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The following new or updated publications and resources are now available from Child Welfare Information Gateway. Use the links listed below, or contact us to request a print copy, if available.
What’s New
Preplacement Adoption Casework Practice Web Section
Find a variety of resources for recruiting, preparing, and retaining foster and adoptive parents. These resources can help you in your work: reuniting children and families, arranging interjurisdictional placement and intercountry adoptions, encouraging openness, caring for the caregiver, and addressing secondary trauma for workersall in the context of culturally competent practice.
www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/preplacement
Syntheses of Discretionary Grant Outcomes and Lessons Learned
The Children’s Bureau awards discretionary grants for demonstration projects that test innovative approaches and develop knowledge on a wide range of child welfare issues. Syntheses of the findings from specific clusters of projects funded under a single funding opportunity announcement are published online along with site visit reports. The syntheses describe grantees’ common challenges, strategies, outcomes, and lessons learned, and include a bibliography of grantee products.
www.childwelfare.gov/management/funding/funding_sources/cbreports.cfm
Accreditation and Standard-Setting Organizations
Use this list to find contact information for national organizations that provide agency or member accreditation and standard-setting for child welfare services.
www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/reslist/rl_dsp.cfm?svcID=164&rate_chno=W-00024
Updates
Domestic Violence and the Child Welfare System
Understand the extent of the overlap between domestic violence and child maltreatment, some of the effects of family violence on child witnesses, and the trend toward a more collaborative, communitywide response to domestic violence. This bulletin also features promising practices from States and local communities.
www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/domestic_violence
State and Tribal CFSP/APSR Information
Access all the information and forms you need to develop State and Tribal Child and Family Service Plans (CFSPs) and Annual Progress and Services Reports (APSRs) in one central location. Available tools include technical assistance documents and materials, as well as references to specific laws, policies, and checklists that relate to the development of the CFSP/APSR.
Tools for States: www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/programs_fund/toolkit/state.htm
Tools for Tribes: www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/programs_fund/toolkit/tribal.htm
In This Month’s CBX
The June issue of Children’s Bureau Express (CBX) spotlights “Engaging Fathers” and the importance of fathers and paternal relatives in the lives of children involved with the child welfare system. Articles focus on federally funded efforts to study and promote father involvement, as well as promising practices from the field.
Also featured is a brief video that describes the features and benefits of CBX, which you can share with your colleagues.
CBX covers news, issues, and trends of interest to professionals and policymakers in the interrelated fields of child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
Did You Know?
Federal laws provide standards and guidelines for child welfare issues, but States’ laws and regulations govern those issues. Learn about States’ laws by searching Information Gateway’s State Statutes database. You can find information in the database in two ways—either click on one of more than 30 titles related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption for a short introduction, or search the database for the details of a specific State’s statutes.
www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/state
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