How do Washington, D.C.’s community collaboratives provide neighborhood-based supports to families?

For nearly 30 years, Washington, D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) has teamed with neighborhood partners in a unique collaboration to support families where they live through the Healthy... (Read more)

Published Jul 10, 2023

Colorado Title IV-E Prevention Plan

Review Colorado's Title IV-E Prevention Plan. This plan has been approved per the Children' Bureau website , which provides status updates on the states, tribes and jurisdictions that have... (Read more)

Published Jul 10, 2023

Florida Title IV-E Prevention Plan

Review Florida's Title IV-E Prevention Plan. This plan has been approved per the Children' Bureau website , which provides status updates on the states, tribes and jurisdictions that have... (Read more)

Published Jul 10, 2023

Idaho Title IV-E Prevention Plan

Review Idaho's Title IV-E Prevention Plan. This plan has been approved per the Children' Bureau website , which provides status updates on the states, tribes and jurisdictions that have... (Read more)

Published Jul 10, 2023

Georgia Title IV-E Prevention Plan

Review Georgia's Title IV-E Prevention Plan. This plan has been approved per the Children' Bureau website , which provides status updates on the states, tribes and jurisdictions that have... (Read more)

Published Jul 10, 2023

New Guidance on Community Pathways from the Children’s Bureau

On February 28, 2023, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Children’s Bureau released a Letter to Child Welfare Directors that includes, “resources to aid jurisdictions as they develop... (Read more)

Published Jul 3, 2023

Dear Child Welfare Colleague Letter from ACF on Title IV-E Prevention Plans

Excerpt : As of February 28, 2023, CB has approved 39 prevention plans from 35 states, 3 tribes, and the District of Columbia. The status of submitted plans and links... (Read more)

Published Jul 3, 2023

Reasonable Efforts to Preserve or Reunify Families and Achieve Permanency for Children

This factsheet discusses laws that require child welfare agencies to make reasonable efforts to provide services that will help families remedy the conditions that brought the child and family into... (Read more)

Published Jul 3, 2023

Partnering With Birth Parents To Promote Reunification

Children, youth, and families benefit when foster and birth parents are supported by an agency culture that encourages a meaningful partnership and that provides quality support. Child Welfare Information Gateway... (Read more)

Published Jul 3, 2023

THRIVING FAMILIES, SAFER CHILDREN, SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES: Investing in Children and Families

Today in America, some 377,000 children are living in foster care, each child removed from their home, family, and the network of caregivers, educators and other caring adults in their... (Read more)

Published Jul 3, 2023