September/October 2011Vol. 12, No. 7More Updates From the T&TA Network
The Children's Bureau's Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA) Network continues to produce resources that can help States and Tribes in their work with children and families. Some recent resources are listed below:
- The Atlantic Coast Child Welfare Implementation Center (ACCWIC) has produced a PowerPoint presentation that describes the "North Carolina R.E.A.P: Reaching Excellence and Accountability in Practice: ACCWIC Forum":
http://www.accwic.org/news_events/PDFs/2010_Files/North%20Carolina%20Presentation.pdf (665 KB) - Child Welfare Information Gateway has published more new resources and updates:
- Understanding Child Welfare and the Courts (a new factsheet for families):
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/cwandcourts.cfm - Three updated publications: About CAPTA: A Legislative History (http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/about.cfm), Family Reunification: What the Evidence Shows (http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/issue_briefs/family_reunification), and Major Federal Legislation Concerned With Child Protection, Child Welfare, and Adoption (http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/otherpubs/majorfedlegis.cfm)
- A refreshed and updated web section on Interagency and Cross System Collaboration:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/management/practice_improvement/collaboration
- Understanding Child Welfare and the Courts (a new factsheet for families):
- The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (AIA) will host a teleconference on September 14 at 10 a.m. PST, "Addressing Poverty as a Risk Factor in Child Neglect":
http://aia.berkeley.edu/training/teleconference/teleconference_series_2011.php - The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NCROI) has instituted a Practice Model Peer Network to focus on issues associated with developing and implementing practice models:
http://www.nrcoi.org/PracticeModelNetwork.htm
NRCOI also has posted a schedule of fall webinars at http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/tele.htm:- September 29: Performance-Based Contracting and Quality Assurance: Building Systems to Support Success will highlight lessons learned by the Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services (QIC-PCW) about structuring and monitoring performance-based contracting in public-private partnerships.
- October 25: Resources for Supervisory Training will demonstrate the information on the NRCOI website about State approaches to child welfare supervisory training and support.
- November 29: Implementing and Sustaining Practice Models will showcase presenters from two States further along in implementation who will share the steps they took to move their practice model from paper into practice.
- The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) announces the kickoff of its National Webinar Series, which begins September 21 with "What Works for the Workforce: Leadership Competencies in Action":
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/664653850 - The National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (NRCCWDT) has a "groupsite" available for discussions, blogs, events, jobs, email blasts, and more. Current topics under discussion include rules that agencies use for social networking sites and the statement from the Government Accountability Office that estimates of child fatalities are likely too low:
http://nrccwdt.groupsite.com/main/summary - The National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (FRIENDS) has posted slides and handouts from the recent webinar "Building Organizational Resilience: Bolstering Sustainability: Part 2":
http://www.friendsnrc.org/teleconference-and-webinar-archive/2011-teleconference-and-webinar-archive/269-july-2011-building-organizational-resilience-bolstering-sustainability-part-2 - The National Resource Center for In-Home Services (NRC In-Home) has posted an annotated bibliography, Services for Pregnant and Parenting Youth in or Exiting Substitute Care:
http://www.nrcinhome.socialwork.uiowa.edu/resources/index.shtml - The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) has posted a number of new resources:
- "Organizational Self-Study on Educational Stability," an assessment tool to review educational provisions in the Fostering Connections Act:
http://www.nrcpfc.org/projects-and-products.html - A new section on its website: Emancipating and/or Older Youth Connections, with resources from States and Tribes, evidence-based practice, and more:
http://www.nrcpfc.org/fostering_connections/emancipating_older_youth.html - The audio recording and handouts for "Engaging Fathers in Child Welfare," a teleconference held July 13, 2011:
http://www.nrcpfc.org/teleconferences/07-13-11.html
- "Organizational Self-Study on Educational Stability," an assessment tool to review educational provisions in the Fostering Connections Act:
- The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids (NRCRRFAP) has posted a new PowerPoint presentation, "Social Media Basics: Social Networking in Child Welfare," which includes the section "Using Social Media to Engage and Support Families, What AdoptUSKids Has Learned":
http://adoptuskids.org/images/documents/AdoptUSKids-Webinar-Slides-Social-Media-June-2011.pdf (5.26 MB)
NRCRRFAP also has published a tip sheet, Moving Toward Cultural Competence: Key Considerations to Explore:
www.adoptuskids.org/images/resourceCenter/Moving-Toward-Cultural-Competence.pdf (604 KB) - The National Resource Center for Tribes (NRC4Tribes) has a newly redesigned website. It features announcements such as the Native American Youth Challenge program and its trio of Tribal gatherings that focus on the Fostering Connections Act, the third of which will happen in Minneapolis on September 13-14. Cohosts for the gatherings are the NRCOI and the NRCPFC:
http://www.nrc4tribes.org - The National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System (QIC NRF) has posted a judicial bench card, Engaging Fathers in Child Protection Cases by Understanding Male Help-Seeking and Learning Styles:
http://fatherhoodqic.org/engaging_fathers_judge_card2.pdf (176 KB) - The National Quality Improvement Center for the Representation of Children in Child Welfare (QIC ChildRep) has selected two partners to implement its Best Practice Model of Child Representation: the Georgia Supreme Court Committee on Justice for Children and the Center for Children & Youth Justice (as staff to the Washington State Supreme Court Commission on Children in Foster Care):
http://improvechildrep.org/DemonstrationProjects/ResearchDemonstrationSites.aspx - The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership) TA Partnership Newsletter for June/July has articles about family-driven service delivery and governance, highlights on activities from system of care communities, and more:
http://www.tapartnership.org/newsletter/archives/201106.php
The TA Partnership has updated its Crosswalk to Implementing Your Cooperative Agreement: 2011, a guide for first-year communities in implementing cooperative agreements in developing systems of care:
http://www.tapartnership.org/docs/Crosswalk.pdf (1.57 MB)