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Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Courts: A Tool for Improving Outcomes for American Indian Children and Families

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Guidance
Implementation Strategies
In this publication, the Indian Child Welfare Act best practice implementation experiences of the St. Louis County Indian Child Welfare Act Court are featured, along with highlights from research evaluating... (Read more)
Courts
Evidence-Based Practice

ACYF-CB-PI-21-06

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Program Instructions
This Program Instruction provides guidance to state, territorial and tribal title IV-E agencies on the actions required to apply for FY 2021 title IV-B, subpart 2 funding to support the... (Read more)
Overview / General

Reimagining Child Welfare: Recommendations for Public Policy Change by American Academy of Pediatrics

Advocacy Tools
This report highlights the final recommendations to public policy to promote family preservation, support secure families, improve federal child welfare policies, and ensure all of America’s children and families can... (Read more)
Prevention

2021/2022 Prevention Resource Guide

2021/2022 Prevention Resource Guide
Advocacy Tools
This resource by Child Welfare Information Gateway is a significant revision of the popular Office on Child Abuse and Neglect publication in more than 15 years. This year’s Resource Guide... (Read more)
Prevention

Family First Planning & Readiness Toolkit

Advocacy Tools
Implementation Strategies
Chapin Hall developed a toolkit to help child welfare agencies implement the first phase of the Family First Prevention Services Act. The Family First Planning and Readiness Toolkit include a... (Read more)
Prevention

Implementation of Older Youth Provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act

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Advocacy Tools
Presentation/Webinar
FosterClub and Juvenile Law Center featured Child Welfare Leaders from Illinois and Kentucky to share implementation examples and highlights of the Older Youth Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act. Child... (Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee

Recommendations for Prioritizing Children in Opioid Settlement Funding

Recommendations for Prioritizing Children in Opioid Settlement Funding
Advocacy Tools
Implementation Strategies
First Focus on Children and Families USA provided detailed recommendations for how governors, attorneys general (AGs), state children’s cabinets, legislatures, state advocates, city and town councils, and other stakeholders should... (Read more)
Prevention

Family-Centered Reunification

Advocacy Tools
This report by The National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification offers an overview of the state of the research evidence about interventions designed to promote reunification and presents a... (Read more)
QRTP / Congregate Care
Prevention

Implementing ACYF-CB-PI-21-04 Older Youth Federal Guidance Webinar

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Guidance
Implementation Strategies
The Children’s Bureau issued the Program Instruction for the Supporting Foster Youth and Families Act Program Instruction on March 9th. This document is crucial to the effective and quick implementation... (Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee

Family First Act Kinship, Youth Alumni, and Parent Learning Session

Presentation/Webinar
Implementation Strategies
Family Voices United held a peer learning session with parents, kinship caregivers, and foster youth alumni, on the Family First Prevention Services Act, New Opportunities in the Consolidated Appropriations Act,... (Read more)
Overview / General
Older Youth / Chafee
Kinship
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Sources

American Academy of Pediatrics American Bar Association American Public Human Services Association Annie E. Casey Foundation Birth Parent National Network Casey Family Programs Chapin Hall Child Focus Children's Defense Fund Children's Trust Fund Alliance Child Trends Family Centered Treatment Foundation Family Focused Treatment Association Federal HHS/ACYF/CB Foster Care Alumni of America FosterClub Generations United Juvenile Law Center Mathematica National Association of Counsel for Children National Conference of State Legislatures National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges National Council on Crime & Deliquency National Governors Association National Indian Child Welfare Association Other Public Consulting Group Senate / Congress Within Our Reach Youth Villages

Topics

Adoption Assistance Child Fatalities Courts COVID-19 Evidence-Based Practice Interstate Placement / NEICE Juvenile Justice Kinship Older Youth / Chafee Overview / General Pregnant & Parenting Prevention QRTP / Congregate Care

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FamilyFirstAct.org is a collaborative project between:

American Academy of Pediatrics
American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
American Public Human Services Association
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Casey Family Programs
Child Trends
Child Focus
Children's Defense Fund
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Evident Change
Family Centered Treatment Foundation
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Foster Care Alumni of America

FosterClub
Generations United
Juvenile Law Center
Mathematica
National Association of Counsel for Children
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
National Indian Child Welfare Association
National Governors Association
Public Consulting Group
Within Our Reach 
Youth Villages

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