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Child Welfare Information Gateway connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. We feature the latest on topics from prevention to permanency, including child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption.
Family-Centered Practice
Provides resources to support and preserve families through a respectful, strengths-based approach that views the family as central to the child's well-being.
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Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect
Provides resources that help agencies and communities strengthen families, raise awareness, and implement prevention programs.
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Responding to Child Abuse & Neglect
Addresses child abuse and neglect reporting and potential responses from the child welfare system.
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Supporting & Preserving Families
Includes resources on family support and family preservation services.
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Out-of-Home Care
Provides resources and information about foster care, kinship care, residential group care, and transition to adulthood and independent living.
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Achieving & Maintaining Permanency
Includes information on the full range of permanency options for children and youth, postpermanency services, and special issues in achieving permanency for older youth, children from minority groups, and children with disabilities.
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Adoption
Presents information for professionals and members of the adoption triad (birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees) on domestic and intercountry adoption.
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Management & Supervision
Includes building, managing, and supervising child welfare services and ensuring an effective workforce.
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Systemwide
Includes topics and resources that are relevant across the child welfare continuum.
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Search A to Z
Searches Information Gateway's website by keyword to find related webpages, publications, and Children's Bureau Express articles.
State-Specific Resources
Includes child welfare-related laws, policies, agencies, support groups, and other information in each State.
- State Statutes Search
Provides an easy way to find State legislation on specific child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption topics. - National Foster Care & Adoption Directory
Includes State-by-State listings of adoption agencies, support groups, and State officials and services. Also available in Spanish. - Adoption Assistance by State
Provides answers to 13 questions on State adoption assistance policy, medical assistance, and postadoption services, compiled by the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance. - Child Welfare Workload Compendium
Offers information and tools for improving workload management through an online searchable database of State and local child welfare workload initiatives.
Publications
Offers free, reliable materials on all aspects of child welfare and adoption for professionals and the families they serve.
- Publications Catalog
Includes hundreds of free factsheets, issue briefs, and other resources to download or order. - Resources in Spanish
Supports professionals in their work with Spanish-speaking families and community members. - User Manual Series
Provides guidance on preventing, identifying, and responding effectively to child maltreatment.
Learning Center
Builds child welfare knowledge with concise and easy-to-use educational resources and training tools for professionals, faculty, and students.
- State Managers Series
Summarizes research and provides State and local examples of specific strategies to support managers responsible for State child welfare programs. - Educators' Toolkit
Offers information and resources across a broad range of child welfare topics to enhance university curricula. - How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery
Presents an overview of how Federal legislation and policy impact State and Tribal child welfare systems and service delivery.
Research
Presents reliable print and electronic publications, websites, and online information/data.
- Library search
Offers texts and abstracts of thousands of publications related to all aspects of child welfare. - Statistics
Includes reports, databases, and other sources of demographic data on children, youth, and families in the United States.
Logic Model Builders
Provides guidance in developing a logic model to help programs define their service goals and outcomes, identify indicators of success, and select evaluation instruments that may be appropriate to measure success. Information Gateway offers two Logic Model Builders:
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention/Family Support Programs- Postadoption Services Programs
Event Calendar
Presents conferences, Information Gateway materials distributed at conferences, and calls for papers related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption by month and State.
- Conference Calendar
Lists conferences where child welfare and related professionals network and create partnerships, learn new practices and strategies, and present papers and programs. - Conference Exhibits
Provides free materials previously distributed through Child Welfare Information Gateway exhibits at conferences throughout the country.
Related Organizations
Includes national, State, and Tribal organizations and university programs related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
- Related Organizations Lists
Provides contact information for organizations, grouped by topical focus. - Related Organizations Search
Presents a search for national organizations by name or topical focus.
Child Abuse & Neglect
Presents definitions, signs and symptoms, and issues related to child abuse and neglect.
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- Management & Supervision
Includes building, managing, and supervising child welfare services and ensuring an effective workforce. - Caseload and Workload Management
Describes strategies for management. 
Builds child welfare knowledge with educational resources and training tools.- Family Engagement
Addresses the importance of and ways to achieve meaning- ful family engagement. - Preplacement Adoption Casework Practice
Presents strategies to prepare children, youth, and families for an adoptive placement. - Educators' Toolkit
Offers information and topical resources that help enhance university curricula. - How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery
Provides a step-by-step overview and access to related resources.
Training & Technical Assistance Network
Highlights:
- The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center has posted the audio presentation and accompanying slide for two teleconferences.
- The National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW) has developed an online Child Welfare Training Toolkit.
- The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NCROI) has a Facebook page.
- The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) has produced a white paper that describes its dissemination planning and activities based on review of literature on dissemination practices and on the Dissemination Needs Assessment Survey of 150 child welfare practitioners that NCWWI conducted in 2009. (PDF - 937 KB)
- The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) has posted an April teleconference on its website: "Running from Treatment: The Problem of Youth Who Run From Residential Care."
- The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUsKids has launched a newly reorganized NRCRRFAP homepage, which includes updates for the Publications for Professionals webpage and other features.
- AdoptUsKids offers free online training to social workers, site members, and anyone who wants to learn more about its website's features and capabilities. Training is every third Wednesday of the month at 11 PST/2 EST.
- The National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues has produced a booklet designed to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in foster care. (PDF - 6,489 KB)
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