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The following Information Gateway materials were made available at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges' 74th Annual Conference held July 24 to 27, 2011, in New York, NY.
| About CAPTA: A Legislative History | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 94KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 3 pages |
| Summarizes the legislative history and purpose of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), the key Federal legislation addressing child abuse and neglect. CAPTA was originally enacted in P.L. 93-247 and was most recently amended and reauthorized on December 20, 2010, by the CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-320). | |
| Child Welfare Outcomes 2004-2007: Executive Summary Brochure | |
| Author(s): | Children's Bureau. |
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| Year Published: | 2010 - 12 pages |
| Child Welfare Outcomes reports provide information on the performance of States in seven outcome categories. The outcomes used in this report reflect widely accepted performance objectives for child welfare practice. | |
| The Children's Bureau | |
| Author(s): | United States Children's Bureau |
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| Year Published: | 2006 - 12 pages |
| The Children's Burea administers a range of services designed to protect children and strengthen families. With an annual budget of more than $7 billion, the agency works with States, Tribes, and communities to plan, manage, coordinate, and support child abuse and neglect prevention, foster care, child welfare, and adoption programs that improve outcomes for children. and families. | |
| Concurrent Planning: What the Evidence Shows | |
| Series Title: | Issue Briefs |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 462KB) |
| Year Published: | 2012 - 15 pages |
| Explores research and practice on concurrent planning, which is an approach that involves considering all reasonable options for permanency at the earliest possible point following a child's entry into foster care. This issue brief reports on how the practice of concurrent planning has evolved over the last decade, what the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) have shown regarding concurrent planning, and the research literature on concurrent planning. Two State examples associated with the successful planning and implementation of concurrent planning in public agencies are presented. | |
| Domestic Violence and the Child Welfare System | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 1,359KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2009 - 14 pages |
| System responses to domestic violence have typically been targeted toward adult victims of abuse. However, increased attention is now being focused on children who witness domestic violence. This bulletin addresses the impact of domestic violence on children and the resulting implications on professional practice. Resources such as websites and additional publications are also provided for further information. | |
| Enhancing Permanency for Older Youth in Out-Of-Home Care | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 258KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2006 - 14 pages |
| Finding permanent families for older children and youth in out-of-home care continues to be a challenge for child welfare professionals. Many States and local jurisdictions have begun to implement programs specifically designed to help these youth establish permanent connections. This bulletin addresses the specific challenges of permanency planning with older youth, discussing the importance of focusing on older youth, barriers to permanency, strategies for successful permanency planning, and promising programs. A list of resources for further information is provided. | |
| Family Engagement | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway. |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 328KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2010 - 17 pages |
| Describes the benefits of family engagement in the child welfare system. This bulletin for professional child welfare caseworkers discusses ways to achieve meaningful family engagement, specific strategies that reflect family engagement, and examples of State and local child welfare programs that have achieved success with engaging families. | |
| Family Reunification: What the Evidence Shows | |
| Series Title: | Issue Briefs |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 257KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 20 pages |
| Family reunification, the process of returning children in temporary out-of-home care to their families of origin, is the most common goal and outcome for children in out-of-home care. This issue brief examines States' successes and challenges related to family reunification, as documented in the Federal Child and Family Services Reviews; reviews research regarding factors contributing to timely, stable reunifications; offers specific program examples that illustrate these factors; and uses all of the above to suggest several guiding principles for practice in this critical area of permanency planning. | |
| Feasibility of Evaluating the State Court Improvement Program: Volume 1 Final Report and Volume II Evaluability Assessment Site Visit Summaries. | |
| Author(s): | United States. Children's Bureau., James Bell Associates. |
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| Year Published: | 2003 - 341 pages |
| The Court Improvement Program (CIP) was established by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1993 (PL 103-66) to help state courts improve their processing of child welfare cases. By 2001, all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia were participating in the funding program. Each year, the Children's Bureau makes available over $10 million to state courts through a formula grant program. CIP was established as a flexible source of funding to undertake broad-based, comprehensive systemic reform of courts and legal processes. The diverse activities and services undertaken by state and local courts across the country reflect this federal ... | |
| How the Child Welfare System Works | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 378KB) |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 9 pages |
| The child welfare system is a group of services designed to promote the well-being of children by ensuring safety, achieving permanency, and strengthening families to successfully care for their children. Child welfare systems are complex, and their specific procedures vary widely by State. The purpose of this factsheet is to give a brief overview of the purposes and functions of the child welfare system from a national perspective. It discusses what happens when a report of possible abuse or neglect is made, what happens when a report is screened in, and what happens in substantiated cases. It also discusses what ... | |
| How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 522KB) |
| Year Published: | 2012 - 14 pages |
| This factsheet provides an overview of the process by which legislative actions and policy changes at the Federal level impact State and Tribal child welfare systems and service delivery. Links to pertinent resources are provided for each step of the process. | |
| How to work with your court : a guide for child welfare agency administrators. 2nd ed. | |
| Author(s): | Hardin, Rauber |
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| Year Published: | 2004 - 168 pages |
| Federal laws such as the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 and the Adoption and Safe Families Act increased the role of courts in the implementation of child welfare cases to ensure that agencies are achieving permanency for children. This book for child welfare administrators explains how to establish effective and efficient relationships between their agency and the courts. Tips are provided for meeting with judges to resolve administrative problems, cooperating with other key court staff, working on joint projects with the court, and informing judges and agency attorneys about child welfare service delivery issues. Supervisors also must ... | |
| Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 190KB) |
| Year Published: | 2008 - 8 pages |
| The harmful effects of child abuse and neglect vary depending on a number of factors, including the circumstances, personal characteristics of the child, and the child?s environment. In many cases, child abuse and neglect have consequences for children, families, and society that last lifetimes. This factsheet provides an overview of some of the most common physical, psychological, behavioral, and societal consequences of child abuse and neglect, including findings from research supported by the Federal Government. | |
| Parental Substance Use and the Child Welfare System | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 332KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2009 - 11 pages |
| Substance abuse has a major impact on the child welfare system. It is estimated that 9 percent of children in the United States live with at least one parent who abuses alcohol or other drugs. Research has demonstrated that children of substance abusing parents are more likely to experience abuse or neglect than children in non-substance abusing households. This fact sheet addresses the scope of the problem, the impact of parental substance abuse on children, service delivery issues, and agency practice implications. Resources for further information also are provided. 29 references. | |
| Promising Results, Potential New Directions: International FGDM Research and Evaluation in Child Welfare | |
| Author(s): | National Center on Family Group Decision Making (U.S.) Merkel-Holguin |
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| Year Published: | 2003 - 137 pages |
| This special issue of Protecting Children is a response to the need for empirical knowledge and research on family group decision making (FGDM) to support its future implementation, practice improvement, and sustainability. The first four articles present overarching philosophical and methodological considerations in FGDM research and evaluation. The remaining articles summarize a wide range of FGDM studies in action or already completed, including experiences in California, Washington, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Utah, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and England. The overall findings, divided into the categories of implementation, process indicators, and outcome indicators, offer considerable support ... | |
| The Role of Law Enforcement in the Response to Child Abuse and Neglect | |
| Author(s): | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Donna Pence, Charles Wilson |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 212KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 1992 - 78 pages |
| This manual was designed to train State and local law enforcement officials for intervention in and investigation of child abuse and neglect cases. It explains the rules of law enforcement, the nature of team investigations, the investigative process, relationships with other disciplines, interview techniques, and specialized types of investigations. Topics include risk assessment, removal from home, interviewing tools, cross-cultural investigations, foster care, investigation of child deaths, monitoring telephone or personal conversations, polygraph evaluations, and arrest issues. A glossary of terms and a selected bibliography are provided. 1 figure and 54 notes. | |
| Strengthening Families and Communities: 2011 Resource Guide. | |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children's Bureau, FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention, Center for the Study of Social Policy-Strengthening Families |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 2,632KB) |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 94 pages |
| This Resource Guide was written to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. The guide includes information about protective factors that help reduce the risk of child maltreatment, strategies for changing how communities support families, and evidence-informed practices. It also offers suggestions for enhancing protective factors in families, tools to build awareness and develop community partnerships, information about child abuse and neglect, a directory of national organizations that work to strengthen families, and tip sheets in English and Spanish on specific parenting topics. | |
| Substance Abuse Specialists in Child Welfare Agencies and Dependency Courts: Considerations for Program Designers and Evaluators. | |
| Author(s): | National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare., United States. Children's Bureau., United States. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Young |
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| Year Published: | 2010 - 58 pages |
| This paper focuses on the placing of substance abuse specialists in either child welfare offices or dependency courts. The purpose of co-locating substance abuse specialists is to ensure that parents are assessed as quickly as possible, to improve parent engagement and retention in treatment, to streamline entry into treatment, and to provide consultation to child welfare and dependency court workers. In addition to briefly describing substance abuse specialist programs and their various components, this paper includes findings from eight qualitative interviews of programs that place substance abuse specialists in child welfare offices or dependency courts. The interviews highlight ways in ... | |
| Systems of Care | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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| Year Published: | 2008 - 13 pages |
| This bulletin provides information on systems of care, an approach that builds partnerships to create a broad, integrated process for meeting the variety of physical, mental, social, emotional, educational, and developmental needs of children in the child welfare system. Topics include: the history of systems of care, its application within child welfare systems, guiding principles, and a list of organizations involved with systems of care. References are provided. | |
| Toll-Free Crisis Hotline Numbers | |
| Series Title: | Related Organizations Lists |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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| Year Published: | 2011 - 2 pages |
| This directory lists toll-free phone numbers maintained by various crisis organizations. It includes organizations that deal with child abuse, child sexual abuse, crime victims, family violence, mental illness, missing/abducted children, rape/incest, substance abuse, suicide prevention, and youth in trouble/runaways. | |
| Treatment for Abused and Neglected Children: Infancy to Age 18 | |
| Author(s): | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Urquiza, Winn |
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| Year Published: | 1994 - 134 pages |
| This manual, produced by NCCAN as part of the User Manual Series, provides an overview of the treatment of sexually abused, physically abused, and neglected children. Child development is briefly reviewed and the study of developmental psychopathology is described. All aspects of child development are considered, including intrapersonal development, interpersonal development, physical development, sexual development, and behavioral conduct development. Consequences of abuse and neglect, assessment of maltreatment, the therapeutic process and the role of the therapist, treatment issues and specialized interventions, and case management are addressed. The manual provides a glossary of terms and list of resources for more detailed ... | |
| Tribal-State Relations | |
| Series Title: | Issue Briefs |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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| Year Published: | 2005 - 14 pages |
| Both the United States Congress and Tribal governments have articulated the importance of protecting the safety, permanency, and well-being of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children. Through the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978, Congress stated ". . . that there is no resource that is more vital to the continued existence and integrity of Indian tribes than their children" (25 U.S.C. Sec. 1901). Congress goes on to further assert that "it is the policy of this Nation to protect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian Tribes and families by the ... | |