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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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Child Abuse & Neglect
Presents definitions, signs and symptoms, and issues related to child abuse and neglect.
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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 adopted people) 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
Offers access to child welfare-related information by 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. - State Guides & Manuals Search
Links to State publications that describe child welfare services and provide guidance to professionals and families. - State Related Organizations Lists
Presents contact information and websites for State child welfare and related organizations. - Adoption Assistance by State
Provides answers to 13 questions on State adoption assistance policy, medical assistance, and postadoption services. - Child Welfare Workload Compendium
Offers information and tools from State and local child welfare initiatives to improve workload management.
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. - Introduction to Parent-Child Visits
Provides self-guided online training for child welfare workers and supervisors as well as related professionals to improve outcomes through parent-child visits. - 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.
Library
Presents reliable print and electronic publications and online information.
- Library search
Offers texts and abstracts of thousands of publications related to all aspects of child welfare.
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 Welfare Outcomes
2006-2009
Analyzes State child welfare agency performance on seven child welfare outcomes. - Registration Now
Open
18th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect - Working With Military Families
Provides resources for working with military families and available programs. - Use of Psychotropic Medications
Information and Policies - Child Maltreatment
2010
Summarizes child abuse statistics submitted by States during 2010. - State Guides &
Manuals Search
Links to State publications that provide guidance to professionals and families. - 2011 Adoption
Excellence Awardees
Recognizes 18 recipients for excellence in achieving permanency for children. - Family Engagement in Child Welfare Video Series
Systems of Care communities working with birth parents
and kin-caregivers.
Children's Bureau Brochure (PDF - 1854 KB)
Training & Technical Assistance (T/TA) Network Directory
T/TA Network Highlights:
- The Atlantic Coast Child Welfare Implementation Center (ACCWIC) posted "Facing Reality: What It Takes to Implement Systems Change," the video for the first webinar in a series of webinars highlighting lessons learned from implementation efforts throughout the country.
- The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (AIA) produced a research-to-practice brief, Service Engagement and Retention for Women With Substance Use Disorders.
- The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NRCOI) compiled information on current approaches in 33 States to train and support child welfare supervisors and made that information available online.
- The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is accepting applications for its 2012 Summer Research Institute.
- The National Resource Center for In-Home Services (NRC In-Home) posted the first of three webcasts on services for pregnant and parenting youth, "Policies for Pregnant and Parenting Teens In or Exiting Substitute Care."
- The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) posted the webcast "Parenting Older Adolescents."
- The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) produced a toolkit for programs, States, and Tribes that expands on several aspects of kinship care practices affected by the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.
- The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents (AdoptUSKids) redesigned its website. Multicolored headings provide easy navigation, and nearly every subject page has a topical video.
- The National Resource Center for Youth Development (NRCYD) published its newsletter, eUpdate, which includes articles about financial education and the first National Youth in Transition Database technical assistance meeting.
- The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership) posted its latest newsletter featuring the article "Engaging Families One at a Time Builds a Strong, Family-Driven System in Delaware".
- The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership) announced the publication of a paper on ethnic and racial perspectives on family-driven care, Closing the Gap: Cultural Perspectives on Family-Driven Care.
- More updates from the T&TA Network.
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