June 2012Vol. 13, No. 5More 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 posted several updates to the following publications:
- The Risk and Prevention of Maltreatment of Children With Disabilities
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/prevenres/focus - Child Maltreatment 2010: Summary of Key Findings
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/canstats.cfm - Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities 2010: Statistics and Interventions
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/fatality.cfm - Foster Care Statistics 2010
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/foster.cfm - How the Child Welfare System Works
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/cpswork.cfm
Information Gateway also posted a new publication, State vs. County Administration of Child Welfare Services:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/services.cfm
- The Risk and Prevention of Maltreatment of Children With Disabilities
- The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (AIA) posted two new factsheets:
- Women and Children With HIV/AIDS
http://aia.berkeley.edu/media/factsheets/AIAFactSheet_WomenWithHIV_2012.pdf (844 KB) - Prenatal Substance Exposure
http://aia.berkeley.edu/media/factsheets/AIAFactSheet_PrenatalSubExposure_2012.pdf (707 KB)
- Women and Children With HIV/AIDS
- The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NCROI) will host a webinar on June 19 focused on the critical role that coaches, supervisors, and managers play in supporting practice change. Register here:
http://nrcoi.muskie.usm.maine.edu/website/pubs/TeleReg.asp - The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) launched two new training modules for child welfare supervisors. The six-part competency-based leadership program is part of the Leadership Academy for Supervisors. The Take the Lead program is a series of shorter skill-based modules. More information and enrollment forms are available on the NCROI website:
http://www.ncwwi.org/las/index.html - The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect recently released the dataset for the Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4):
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/NDACAN/Datasets/Abstracts/DatasetAbstract_147.html - The National Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response (QIC-DR) posted a Request for Applications (RFA) for up to two $25,000 scholarships to support doctoral research on differential response. The applications are due by June 29, 2012, and will be awarded in September 2012. The RFA is available on the QIC-DR's website:
http://www.differentialresponseqic.org/assets/docs/final-dd-rfa-march-2012-with.pdf (424 KB)
A list of questions and responses regarding the RFA is also available:
http://www.differentialresponseqic.org/dissertation-support-questions-and-responses.html - The National Resource Center for Child Protective Services (NRCCPS) posted materials from the annual State Liaison Officers/Children's Justice Act meeting in April:
http://nrccps.org/peer-networks/slocja-annual-meeting/ - The National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (NRC-CWDT) published a new edition of Tips, Tools, and Trends "Picking Solutions that Work":
http://www.nrccwdt.org/2012/04/tips-tools-and-trends-picking-solutions-that-work/ - The National Resource Center for In-Home Services (NRC In-Home) released a new publication, In-Home Services for Families of LGBTQ Youth:
http://nrcinhome.socialwork.uiowa.edu/resources/documents/LGBTissuebriefwithpractice.pdf (837 KB) - The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) posted its previously recorded webinar, in addition to other materials, "Engaging Child Welfare, Education, and Judicial Stakeholders at the State and Local Levels":
http://www.nrcpfc.org/teleconferences/2012-04-09.html
The webinar was the first in a series being offered to State team members and participants in the Child Welfare, Education and the Courts: A Collaboration to Strengthen Educational Successes of Children and Youth in Foster Care meeting. Read more about the collaborative group:
http://www.nrcpfc.org/education_summit/
The NRCPFC also posted the spring issue of its newsletter, Permanency Planning Today. The issue is the first in a two-part series on evidence-based practice:
http://nrcpfc.org/is/permanency_planning_today.html - The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids (NRCRRFAP) published a new tip sheet about dealing with depression in adopted teens. Depression in Teens Who Were Adopted: What Families Need to Know is available on the AdoptUSKids website:
http://wiadopt.org/Portals/WIAdopt/Tipsheets/PhysicalMental/TeenDepression.pdf (215 KB)
The NRCRRFAP also posted Agency Readiness Assessment for Interjurisdictional Placements:
http://adoptuskids.org/_assets/files/NRCRRFAP/resources/agency-readiness-assessment-for-interjurisdictional-placements.pdf - The National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues (NRCLJI) has a new URL:
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/child_law/what_we_do/projects/rclji.html - The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership) posted the April/May issue of the TA Partnership newsletter:
http://www.tapartnership.org/newsletter/archives/201204.php