February 2012Vol. 13, No. 1More 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 added another topic to its Cultural Competency resources: Working With Military Families.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/cultural/families/military.cfm
There are also promotional videos for Adoption and Out-of-Home Care resources on the site.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/outofhome
http://www.childwelfare.gov/adoption - The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (AIA) will present an interactive seminar on February 7 on engaging new partners and maintaining partner relationships. For more information on the AIA's webinar series or to register, visit:
http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1029735 - The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) has posted an overview of the literature on secondary traumatic stress (STS) in the child welfare workforce, including descriptions of sources and symptoms of STS.
http://www.ncwwi.org/docs/Trauma_Informed_Systems_1pager20.pdf (159 KB) - The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) posts an index of 366 measures for child welfare data collection instruments that appear in datasets archived at NDACAN. Users can search the index by measure name and description.
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/abis/abisMeasuresIndex.cfm - The National Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response in Child Protective Services (QIC DR) has posted Formal Public Child Welfare Responses to Screened-Out Reports of Alleged Maltreatment.
http://www.differentialresponseqic.org/assets/docs/issue-3_10-31-11.pdf (314 KB)
QIC DR also has published a second version of Differential Response in Child Protective Services: A Literature Review, which was updated from its June 2009 edition.
http://www.differentialresponseqic.org/resources/qic-dr_lit_review-version-2.pdf (779 KB) - The National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System (QIC NRF) has published Father Friendly Check-Up for Child Protective Courts, which is a variation of a checkup tool created by the National Fatherhood Initiative. It measures the degree to which a court's operations encourage father involvement in the courtroom and through the court's administrative functions.
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/2011_build/child_law/ffcucourts_final.authcheckdam.pdf (268 KB) - The National Resource Center on Adoption (NRCA) has published a range of media resources that were presented at the "2011 Policy to Practice Dialogue: Making It Work in Child Welfare." The October meeting focused on practices and strategies for achieving permanency for youth. On the NRCA site are webcasts, PowerPoint presentations, photographs, and the conference booklet.
http://www.nrcadoption.org/programs/policy-to-practice/conference-2011/2011-powerpoint-presentations - The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) has posted a number of new resources:
- Materials from the webinar "Trauma-Informed Child Welfare," which discusses how trauma affects those in the child welfare system.
http://www.nrcpfc.org/teleconferences/2011-11-16/trauma%20informed%20child%20welfare%20bibliography.pdf (622 KB) - A webpage for materials from the conference "Child Welfare, Education and the Courts: A Collaboration to Strengthen Educational Successes of Children and Youth in Foster Care," which was sponsored in part by the Children's Bureau.
http://www.nrcpfc.org/education_summit - An updated list of State Child Abuse Registries.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/downloads/policy-issues/State_Child_Abuse_Registries.pdf (591 KB) - A video, "Let's Make It Better," which aims to promote awareness of harassment, bullying, and oppression that many young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth face.
http://www.nrcpfc.org/video/letsmakeitbetter
- Materials from the webinar "Trauma-Informed Child Welfare," which discusses how trauma affects those in the child welfare system.
- The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids (NRCRRFAP) has posted a 90-minute webinar, "Build Capacity to Make Lasting Change." To access the webinar, register here:
http://bit.ly/vQ5iVV
NRCRRFAP also has recruitment and retention resources for child welfare professionals on its new website.
http://www.adoptuskids.org/for-professionals/free-resources - The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health has published a systems of care issue brief: The Intersect of Health Reform and Systems of Care for Children and Youth With Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders and Their Families.
http://gucchdtacenter.georgetown.edu/publications/SOC_Brief_Series1_BL.pdf (722 KB)
The Center also has posted Putting the Pieces Together: A Toolkit on Developing Early Childhood Systems of Care, a collection of strategies, tips, and resources for promoting family engagement.
http://gucchdtacenter.georgetown.edu/early_childhood_SOC.html - The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership) has posted its latest newsletter, which features details on a video contest for youth and articles about innovative and promising activities in system of care communities.
http://www.tapartnership.org/newsletter/current.php