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Children's Bureau Training and Technical Assistance Network Disaster Preparedness and Response Resources
Child Welfare Matters (PDF - 532 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (Spring 2006)
This journal issue focuses on ways child welfare agencies can prepare for and cope with
disasters, including coordinating emergency management and supporting child welfare workers during a disaster.
Collaboration Counts: Answering the Call (PPT - 13,324 KB)
Damon (2006)
Describes the Gulf Coast Child Welfare Summit: Lighting the Way in Biloxi, Mississippi, which brought together a cross section of stakeholders to assess the needs of the child welfare system following Hurricane Katrina and develop an action plan to address these needs. Presented at the 2006 AdoptUsKids Summit, "Answering the Call: Extraordinary Services in Extraordinary Times - Recovery & Reform."
Coping with Disasters and Strengthening Systems: A Framework for Child Welfare Agencies (PDF - 1032 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (2007)
This publication is designed to help managers think through what they might put in place to cope with disasters, and to highlight how taking these steps can improve systems for serving children and families.
Disaster Preparedness and Relief
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
Links to disaster relief resources, organized by topic.
Hurricanes and Child Welfare (PDF - 4966 KB)
Permanency Planning Today, Winter 2005/2006
This issue of the National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency
Planning's journal focuses on resources that can help child welfare agencies assess, identify, and deal with trauma and stress.
Rescue, Recovery and Rebuilding: Lessons Learned, Challenges and Opportunities (PPT - 8396 KB)
Phillips (2006)
Facts about Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, their impact on child welfare services, and
important information about lessons learned and moving on. Presented at the 2006
AdoptUsKids Summit, "Answering the Call: Extraordinary Services in Extraordinary Times - Recovery & Reform."
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