May 2012Vol. 13 No. 4More 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 a new publication, Home Study Requirements for Prospective Parents in Domestic Adoption:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/homestudyreqs_adoption.cfm
Information Gateway also posted updates to the following publications:- How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/impacts - Helping Your Foster Child Transition to Your Adopted Child:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_transition.cfm - Foster Parents Considering Adoption:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_fospar.cfm - Concurrent Planning: What the Evidence Shows:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/issue_briefs/concurrent_evidence
- How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery:
- The National Resource Center for Child Protective Services (NRCCPS) posted materials from its February 2012 webinar, "Coordination of Child Death Review and Citizens Review Panels: Maximizing the Opportunities to Improve Systems and Prevent Fatal Abuse and Neglect":
http://nrccps.org/
The NRCCPS also posted several materials from the Children’s Bureau webinar focused on highlights from the annual Child Maltreatment Data Reports:
http://nrccps.org/information-dissemination/child-maltreatment-data/child-maltreatment-2010-data/
The NRCCPS also added Indiana's updated Structured Decision Making System for Child Protective Services Policy and Procedure Manual to the Decision-Making Tools Library:
http://nrccps.org/information-dissemination/1249-2/indiana/ - The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (AIA) posted materials from its webinar, "Methods for Increasing Medication Adherence With HIV Positive Parents":
http://aia.berkeley.edu/training/webinar/webinar_series_2012.php - The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NCROI) will host its next Peer Training Network call as a joint session with its National Webinar taking place on June 19, 2012, at 2:30 p.m. ET. Information is available on the NRCOI website:
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/TrainingNetwork.htm - The National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues (NRCLJI) posted a new publication by the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education, Fostering Connections Implementation Toolkit, which helps States and advocates with implementation of the education provisions of the Fostering Connections act:
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/child/education/publications/toolkit_combined_with_cover.authcheckdam.pdf (5 MB) - The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) posted its latest (26-page) list of resources to support participants in the Leadership Academy for Middle Managers (LAMM). Websites, reports, training materials, and more are listed to help child welfare practitioners in their practice:
http://www.ncwwi.org/docs/LAMM_Change_Initiatives_Online_Resources_Dallas2012.pdf (987 KB) - The National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (NRC-CWDT) published a special edition of Tips, Tools, and Trends: Special Edition "Data Considerations for Fostering Connections." The publication provides tips and tricks to using data and technology to implement the act's provisions:
http://www.nrccwdt.org/2012/03/ttt-fostering-connection/ - The National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (FRIENDS) launched a new social media website with discussion forums, videos, event information, and more:
http://networkforaction.ning.com/
FRIENDS also posted the recording of and materials for the first part of its two-part webinar, "What Being Trauma Informed Means for Prevention Programs: Part I:"
http://friendsnrc.org/teleconference-and-webinar-archive/2012-teleconference-and-webinar-archive/285-march-2012-trauma-informed-part-1 - The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) posted the recording of its March webinar, "Psychotropic Medication Use Among Children and Youth in Care," which focuses on best practices regarding use, oversight, and monitoring of use of psychotropic medications by children/youth in foster care:
http://www.nrcpfc.org/webcasts/26.html - The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids (NRCRRFAP) posted the new IRS instructions for the adoption tax credit:
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=235825,00.html/ http://www.adoptuskids.org/ - The National Resource Center for Tribes (NRC4Tribes), with the Children's Bureau, will host two Pathways to Title IV-E meetings in May, one in Minnesota and one in New Mexico. Each meeting is designed for Tribes actively planning to develop title IV-E foster care services through direct access. More information and attendance applications are available on the NRC's website:
http://pathways.nrc4tribes.org/
The NRC4Tribes also posted the video Support the Strengthening of the Tribal Child Welfare Program Infrastructure to Improve Practice Webinar, which is a recording of the first in a series of webinars on the needs assessment recommendations:
http://www.nrc4tribes.org/announcements/videowebinar1 - The National Resource Center for Youth Development (NRCYD) published the April issue of Youth Port covering issues such as summer job opportunities and the Summer Jobs+ Jobs Bank, the free consumer information tool, College Navigator, and more:
http://www.nrcyd.ou.edu/youth-port - The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health (the Center) will host Part 3 of its three-part question and answer discussion series, "Getting Practical: Developing Your State Plan for Psychotropic Medication Management," on June 5, 3–4 p.m. (ET). Register here:
https://www4.georgetown.edu/uis/keybridge/keyform/form.cfm?FormID=4441