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March 2012Vol. 13, 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 posted updates to the following publications:
  • National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (AIA) is sponsoring the webinar "Methods for Increasing Medication Adherence With HIV Positive Parents." Presenters will summarize interventions that social service providers can implement to help increase their clients' medication adherence. Sign up for the March 7 event on AIA's website.
    http://aia.berkeley.edu/training/webinar/webinar_series_2012.php
  • National Child Welfare Center for Organizational Improvement (NRCOI) is launching its spring series of webinars beginning March 27 with "Getting to Outcomes: An Approach to Implementing Systemic Change." For information about registration and future webinars, visit the website.
    http://www.nrcoi.org/tele.htm
  • The National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues (NRCLJI) posted the audio portion and corresponding slides for its recent webinar on "Education Outcome Measures for Courts." The webinar discussed newly released court measures of educational outcomes for children and youth in foster care.
    http://www.americanbar.org/groups/child_law/projects_initiatives/rclji/education0.html
  • The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) published the user's guide to the Second National Juvenile Online Victimization Incidence Study (NJOV-2). Researchers collected information on Internet sex crimes against minors, as well as law enforcement efforts to combat these crimes, in this update to the original (2004) study.
    http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/Ndacan/Datasets/UserGuidePDFs/162user.pdf  (139 KB)
  • The National Resource Center for Child Protective Services (NRCCPS) posted its January issue of State Liaison Officer E-Newsletter. Topics include medication assisted treatment, questions and answers about the updates to the Children's Bureau's Child Welfare Policy Manual, and newly released data and Federal reporting resources.
    http://nrccps.org/documents/2012/pdf/January_2012_SLO_Newsletter.pdf (288 KB)
  • The National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (NRC-CWDT) recently published the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) Guide to the Data Elements, which has compiled information issued by the Children's Bureau into a reference for the 58 NYTD data elements and each element's allowable values, data compliance checks, and data quality advisories.
    http://www.nrccwdt.org/2011/11/nytd-guide-to-the-data-elements
  • The National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (FRIENDS) posted the Winter 2012 edition of the Parents and Practitioners Newsletter. Produced by the FRIENDS' Parent Advisory Council, this issue features articles about bullying, Head Start, and the 18th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect.
    http://friendsnrc.org/parent-advisory-council/parent-and-practitioner-newsletter
    FRIENDS also announced that the January 2012 edition of EBHV Connector is available on the Supporting Evidence Based Home Visiting website:
    http://supportingebhv.org/resources/newsletter
  • The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) is hosting a follow-up teleconference on March 14 about Child Welfare, Education, and the Courts and a webcast on March 28: "Oversight of Psychotropic Medication Use Among Youth in Foster Care." Access details on the NRC's website:
    http://nrcpfc.org/events/schedule.html
  • The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids (NRCRRFAP) posted a widget, developed with the Children's Bureau and the Ad Council for the national recruitment campaign, which translates popular acronyms used by preteens. Access and share the widget on the AdoptUSKids website
    http://www.adoptuskids.org/news-and-announcements/announcements/story?k=tween-translator
  • The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health (the Center) will host a webinar on March 15 titled "Linking Primary Care and Systems of Care: Innovation at the State and Community Levels to Support the Social and Emotional Well Being of All Children."
    http://gucchdtacenter.georgetown.edu/resources/2012calls.html
  • The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership) welcomes members of system of care grant communities as well as partnering organizations, family members, colleagues, and others concerned with child welfare topics to join its community of practice. TA Partnership accepts suggestions for subjects to discuss and may schedule a call or virtual learning event to focus on that topic.
    http://tapartnership.org/content/childWelfare/getConnected.php