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State of GrandFamilies Report: A Place to Call Home: Building Affordable Housing for Grandfamilies

Advocacy Tools
A new report from Generations United, A Place to Call Home: Building Affordable Housing for Grandfamilies, found less than one in three eligible grandfamilies receive housing assistance and details the... (Read more)
Kinship

Leveraging the Family First Prevention Services Act to Improve Use of Title IV-E GAP

Guidance
This brief highlights provisions in the Family First Act related to kinship families and federal Title IV-E GAP. It suggests how states and eligible tribes can build on these provisions... (Read more)
Kinship

Family First Transition Act. (S. 2777/H.R. 4980)

Implementation Strategies
Law / Summary
The bill (S. 2777/H.R. 4980) presents a bipartisan effort to help jurisdictions implement the Family First Prevention Services Act more effectively and proposes to provide resources to states, tribes and... (Read more)
Overview / General

Family First: Readiness Assessment, Planning, and Implementation

Data / Research
Chapin Hall is collaborating with jurisdictions and organizations across the country as they assess readiness and plan for Family First implementation and align their child welfare system with the transformational... (Read more)
Prevention
Overview / General

Jurisdictional Candidacy Definitions 10.31.19

Implementation Strategies
This resource from Chapin Hall & Casey Family Programs focuses on candidacy criteria and considerations for six jurisdictions that had submitted Prevention Plans as of 10.31.19: Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska,... (Read more)
Prevention

Helping the Children of the Opioid Crisis: Supporting Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children

Constituent Engagement
Guidance
A Generations United informative webinar on the impact of opioids and other substance use on grandfamilies, along with tools to help the families. Hear directly from members of grandfamilies who... (Read more)
Kinship

Safely Preventing the Unnecessary Entry of Children into Foster Care through Meaningful Initial Hearings

Presentation/Webinar
This recording is from the National Judicial Leadership Summit which convened in September 2019. Theme 3 of the convening was "Safely Preventing the Unnecessary Entry of Children into Foster Care... (Read more)
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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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