Resources
Parent Partners: Resources for Individuals, Teams and Systems
The removal of children from their caregivers is often a painful, traumatic experience. Reunification with parents or primary caregivers is both the most common goal and the most common outcome... (Read more)
Published Jul 25, 2022
Achieving Permanency Through Reunification
Think of a time as a child when you remember temporarily losing your parent: You’re 5 years old and you’ve lost your mother in a crowded grocery store. You’re in... (Read more)
Published Jul 11, 2022
Partnering With Birth Parents to Promote Reunification
The most successful foster caregivers understand their role goes beyond supporting the children in their care to supporting the children’s families as a whole. Many factors may influence how you... (Read more)
Published Jun 27, 2022
Factsheet for Families: Partnering With Relatives to Promote Reunification
If you are stepping in to care for a relative's children, you play an important role in the child welfare system by helping to support the family connections that are... (Read more)
Published Jun 20, 2022
Further Assistance from HHS Would be Helpful in Supporting Youth's LGBTQ+ Identities and Religious Beliefs
A majority of all states had some protections from discrimination in place for youth in foster care on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion as of February... (Read more)
Published Jun 13, 2022
THE CHILD CARE PARADOX: HOW CHILD CARE PROVIDERS BALANCE PAID AND UN-PAID CAREGIVING
Care work is some of the most important work in our society, supporting children, families, and individuals across their lifespans. Often called “the workforce behind the workforce,” child care in... (Read more)
Published Jun 6, 2022
ELEVATING CULTURALLY SPECIFIC EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES
The Family First Prevention Services Act (Family First), enacted in February 2018, is one of the most significant pieces of child welfare legislation passed in recent history. It enables child... (Read more)
Published May 31, 2022
Children’s understandings of gender-based violence at home: The role school can play in child disclosure
Both official data and scientific evidence have shown that gender violence and the impact it has on children is an important social problem and ways of preventing it do not... (Read more)
Published May 23, 2022
IMPROVING THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES THROUGH HIGH-QUALITY LAWYERING
In 2019, the Walter S. Johnson Foundation invested in three legal organizations in California who were implementing high- quality representation for children and parents separated by the foster care system:... (Read more)
Published May 16, 2022
State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
Child Trends’ updated comprehensive resource of state-level data for understanding child welfare provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, and adoption. This resource compiles critical... (Read more)
Published Apr 22, 2022
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