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The following Information Gateway materials were made available at the Practical Considerations: The Nexus of Social Work and Law in International Child Welfare meeting held October 30 to 31, 2009, in Baltimore, MD.
| Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted From Foster Care | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 369KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 5 pages |
| In every State there are children with special needs waiting in foster care for adoptive families. The most recent data estimate that 126,000 children are available to be adopted from foster care. In the past, the costs of care and services were major obstacles to parents who would otherwise adopt and love these children, and most were not placed for adoption. The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 provided the first Federal subsidies to encourage the adoption of children from the nation's foster care system. These subsidies, known as adoption assistance, serve to minimize the financial obstacles to ... | |
| Adoption Disruption and Dissolution | |
| Series Title: | Numbers and Trends |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 162KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2004 - 5 pages |
| This factsheet reports statistics about adoption disruption (before finalization of the placement) and dissolution (after legal finalization). Differences in disruption rates by age of the child and placement history, reasons why disruption and dissolution occur, and disruption and dissolution trends are noted. | |
| Child Maltreatment 2006 | |
| Author(s): | United States. Children's Bureau., Walter R. McDonald & Associates. Gaudiosi |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 5,130KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2008 - 194 pages |
| This report summarizes child abuse statistics submitted by states to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) during 2006. See a list of all Child Maltreatment Reports. The data are presented in aggregate and by state, and trends are reported when available. Topics include sources of reports; time for response; victimization rates; types of maltreatment; age, race and gender of victims; age and gender of perpetrators; relationship of perpetrators to the victim; number of child fatalities; types of services provided; and additional research related to child maltreatment. During FFY 2006, an estimated 905,000 children in the 50 ... | |
| Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care Through Their Middle Twenties. | |
| Author(s): | United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation., Urban Institute. |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 0KB) |
| Year Published: | 2008 - 84 pages |
| Studies of former foster youth who age out of care find that these youth generally experience high unemployment, unstable employment patterns, and earn very low incomes in the period between ages 18 and 21. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) requested this study to examine employment and earnings outcomes for youth, through their mid-twenties, who age out of foster care. The key question and focus of the study is whether foster youth catch up or continue to experience less employment and significantly lower earnings than their peers even ... | |
| Concurrent Planning: What the Evidence Shows | |
| Series Title: | Issue Briefs |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 156KB) |
| Year Published: | 2005 - 11 pages |
| Concurrent planning is an approach that seeks to eliminate delays in attaining permanent family placements for children in the foster care system. This process involves considering all reasonable options for permanency at the earliest possible point following a child's entry into foster care. This issue brief examines examples of and support for concurrent planning across the United States; reports on practices and evaluations of research in recent literature; emphasizes the important roles of court personnel in achieving timely permanence via concurrent planning; illustrates examples associated with the successful planning and implementation of concurrent planning in public agencies; and establishes some ... | |
| Differential Response to Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect | |
| Series Title: | Issue Briefs |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway. |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 254KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2008 - 26 pages |
| A growing number of State and local child protective services (CPS) agencies are employing some form of differential response. In these systems, families reported for suspected child abuse or neglect may receive either a traditional investigation or an assessment alternative, depending on the severity of the allegation and other considerations. This issue brief for child welfare administrators and policymakers provides an overview of differential response, highlights lessons learned through research and experience, and offers some guiding principles for implementation. | |
| Foster Parent Adoption | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 313KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2006 - 9 pages |
| This paper discusses issues related to the increasing importance of foster parents as permanency resources for children in foster care. In order to facilitate adoptions by foster parents, professionals should be knowledgeable about the benefits, costs, and practice issues surrounding foster parent adoption. Practice issues include assessment, adoption preparation and postadoption support, and facilitating ongoing connections with birth families. | |
| How Many Children Were Adopted in 2000 and 2001? | |
| Series Title: | Numbers and Trends |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 321KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2004 - 31 pages |
| The purpose of this report is to estimate the number of children adopted in each of the States for 2000 and 2001 and to use these numbers to estimate the composition and trends of all adoptions in the United States. Key findings, presented in How Many Children Were Adopted in 2000 and 2001?-Highlights (http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/s_adoptedhighlights.cfm), include: (1) In 2000 and 2001, about 127,000 children were adopted annually in the United States; (2) Public agency and intercountry adoptions account for more than half of alladoptions; (3) Adoptions through publicly funded child welfare agencies accounted for two-fifths of all adoptions; (4) Intercountry adoptions ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| Kinship Caregivers and the Child Welfare System | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 335KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2010 - 15 pages |
| Informal and formal kinship care arrangements help to ensure stability and protection for children within their extended family. This fact sheet describes the benefits of kinship care as a child protection alternative and examines the agency's responsibility for the placement. The placement decision-making process, what to expect from the child welfare service and court system, and financial support, available services, and permanency planning are discussed. Questions for new kin caregivers to ask and a list of additional references are provided. | |
| Working With Military Families as They Pursue Adoption | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 276KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2010 - 7 pages |
| This bulletin explains the benefits of using military families as adoptive resources for children. It discusses the challenges in working with military families, ways these challenges have been overcome, and provides a list of resources and organizations that support families in their adoption pursuits. | |
| Military Families Considering Adoption | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 296KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2010 - 6 pages |
| Common questions about adoption of children by military personnel and their families are addressed in this factsheet. Topics include: resources for information about state laws, what to expect during the home study and the impact of deployment on the process, leave time, and cost. Postadoption services and medical benefits for adopted children also are discussed. | |
| Obtaining Background Information on Your Prospective Adopted Child | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 248KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2003 - 6 pages |
| This fact sheet explains why it is important to obtain background information about a prospective child. It discusses where a family might find background information, what questions to ask about the child's medical, family, social, and placement history, and why information may not be available. It includes a list of resources for more information. | |
| Post-Legal Adoption Services For Children with Special Needs and Their Families : Challenges and Lessons Learned | |
| Series Title: | Grantee Lessons Learned |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 318KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2005 - 15 pages |
| With the goal of expanding and enhancing services to adoptive families of children with special needs, post-legal adoption services have been established in annual adoption discretionary grant announcements. Under that priority area in 1998, 15 3-year grants were awarded to increase permanency and well-being for children with special needs by preventing adoption disruption, dissolution, or out-of-home placement. This briefing paper synthesizes the final reports of those 15 projects. The projects targeted post-legal adoptive families and their children with special needs, pre-adoptive families, single adoptive parents, transracial adoptive families, kinship families. Core services included parent support and educational groups, children s ... | |
| Program Evaluation: A Synthesis of Lessons Learned by Child Neglect Demonstration Projects | |
| Series Title: | Grantee Lessons Learned |
| Author(s): | United States. Children's Bureau. |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 236KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2005 - 18 pages |
| In 1996 and 1997, the Children's Bureau funded 10 demonstration projects to address the prevention, intervention, and treatment needs of neglected children and their families. These projects implemented and evaluated a wide variety of service strategies with large numbers of high-risk children and families. The programs varied considerably in terms of theoretical model (psychosocial or ecological), target population, location (in-home or out-of-home), duration, and intensity. The projects provided a great variety of services, including parent education and support, home visits, and referrals to other resources or services in the community. (For information about the programmatic aspects of these projects, see ... | |
| Providing Background Information to Adoptive Parents | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 278KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2003 - 8 pages |
| This bulletin explains the importance of providing background information about a child to prospective adoptive parents so that they can be prepared to address the child's emotional, health, and behavioral needs. The briefing describes the liability of agencies in cases of wrongful adoption and identifies the types of information that families should receive. Issues regarding sensitive information and right to privacy also are discussed. | |
| Qué es Child Welfare Information Gateway? | |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 230KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2006 - 2 pages |
| Un boletín que proporciona información general sobre los recursos y contendidos destacados que se publican en el sitio de Internet de Child Welfare Information Gateway. Incluye información sobre cómo acceder a estos recursos. English version availabler at: http://childwelfare.gov/pubs/general_flyer.pdf | |
| Rereporting and Recurrence of Child Maltreatment : Findings from NCANDS | |
| Author(s): | United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation., Walter R. McDonald and Associates. Fluke, Shusterman, Hollinshead, Yuan |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 397KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2005 - 33 pages |
| Most children who are subjects of a report of maltreatment to the State or local child protective services (CPS) agency are involved just once with CPS during their lives. Other children are referred more than once and their referrals result in repeated investigations or assessments (rereporting). Some of these children are found to have been revictimized (recurrence). This paper focuses on rereporting and recurrence, and on gaining a better understanding of the circumstances surrounding these children with repeated involvement with CPS. Most previous studies of subvsequent reports alleging maltreatment of the same child or of revictimization have included only small ... | |
| Stay Connected to Adoption Information | |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 226KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2007 - 2 pages |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting adoption and other child welfare professionals to information and resources that help them address the needs of children and families in their communities. This flier highlights the resources and services that Child Welfare Information Gateway offers. | |
| Strengthening Families and Communities: 2009 Resource Guide | |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children's Bureau, FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention |
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| Year Published: | 2009 - 86 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. | |
| Synthesis of Findings : Assisted Guardianship Child Welfare Waiver Demonstrations. | |
| Author(s): | James Bell Associates |
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| Year Published: | 2005 - 27 pages |
| Since 1996, seven States have implemented assisted guardianship waiver demonstrations: Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Montanna, New Mexico, North Carolina and Oregon. Montanna and New Mexico's demonstrations offered a guardianship option for children in either Tribal or State custody. In two States -- North Carolina and Oregon -- assisted guardianship was one component of a larger, flexible funding waiver demonstration. The number of States implementing guardianship demonstrations reflects growing interest nationally in the use of guardianship as an alternative permanency option for some children in foster care, particularly children placed with relatives, who cannot be safly reunified with birth parentsor who cannot ... | |
| Synthesis of Findings : Substance Abuse Child Welfare Waiver Demonstrations. | |
| Author(s): | James Bell Associates |
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| Year Published: | 2005 - 35 pages |
| Since 1996, four States have implemented substance abuse waiver demonstrations: Delaware, New Hampshire, Illinois, and Maryland. Findings from Delaware and Illinois are summarized in this report. Findings from New Hampshire are incomplete; and Maryland obtained no data on the outcomes of its demonstration. The use of the title IV-E waiver demonstrations to implement substance abuse projects reflects a growing national realization that the substance abuse issues of parents must be addressed to decrease the incidence of out-of-home placement, reduce lengths of stay of children in out-of-home placement, and reduce the cost associated with foster care. These demonstrations have provided States ... | |
| The Basics of Adoption Practice | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 307KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2006 - 13 pages |
| Adoption is a highly specialized field that focuses on placing children with families and providing services to ensure that these placements are permanent. In recent decades, the emphasis of adoption practice has shifted from helping families find children to finding safe and permanent families for children. Adoption workers are now expected to have extensive knowledge and understanding of the recruitment and assessment of adoptive families, the placement of children with a variety of strengths and needs, and supportive postadoption services to promote attachment and permanency for children. This bulletin provides an overview of the basics of adoption practice and the ... | |
| Understanding Foster Parenting: Using Administrative Data to Explore Retention. Final Report. | |
| Author(s): | RTI International., U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Gibbs |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 528KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2005 - 68 pages |
| This study was designed to extend current understanding of foster parent retention by producing unbiased estimates of length of service and examining factors associated with licensure, provision of care, and length of service. The study used administrative data, applying data management and analytic methods that have been used to describe the length of stay for children in foster care. Principal research questions include: How have the characteristics of foster parents changed over time? How can variations in activity levels be described, and what foster parent characteristics are associated with varying activity levels? What is the typical length of service for ... | |