Best Practices in Dependency:Planned, Purposeful, and Progressive Visitation
Court Improvement Training Academy
Rose Wentz, Consultant for the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Permanency Planning, discusses how to have safe and successful visits. Rose covers the definition of visits per federal law and best practice standards as well as the connections a child needs while in care. With audience interaction she reviews a four-step decision making process for developing a visit plan to meet a child’s needs and enable parents to improve parenting skills. She also looks at how to develop a visit plan that will meet the goal of allowing children to have a safe visit in the most natural and home-like situation.
Center for the Advancement of Child Welfare Practice
The Center supports Florida’s child welfare professionals in achieving practice excellence and developing communities of practice to help keep kids safe.
Child Advocacy 360 News Network is an independent, nonprofit service that brings to people’s desktops, mailboxes and conversations the latest news and insights on children’s welfare and rights, with a particular focus on the struggle to conquer abuse and neglect of children in our society.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Resources in Spanish
Child Welfare Information Gateway has launched its new Resources in Spanish web section at www.childwelfare.gov/spanish, replacing the En Español web section. Designed for child welfare professionals who work with Spanish-speaking families, the section includes their glossary of English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English child welfare terms, as well as topically organized resources on:
- Child abuse and neglect
- Preventing and responding to child abuse and neglect
- Supporting and preserving families
- Out-of-home care
- Adoption
Resources are available in both Spanish and English, and many can be viewed, downloaded, or ordered for free.
Child Welfare Training Resources Project
Online Network of Child Welfare Training Resources. The Network is designed to enable State trainers, practitioners, social work educators and other stakeholders to locate the most current training information and materials for the child welfare workforce.
Child Welfare Workforce and Training Resources
Strategies for Strengthening the Child Welfare Workforce
Hawaii’s differential response system, implemented in 2005, has already shown compelling positive outcomes for children and families and for the caseworkers who provide services. In a recent interview, John Walters, the Program Development Administrator for the Department of Human Services, talked with Children’s Bureau Express (CBX) about the development and implementation of this significant systems change.
Children’s Bureau Express: Florida’s IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project
In 2006, Florida implemented a 5-year waiver from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, which allowed the State to use title IV-E funds for child welfare services other than direct foster care. Eighteen months later, a new issue brief reports on early efforts to improve child welfare outcomes by using the flexible funding to expand programs and services.
Children’s Bureau Express: Intensive Family Preservation Services Toolkit
The National Family Preservation Network (NFPN), which promotes Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS) programs, has introduced a new toolkit to accommodate the most recent research on family preservation. IFPS programs are concentrated in-home services designed to prevent unnecessary out-of-home placement of children.
New and Revised Child Abuse and Neglect User Manuals
Since the last update of the Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series in the early 1990s, a number of changes have occurred that dramatically affect the response to child maltreatment, including advances in research, practice, and policy. This third edition of the User Manual Series reflects the increased knowledge and the evolving state of practice and address trends and concerns relevant to today’s professionals.
Disclosure of Confidential Child Abuse and Neglect Records
Disclosure of Confidential Child Abuse and Neglect Records
This State Statutes Series publication provides summaries of statutes detailing the officials who may have access to confidential records in each State and the circumstances under which such information may be disclosed.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Family Reunification: What the Evidence Shows
Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway
Family reunification in child welfare refers to the process of returning children in temporary out-of-home care to their families of origin. Reunification is both the most common goal for children in out-of-home care as well as the most common outcome.