Child Welfare Research

We highlight the advantages of utilizing multidisciplinary advocacy for families in need, best practices to improve legal representation for children involved with child welfare, and more.

• Individualized Advocacy to Support Families in Detroit
• Evaluating Best Practices for Improving Child Legal Representation in Child Welfare Cases
• Literature Database Includes All Articles on Child Representation

• Multidisciplinary Teams Improve Legal Resolution, Family Preservation in Child Welfare Cases

Strategies and Tools for Practice

This section of CBX offers publications, articles, reports, toolkits, and other resources that provide either evidence-based strategies or other concrete help to child welfare and related professionals.

• On Legal Representation
• Ensuring Quality Family Visits During Foster Care to Promote Earlier, Safer Reunifications

• Improving Child Welfare Through Judicial Leadership
• Defining the 'It': Helping Teams Understand, Implement, and Observe Improvements

Resources

Learn about how quality indicators related to parent representation can ensure that vulnerable families are receiving high-quality representation and how the Court Improvement Program Talks provide information on how the legal and judicial communities can collaborate with partners to better serve vulnerable families and help improve outcomes.

• Measuring Parents' Legal Representation

• Court Improvement Program Talks

Training and Conferences

• Blended In-Person and Online Preservice Training for Resource Parents
• Conferences