February 2010Vol. 11, No. 1Updates 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:
- Child Welfare Information Gateway is on Facebook! Visit the page for news and updates:
www.facebook.com/childwelfare
Information Gateway’s Disaster Preparedness & Response web section has been streamlined and updated with more recent and relevant resources, and it has a new URL:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/management/disaster_preparedness - Mountains and Plains Child Welfare Implementation Center (MPCWIC) recently posted Round 1 Implementation Projects for Colorado and New Mexico and Round 2 Implementation Projects for Utah, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, and the Skun-eyah (Garden) Project in North Dakota.
http://www.uta.edu/mpcwic/projects - The National Resource Center for Adoption recently released a new issue of its newsletter, The Roundtable, with articles focusing on timeliness to adoption. Read about programs in four jurisdictions that have improved the timely placement of children in permanent homes.
http://www.nrcadoption.org/pdfs/roundtable/V24N1-2010.pdf (782 KB) - National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) has several additions to its website:
- A new "hot topic"—Homeless Families and Child Welfare
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/homeless-families-and-child-welfare.html - A new information packet, Placement Stability, by Teija Sudol
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/Placement_Stability_Info_Pack.htm
- A new "hot topic"—Homeless Families and Child Welfare
- National Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NRCOI) will soon post its 2010 winter/spring schedule of teleconferences and webinars. Check for the new posting to find topics and speakers for upcoming presentations.
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/tele.htm - National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect has made available the First National Juvenile Online victimization Study, which examines the incidence and characteristics of cases such as sexual exploitation and child pornography in the criminal justice system.
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/NDacan/datasets/abstracts/datasetabstract_135.html - National Resource Center for Adoption has posted on its website a PowerPoint presentation, "Successful Strategies in Achieving Youth Permanency." It describes the findings and accomplishments of grantee projects nearing the end of their funding period.
http://www.nrcadoption.org/pdfs/ypc/Successful Strategies in Achieving Youth Permanency - Final.pdf - National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (FRIENDS) has added a new course about parent leadership, Creating Effective Parent-Practitioner Partnerships, to its Online Learning Center. The course is free.
http://friends.cequick.com/search.aspx?keyword=parent+leadership - Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood has commissioned three papers this past year, which are posted on its website.
- An Assessment of Services Partnerships Affecting Younger Children
http://www.qic-ec.org/documents/research-and-findings/research-commissioned-papers/An-Assessment-of-Services-Partnerships-Affecting-Younger-Children.pdf (290 KB) - Indicators for Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs
http://www.qic-ec.org/documents/research-and-findings/research-commissioned-papers/Indicators-for-Child-Maltreatment-Prevention-Programs.pdf (512 KB) - Response to Indicators for Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs
http://www.qic-ec.org/documents/research-and-findings/research-commissioned-papers/Response-to-Indicators-for-Child-Maltreatment-Prevention-Programs.pdf (189 KB)
- An Assessment of Services Partnerships Affecting Younger Children
- Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services and the University of Kentucky College of Social Work have published An Annotated Bibliography on Child Welfare Privatization and Public/Private Partnership, Performance Based Contracting, and Quality Assurance Systems Publications Since 2005, by Ramie Martin-Galijatovic. This supplements and updates two literature reviews on child welfare privatization and on performance-based contracting and quality assurance systems for child welfare.
www.uky.edu/SocialWork/qicpcw/assessment.htm
