Recommendations for Prioritizing Children in Opioid Settlement Funding
Advocacy Tools, Implementation Strategies

Recommendations for Prioritizing Children in Opioid Settlement Funding

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)

Published Mar 26, 2021

Advocacy Tools

Family-Centered Reunification

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)

Published Mar 25, 2021

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Guidance, Implementation Strategies

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

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)

Published Mar 17, 2021

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Title IV-E Prevention Plan

Iowa's Five-Year Title IV-E Prevention Program Plan

Iowa’s Family First Prevention Services Act plan has been approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Key components of Family First include foster care prevention services such... (Read more)

Published Mar 12, 2021

Presentation/Webinar, Implementation Strategies

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

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)

Published Mar 11, 2021

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Implementation Strategies

Congregate Care in the Age of Family First

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)

Published Mar 11, 2021

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

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

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)

Published Mar 9, 2021

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Program Instructions

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

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)

Published Mar 9, 2021

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Advocacy Tools, Financing

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

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)

Published Mar 9, 2021

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Implementation Strategies

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

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)

Published Mar 2, 2021