A View from the Child Welfare System (PDF 2034 KB)
Part of a series on promising approaches for behavioral health services to children and adolescents and their families in managed care systems.
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Adoption Excellence Awards
The Administration for Children and Families' Adoption Excellence Awards recognize States, agencies, organizations, businesses, and individuals that have demonstrated excellence in providing stable, permanent homes for children in foster care.
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AdoptUSKids
The Children's Bureau contracted with the Adoption Exchange Association and its partners (the Collaboration to AdoptUSKids) to devise and implement a national adoptive family recruitment and retention strategy, operate the AdoptUSKids.org website, enhance adoptive family support organizations, and conduct a variety of adoption research projects.
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Angels in Adoption Awards
The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute is dedicated to raising awareness about the tens of thousands of foster children in this country and the millions of orphans around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes.
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Best Practices on Permanency for Older Youth: Workgroup Report From 2003 National Youth Permanence Convening
Presents California Permanency for Youth Project recommendations for achieving successful, permanent placements for adolescents.
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Caseload Size in Best Practice Literature Review (PDF 177 KB)
This literature review examines existing research related to casework size and outcomes for children in the child welfare system.
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Center for State Foster Care and Adoption Data
A partnership of Chapin Hall and the American Public Human Services Association, the Center will provide subscribing State child welfare agencies with a national database to assess the impact of their program initiatives over time.
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Child Welfare Reviews: Promising Approaches
The Children's Bureau actively identifies promising approaches in child welfare during the Child and Family Services Reviews.
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Concept Model for Post-Adoption Services
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the National Consortium for Post Legal Adoption Services, a coalition of child welfare agencies and mental health providers in Michigan, Arizona, Illinois, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, received an Adoption Opportunities grant to create a "concept model of post adoption services." This diagram is a model of the guiding principles of adoption support and preservation and the characteristics and outcomes of post-adoption services.
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Court Improvement Program
Resources on the Court Improvement Program, established in 1994 as a response to the dramatic increase in child abuse and neglect cases and the expanded role of courts in achieving stable, permanent homes for children in foster care.
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Dual Licensure of Foster and Adoptive Families
Survey about key lessons learned from States that have used dual licensure.
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Exemplary Title IV-B Recruitment Plan Elements
Children's Bureau Program Instruction addressing recruitment of potential foster and adoptive families.
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Guidelines for Computing Caseload Standards
Child Welfare League of America guidelines for recommended caseload ratios for workers in child welfare program areas, such as child protective services, foster care, adoption, and residential services.
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Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is required by legislation to award grants to adoption organizations to develop and implement programs to train health center staff in providing adoption information and referral to pregnant women.
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Looking to the Future: An Examination of the State of Child Welfare and Recommendations for Action
The Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare of the Center for the Study of Social Policy sponsored a 2002 summit on the future of child welfare.
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Making Interagency Initatives Work for Children and Families in the Child Welfare System (PDF 1088 KB)
Part of a series on promising approaches for behavioral health services to children and adolescents and their families in managed care systems.
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Model Courts: The National Council of Family Juvenile Court Judges
Dedicated to serving the nation's children and families by improving the courts of juvenile and family jurisdictions. Their mission is to better the justice system through education and applied research and improve the standards, practices and effectiveness of the juvenile court system.
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National Center on Family Group Decision Making
The center focuses on sharing resources, advancing family-driven practices, creating knowledge, and building links to improve the implementation and evaluation of family group decision-making.
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National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information Resources on Concurrent Planning
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-89) mandated shortened timelines for achieving permanency for children in foster care. To meet these timelines, most States have come to rely on concurrent planning.
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Partners: Working with the Business Community to Recruit Resource Families
This handbook, developed by Casey Family Programs, describes strategies that child welfare agencies can use to strengthen their recruitment of resource families, such as partnerships with the private and public business community.
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Permanency Planning Mediation Pilot Program: Evaluation Final Report (PDF 516 KB)
Examines the first three years of child protection mediation in the seven sites participating in Michigan's Permanency Planning Mediation Pilot Program.
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Relationship Between Post-Adoption Services and Adoption Outcomes
Children's Bureau Express article on a study that found a significant relationship between post-adoption service utilization and positive adoption outcomes.
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State Child Welfare Agency and Photolisting Webpages
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2002 - 6 pages |
This resource listing provides website addresses for State child welfare agencies and webpage links to information regarding adoption, foster care, adoption exchange, and photo listing services. All 50 States and the District of Columbia are included.
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Strengthening and Preserving Adoptive Families: A Study of TANF-Funded Post Adoption Services in New York State (PDF 400 KB)
This study reports on over 1,000 families who received post-adoption services from 13 New York State agencies and includes results from a parent satisfaction survey.
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Strengthening Families and Communities: An Approach to Post-Adoption Services: A White Paper (PDF 562 KB)
A 2002 Casey Family Services technical report.
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