September 2010Vol. 11, No. 7Updates 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 has redesigned its website! The new design offers easy navigation, access to popular content from the homepage, and new interactive features.
http://www.childwelfare.gov
Information Gateway now offers the Learning Center, which presents child welfare knowledge with concise and easy-to-use educational resources and training tools for professionals, researchers, and students. One of the newest resources on the Learning Center is a training, "Introduction to Parent-Child Visits," designed to provide guidance to workers.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/learningcenter
Information Gateway also has two new publications for child welfare practitioners:- Family Engagement
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_fam_engagement - Caseload and Workload Management
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/case_work_management
- Family Engagement
- The Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center (MCWIC) is collaborating with Iowa's Department of Human Services to implement the Parent Partner Approach statewide. The work plan, logic model, and initial planning stages were discussed in a recent webinar.
http://www.mcwic.org/events/20100629-media.php - The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (AIA) has published AIA Project Profiles, a report that describes its currently funded projects, which address the needs of families affected by substance abuse and/or HIV.
http://aia.berkeley.edu/media/pdf/AIAProjectProfiles2011_ver16_Color.pdf (1.14 MB) - The National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW) has posted a PowerPoint presentation, "Drug Testing in Child Welfare: A Discussion of Practice and Policy Considerations."
http://www.cffutures.org/files/presentation-pdfs/DrugTestingPresentation_05202010.pdf (245 KB) - The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NCROI) and the National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (NRC-CWDT) have produced a PowerPoint presentation, "Strengthening Child Welfare Supervision: A Participatory Design Process."
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/rcpdfs/StrengtheningCWSupervisionProcess.ppt
The NRCOI has also produced a factsheet on the same topic:
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/rcpdfs/Strengthening%20Supervision%20Fact%20Sheet%202010.pdf (156 KB) - The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) has produced several new resources:
- Ten Years of Workforce and Leadership Development Initiatives, Training and Technical Assistance Activities, and Related Products: A Resource Guide 2000-2010.
http://www.ncwwi.org/docs/TTA_Workforce_and_Leadership_Resource_Guide_July_2010.pdf (566 KB) - Leadership Competency Framework
http://www.ncwwi.org/docs/LeaderCompFrame_latest.pdf (1.81 MB) - Disseminating Child Welfare Workforce Knowledge and Information to the Field: A White Paper
http://www.ncwwi.org/docs/Dissemination_in_Child_Welfare-A_Briefing_Paper_6-7-10.pdf (944 KB)
- Ten Years of Workforce and Leadership Development Initiatives, Training and Technical Assistance Activities, and Related Products: A Resource Guide 2000-2010.
- The National Quality Improvement Center on Child Representation in the Child Welfare System (QIC-ChildRep) is assembling one of the first compilations of existing knowledge on legal representation of children in child welfare cases, with a goal of including all statutes, legal authority, academic writings, and social science research.
http://improvechildrep.org/StateofChildRepresentation.aspx
The center also has a newly redesigned website:
http://www.improvechildrep.org - The National Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response in Child Protective Services (QIC-DR) has published Differential Response Approach in Child Protective Services: An Analysis of State Legislative Provisions:
http://www.differentialresponseqic.org/assets/docs/differential-response.pdf (462 KB) - The National Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (QIC-EC) has selected four research and demonstration projects to test the effects of collaboration in strengthening families and reducing the likelihood of maltreatment. Read about them in its June newsletter:
http://qic-ec.trilogyinteractive.com/documents/research-and-findings/other-resources/QIC-EC-Newsletter_June_2010.pdf (242 KB) - The National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System (QIC-NRF) has posted an annotated bibliography for articles that cover fatherhood issues in law publications and cases.
http://www.fatherhoodqic.org/qicnrf_updated_legal_lit_review_2010.doc (1,137 KB)
The QIC-NRF has co-produced Engaging Noncustodial Fathers in Child Welfare Cases: A Guide for Children's Attorneys and Lawyer Guardians ad Litem.
http://www.fatherhoodqic.org/children_atty_gal_brief_final.pdf (4,198 KB) - The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) has posted its summer issue of Permanency Planning Today, which focuses on inclusive child welfare practice as it relates to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning populations:
http://www.nrcpfc.org/newsletter/ppt-summer-2010.pdf (6,175 KB)
NRCPFC now has a Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Resource-Center-for-Permanency-and-Family-Connections/129385660431511?v=wall
NRCPFC has published a recent webcast titled "Visit Coaching: Building on Family Strengths to Meet Children's Needs":
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-6988.2007.00004.x/pdf (83 KB) - The National Resource Center for Youth Development (NRCYD) and the National Resource Center on Child Welfare Data and Technology (NRC-CWDT) have produced a technical assistance brief, Surveying Youth With Special Needs or Limited English Proficiency, which discusses accommodations to help all youth participate in the National Youth in Transition Database survey.
https://www.nrccwdt.org/resources/nytd/docs/NYTD_TA_%20Brief_3_Surveying_Special_Populations.pdf (110 KB) - The National Technical Assistance and Evaluation Center for Systems of Care Grantees (NTAEC) has published a new report in its series, A Closer Look, which focuses on accountability in child welfare.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/acloserlook/accountability - The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health (TA Center) is hosting four webinars:
- September 16: "Designing a Recovery-Oriented Care Model for Adolescents and Transition Age Youth With Substance Use or Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders"
- October 21: "Making the Case for Partnerships Between School Mental Health and Community Services: The Use of Evaluation Data to Strengthen These Partnerships"
- November 18: "Healthy Transitions to Adulthood: Policy Implementation"
- December 16: "Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children and Families in the Child Welfare System"
- The Northeast and Caribbean Child Welfare Implementation Center (NCIC) and New Jersey's Department of Children and Families, with additional help from the NRCOI, has published “Manage by Data” National Promising Practice Findings:
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/ncic/assets/Final%20Managing%20by%20Data%20Promising%20Practice%20Report%20June%2016%202010.pdf (129 KB)