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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.

We Launched a Redesigned Child Welfare Information Gateway Website

Find tools and quickly on the redesigned Information Gateway website, which offers easy navigation, access to popular content from the homepage, and new interactive features.

www.childwelfare.gov

What’s New

Management & Supervision Web Section

Access resources designed to help child welfare managers and supervisors provide effective leadership and build and maintain a skilled workforce. Topics addressed include:

• Administering and managing child welfare agencies & programs
• Ethical practice & client rights
• Evaluating program, practice, & service effectiveness
• Disaster preparedness & response
• Funding
• Information systems & data
• Service improvement
• Supervising child welfare services
• System reform
• Training
• Workforce

www.childwelfare.gov/management

Online Learning Center

Build your child welfare knowledge with concise and easy-to-use educational resources and training tools for professionals, faculty, and students via the Learning Center, which includes:

• A State Managers Series summarizing research and providing State and local examples of specific strategies to support managers responsible for State child welfare programs
• An Educators’ Toolkit offering information and resources across a broad range of child welfare topics to enhance university curricula
• “How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery,” a factsheet presenting an overview of how Federal legislation and policy affect State and Tribal child welfare systems and service delivery
• COMING SOON: A self-guided training, “Introduction to Parent-Child Visits,” giving professionals insights about best practices for parent-child visits that can be applied in their work with children and parents

www.childwelfare.gov/learningcenter

In This Month’s CBX

The Fostering Connections Act is the spotlight topic in the July/August issue of Children’s Bureau Express (CBX). Articles focus on Family Connection grants, implications for kin, and resources for implementing the act, as well as other child welfare news of interest to professionals and policymakers in the interrelated fields of child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.

cbexpress.acf.hhs.gov

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Did You Know?

The Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series provides core competencies for child welfare and related professionals, including supervisors, caseworkers, court staff, and child care providers, and offers guidance on identifying, preventing, and responding effectively to child maltreatment. The most recent edition of this series, which began in 2000, addresses new issues and significant changes that have occurred in service delivery systems for children and families, including advances in research, practice, and policy.

Titles in the series include:

• Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment and Intervention
• Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
• Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers
• A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: The Foundation for Practice
• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children
• Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders
• The Role of Educators in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect
• The Role of Professional Child Care Providers in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect
• Supervising Child Protective Services Caseworkers
• Working with the Courts in Child Protection

www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanual.cfm

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