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Improving Outcomes for Children and Families
The following resources are designed to help States improve outcomes for children and families through the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) process.
Tools and promising approaches
2007 CFSR ToolKit for Youth Involvement: Engaging Youth in the Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 3119 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement & National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development (2007)
Offers practical strategies for collaborating with youth in the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR).
Assessing Promising Approaches in Child Welfare: Strategies for State Legislators (PDF - 148 KB)
Children's Bureau, U.S Department of Health and Human Services (2007)
Information on how State legislators and legislative staff can effectively consider the appropriateness of promising child welfare approaches in relation to the program improvements being made through the Child and Family Services Reviews.
Case Planning and the CFSR (PDF - 118 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
Presents seven items from the CFSRs that are critical to case planning when a child is in out-of-home care.
Evidence-Based Practice Tool
Results Oriented Management in Child Welfare (2003)
Provides a review of the research evidence on factors associated with the six major CFSR outcome measures.
Promising Approaches
Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Descriptions of promising approaches in child welfare from more than 20 States during the CFSR process. Topics include agency, court, and community collaboration; foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention; permanency; and others.
Publications for Child and Family Services Reviews: Teleconferences
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement
Teleconference materials cover topics such as ongoing program improvement and using technical assistance to improve your agency.
State Data Profile Toolkit
National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (2006)
Assists States in understanding the State Data Profile and to use data more effectively in the CFSR.
Strengthening Service Plan Reviews: A Practice Paper (Word - 157 KB)
New York State Office of Children and Family Services (2004)
Reviews the purposes of the SPR process; identifies several innovative SPR practices already underway in local districts and agencies in New York State; and recommends strategies for revitalizing and renewing Service Plan Review meetings.
Using Data to Monitor PIP Progress
National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (2004)
Provides information on how the Texas CFSR Team has approached their quality assurance process in four distinct ways and is incorporating these tools into the social work practice.
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Analyses of CFSR findings
An Analysis of States' Child and Family Services Reviews and Program Improvement Plans From a Youth Development Perspective (PDF - 988 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development (2004)
Presents an analysis of issues relating specifically to adolescents and identified in the final CFSR reports and PIPs.
An Analysis of Mental Health Issues in States' Child and Family Services Reviews and Program Improvement Plans (PDF - 239 KB)
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University, & Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health at the American Institutes for Research (2004)
Summarizes responses to 10 questions about mental health screening and assessment, mental health services, and the extent to which mental health issues are addressed in Program Improvement Plans.
Child and Family Services Reviews 2001-2004: A Mental Health Analysis (PDF - 452 KB)
McCarthy, Van Buren, & Irvine (2007)
Discusses mental health service delivery and management trends noted in the Child and Family Services Reviews Final Reports and Program Improvement Plans and summarizes mental health challenges and opportunities for
reform across all States.
Child and Family Services Review Final Reports: An Assessment of States' Success in Involving Children and Families in Case Planning
Children's Rights, Inc.
Reviews the results of the Child and Family Services Reviews with the 22 States for which final reports had been issued as of February 2003.
Foster Parent Training: What the CFS Reviews Do and Don't Tell Us (PDF - 1280 KB)
Grimm
Youth Law News (2003)
Reviews findings of the CFSRs related to the training of foster care providers and discusses training standards, Federal training requirements, professional standards for foster parent training, and State training requirements.
General Findings From the Federal Child and Family Services Review
This report contains State-level and case-level analyses of the results of the first round of the CFSRs by the Children's Bureau.
A Preliminary Review of Alcohol and Other Drug Issues in the States' Child and Family Services Reviews and Program Improvement Plans (PDF - 295 KB)
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
Summary and analysis of the CFSRs and Program Improvement Plans (PIPs), highlighting the substance abuse issues included in the States' reports.
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Working with other stakeholders
Agency and Court Collaboration on the CFSRs and PIPs
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
Survey of 13 states to identify methods for increasing collaboration between child welfare agencies and family courts during the CFSR process.
Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) and Family Support Services (PDF - 52 KB)
National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (2003)
Describes how it supports States in the CFSR process.
Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs): How Judges, Court Administrators, and Attorneys Should Be Involved (PDF - 312 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues (2002)
Explains the basics of CFSRs, why they are important to maintaining the momentum of court improvement efforts, and how courts can become involved in CFSRs.
Child Welfare Matters: Stakeholder Involvement in Child Welfare (PDF - 122 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (2005)
Describes how agencies must work with other groups and individuals who affect outcomes to make the systemic program improvements that States need.
Engaging Community Stakeholders and Building Community Partnerships
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (2007)
In CFSR Training and Technical Assistance Package
Curriculum facilitates stakeholder involvement as a way of life for the agency, and teaches participants how to establish and sustain these important relationships.
How and Why to Involve the Courts in Your Child and Family Services Review (CFSR): Suggestions for Agency Administrators (PDF - 271 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
Explains why involving the courts in systemic reforms is an essential part of the process.
How We Can Help States and Tribes With the CFSR (PDF - 22 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
Describes the ways it can assist States and tribes with the CFSR process, including legal and judicial analysis and involving courts in the process.
Information Memoradum ACYF-CB-IM-05-05: Issued June 24, 2005
This issuance discusses court involvement in the Child and Family Services Reviews.
Sample Memorandum of Understanding: Court-Agency Cooperation on Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) (PDF - 94 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
A sample memorandum outlines how States and courts can work together during the CFSR process.
State Legislators and the Child and Family Services Reviews
National Conference of State Legislators
The technical Assistance to State Legislators on the CFSRs Project of the year has produced three reports for the Children's Bureau on engaging State legislators in the CFSR and PIP processes: Focusing on Child Welfare Systems: Collaborating With State Legislators on Reform; The Child and Family Services Reviews: The Role of State Legislators; and Focusing on Child Welfare Systems: The Role of State Legislators.
Supporting Improvements in Child Welfare Systems Through the Child and Family Services Reviews: A Resource for State Legislators
National Conference of State Legislatures (2006)
Provides key questions for legislators and their staff to ask State child welfare agencies about the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) process. Designed for legislators interested in discussing the CFSRs with State child welfare agency administrators; the overarching goal is to promote the involvement of legislators in the review process.
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