What are two examples of helplines operated by child protection agencies?
Learn how agency-operated helplines in Washington, D.C., and New York City were developed and are being implemented.
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How do helplines support children and families?
Explore how helplines can proactively connect families to services and prevent unnecessary involvement in the child welfare system.
How do lived experts define and assess child safety?
Understand how child safety is defined and assessed from the perspectives of individuals with lived experience in the child welfare system.
What are some examples of safety and risk assessments?
This information packet provides an overview of the tools that child protection agencies use most often to assess the safety of children.
The power of kinship care
Curated collection of resources around agencies designing and implementing kin-first practices.
What roles can elders play to help children thrive and prevent them from entering foster care?
Learn lessons from American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian elders who pass down wisdom to help Indigenous children thrive.
What are examples of updated mandated reporter education, training, and tools?
Explore strategies underway in three jurisdictions for reforming mandated reporting through updated education and training.
What are some screening and assessment tools that help support children’s well-being?
This information packet aids in selecting screening and assessment tools that support child well-being and informs case decision-making.
Does immigration-related family separation impact child well-being?
Learn from a research study that examines the impacts of separating Latino youth from their parents due to detention or deportation.
What are some strategies for finding and keeping resource families?
Explore effective strategies that child protection agencies can use to recruit and retain traditional and therapeutic resource families.
How have some child protection agencies recruited and retained resource families?
Learn how New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Washington state have recruited and retained resource families.
What are family-based placements?
Learn about a range of family-based placement settings that are tailored to the needs of the child being placed in foster care.
Raising hope in Allegheny County
A commitment to a kin-first culture means the world to families in Pennsylvania.
Knowing your roots
Thanks to Kinnect, Theo was placed with fictive kin and is connected to his siblings and extended family.
‘I don’t know who I would be’
Thanks to kinship care, Keeton Byerly was raised by his grandfather instead of being placed into foster care.
Connecting with kin in Ohio
Kinnect offers services that enable and support kinship placements. That makes all the difference to siblings like Jonathon and Chrishonna.
Baltimore: ‘All in for kin’
The KinCare Center is a physical representation of Baltimore City DSS’s commitment to supporting kinship families.
Support means Bristol can stay with family
Thanks to state-provided support, Bristol was able to receive specialized care from her grandmother after being separated from her mother.
Q&A: Kin-first culture in California
California’s child welfare leaders explain why the state focuses on kinship care and supporting kinship caregivers in this Q&A.
How does sudden income loss impact child maltreatment risk?
Learn from a research study that examines how sudden drops in income can contribute to the risk of child maltreatment.