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Implementation Strategies

Strategic Planning in Child Welfare: Strategies for Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement

Constituent Engagement
Implementation Strategies
The Strategic Planning in Child Welfare series offers guidance and tools to help support you in your integrated long-term planning efforts, improving coordination between federal processes (CFSP/APRS and CFSR/PIP), and... (Read more)
Overview / General

Nebraska Family First Act

State Teams
Implementation Strategies
A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to children and families; to amend sections 2 28-710, 28-713, 28-720, 28-728, 28-729, 43-1301, 43-2201, 43-2203, 3 43-2204, 43-2205, 43-2209, 68-1207, and 68-1212, Reissue... (Read more)
Overview / General

The National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise (NEICE) Clearinghouse Overview

Implementation Strategies
National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise (NEICE) is a national electronic system for quickly and securely exchanging the data and documents required by the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children... (Read more)
Interstate Placement / NEICE

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

Using In Home Services to prevent foster care in Austin, Texas

Implementation Strategies
This report chronicles the story of Austin’s In Home Services program. It is told in the voices of those leading the work. It is a story with multiple participants —... (Read more)
Prevention

FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Support Children and Families in Foster Care

Implementation Strategies
In honor of National Kinship Care Month, the Administration released a historic package of regulations to ensure children in the child welfare system thrive. Read the factsheet from the White... (Read more)
Kinship

Spotlight on Creating a More Equitable Child Welfare System

Advocacy Tools
Presentation/Webinar
Data / Research
Constituent Engagement
Implementation Strategies
This issue of CBX highlights the importance of prioritizing and advancing racial equity in child welfare. Read a message from Associate Commissioner Aysha E. Schomburg about the dream of creating... (Read more)
Overview / General

Kinship Promising Practices

Data / Research
Implementation Strategies
Case Study
Federal law, policy, and practice is shifting toward a kin-first culture, a child welfare system that consistently promotes immediate kinship placements, helps children in foster care maintain connections with kin,... (Read more)
Kinship

Strategies for Reducing Inequity: Casework Practice

Data / Research
Implementation Strategies
Casework strategies used to address disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system are often the same strategies used to improve outcomes for all children and families; however, agencies are... (Read more)
Prevention
Overview / General

Transition to Adulthood & Independent Living Outreach Toolkit

Advocacy Tools
Constituent Engagement
Implementation Strategies
Youth in foster care face several challenges as they approach adulthood and prepare for self-sufficiency and independent living, and many struggle to achieve self-reliance. Youth in out-of-home care may face... (Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee
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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

Resource Types

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  • Title IV-E Prevention Plan (54)

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American Academy of Pediatrics
American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
American Public Human Services Association
Annie E. Casey Foundation
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Children's Defense Fund
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Evident Change
Family Centered Treatment Foundation
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Foster Care Alumni of America

FosterClub
Generations United
Juvenile Law Center
Mathematica
National Association of Counsel for Children
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
National Indian Child Welfare Association
National Governors Association
Public Consulting Group
Within Our Reach 
Youth Villages

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