March 2011Vol. 12, No. 2More 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:
- Child Welfare Information Gateway has launched several new and updated webs sections:
- National Prevention Month:
www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/preventionmonth - Ethical Issues in Adoption:
www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/adopt_ethics - Child Welfare Practice Improvement:
www.childwelfare.gov/management/practice_improvement
- National Prevention Month:
- The National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (FRIENDS) spotlights South Carolina evidence-based home visiting (EBHV) grantees in the December 2010 issue of the newsletter, EBVH Connector:
www.supportingebhv.org/resources/newsletter - The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCFPC) has posted two documents about States' successful education and child welfare collaborations developed to meet requirements in the Fostering Connections Act:
- Child Welfare/Education Collaborations (Highlights):
www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/download/ChildWelfareandEducation2pgr.pdf (403 KB) - Child Welfare Education Collaborations (Full Review):
www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/download/ChildWelfare_and_Education.pdf (284 KB)
- Child Welfare/Education Collaborations (Highlights):
- The National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues (NRCLJI) has a redesigned website:
www.abanet.org/child/rclji - The Western and Pacific Child Welfare Implementation Center has posted eight videos from its August 2010 Alaska Child Welfare Disproportionality Reduction Project's Conference. Four of the videos describe Hawaii's child welfare reform experiences, including the State's implementation of differential response:
http://westpac.fmhi.usf.edu/home/Pages/centralcouncil.aspx