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American Bar Association

Leveraging the FFPSA for Older Youth: Reduction of Group Care Provisions

Guidance
An overview of Family First provisions relating to Quality Residential Treatment Programs (QRTPs) and older youth. Provides implementation and planning strategies, as well as advocacy opportunities. Check it out here(Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee
QRTP / Congregate Care

Leveraging the FFPSA for Older Youth: Improving Transitions

Implementation Strategies
An overview of Family First provisions relating to older youth through the Chafee program and provides implementation and planning strategies, as well as advocacy opportunities. Check it out here(Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee
Overview / General

Leveraging the FFPSA for Older Youth: Prevention Provisions

Guidance
An overview of Family First provisions relating to prevention provisions that impact older youth. Provides implementation and planning strategies, as well as advocacy opportunities. Check it out here(Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee
Pregnant & Parenting
Prevention

Tool for Engaging the Legal Community in Implementing Family First

Guidance
The ABA Center on Children and the Law has just published a Tool for Engaging the Legal Community in Implementing Family First. This tool lays the groundwork for state and... (Read more)
Courts

Webinar Recording: Leveraging the Family First Prevention Services Act to Improve the Use of Title IV-E Guardianship Assistance Program

Presentation/Webinar
Implementation Strategies
This publication release webinar highlights historic reforms to the child welfare system to better support children, families and relative caregivers as a result of the Family First Prevention Services Act... (Read more)
Kinship

Title IV-E funding for legal representation and Title IV-E funding for Family First Prevention Services.

Guidance
Title IV-E funds available to reimburse jurisdictions for attorneys for parents and children are separate and distinct from IV-E funds available for prevention services under Family First. There has been... (Read more)
Courts
Prevention

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 Core Messaging

Advocacy Tools
This document outlines topline messages designed to help communicate the Family First Act with key stakeholders and the public. Key messages include: Kids deserve to grow up in families; With... (Read more)
Overview / General

Implementation Questions for Legal Community Engagement

Advocacy Tools
State Teams
Implementation Strategies
As states begin the process of implementing the many provisions of Family First, we have pulled together questions for agencies to discuss and address with partners in the legal community... (Read more)
Overview / General

Legal Professional Roles: Implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act

Implementation Strategies
The American Bar Association has provided a two-page summary of ways the legal community can engage to help implement the Family First Prevention Services Act.(Read more)
Overview / General
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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 Children's Defense Fund Children's Trust Fund Alliance Child Trends Family Focused Treatment Association Federal HHS/ACYF/CB Foster Care Alumni of America FosterClub Generations United National Association of Counsel for Children National Conference of State Legislatures National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges National Governors Association Other Public Consulting Group Senate / Congress 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

Resource Types

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  • State Teams (27)

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