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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

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

Congregate Care in the Age of Family First

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Implementation Strategies
Learn about the congregate care provisions of the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) and explore the important role of family engagement and trauma-informed care in residential treatment programs in... (Read more)
QRTP / Congregate Care

ACYF-CB-PI-21-05- Implementing Kinship Navigator Funding in Consolidated Appropriations Act

ACYF-CB-PI-21-05- Kinship Navigator Funding in Consolidated Appropriations Act
Program Instructions
Children’s Bureau Federal Instruction on Program Instruction (ACYF-CB-PI-21-05) released to instruct title IV-E agencies on actions needed to receive title IV-E Kinship Navigator funding under the provisions of Section 8,... (Read more)
Kinship

ACYF-CB-PI-21-04 - Implementing Older Youth Provisions in Consolidated Appropriations Act

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Program Instructions
The Children’s Bureau issued guidance and instruction related to the Supporting Foster Youth and Families through the Pandemic Act, Division X of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Public Law (P.L.)... (Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee

Child Welfare Financing Survey for state fiscal year (SFY) 2018

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Advocacy Tools
Financing
Child Trends Child Welfare Financing Survey for state fiscal year (SFY) 2018 provides a national and state-by-state analysis of the composition of, and changes in, child welfare agency expenditures. State... (Read more)

Ending the Use of Harmful and Unnecessary Institutions and Other Group Facilities in Child Welfare Systems

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Implementation Strategies
Children’s Rights Families Over Facilities: Ending the Use of Harmful and Unnecessary Institutions and Other Group Facilities in Child Welfare Systems report provides both a Declaration of Urgency and an... (Read more)
QRTP / Congregate Care

Family First Kinship Checklist

Guidance
Implementation Strategies
This resource was developed by the ABA Center on Children and the Law, Casey Family Programs, Children’s Defense Fund, and Generations United to support Implementing Provisions that Support Kinship Families:... (Read more)
Kinship

Claiming Traditional and Prevention Candidates Under Family First

Advocacy Tools
This document has been updated with federal guidance around the Family First Act. Under the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), states can claim Title IV-E administrative costs for children... (Read more)
Overview / General
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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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