September 2024Vol. 25, No. 7Updates From the Children's Bureau's Training and Technical Assistance Partners

The Children's Bureau funds several technical assistance centers to provide professionals with tools to better serve children, youth, and families. The following are some of the latest resources from these partners.

Child Welfare Information Gateway 

• Reunificación después de cuidado de crianza: una guía para padres (Reunification From Foster Care: A Guide for Parents)
• Reunification From Foster Care: A Guide for Parents 

Visit the Information Gateway website for more.
  

Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative 

• Center for Courts 
• Center for States 
  • "Allying With Youth: Developing Life-Long Relationships and Supportive Networks" [Video]
  • CFSR Program Improvement Plan Readiness Checklist, Timelines, and Organization
  • Citizen Connections: Winter/Spring 2024
  • Family-Agency Leadership Academy:
    • Family-Agency Leadership Academy Assessment Tool
    • "Family Agency Leadership Academy: Creating Sustainable Change" [Video]
    • Family-Agency Leadership Academy: Introduction to Family Engagement and Empowerment [Podcast]
    • "Family-Agency Leadership Academy: Meaningful Partnerships Between Agencies and Families" [Video]
    • "Family Agency Leadership Academy: Peer-to-Peer Support" [Video]
  • Working With a Team to Select an Intervention That Meets Your Needs
• Center for Tribes Tribal Information Exchange 
  • Capacity Building Center for Tribes Pathway to Prevention
  • Capacity Building Center for Tribes Prevention Brief
  • Cross-Systems Resources to Support Healthy Generations
  • Cultural Guide for the Development of Tribal Child Welfare Products
  • "Cultural Guide for the Development of Tribal Child Welfare Products" [Webinar recording]
  • "Digital and Visual Strategies to Improve Tribal Child Welfare Practice" [Webinar recording]
  • Introduction to AFCARS for Tribal Child Welfare Programs
  • New Prevention Resources Webpage

Visit the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative website for more.

Children's Bureau Learning and Coordination Center (CBLCC) 

• "Creating and Sustaining Father Inclusion in Child Welfare" [Digital dialogue]
• "Keeping Families Connected: Supporting Parenting in the Context of Incarceration" [Digital dialogue]

Visit the CBLCC website for more.
  

FRIENDS National Resource Center 

• "CBCAP 101 New State Lead Orientation" [Webinar recording]
• "CBCAP Around the US 2024" [Webinar recording]
• "Force Multiplier" [Illustrated video]
• "July 2024 CBCAP Peer Learning Call – Navigating the Dynamics of Working in an Agency that Houses Prevention & Intervention Services" [Webinar recording]
• "La importancia de un padre como factor de protección" [Illustrated video]

Visit the FRIENDS National Resource Center website for more.

Center for Workforce Equity and Leadership (CWEL)

• Child Welfare Workforce Development Month 2024 campaign webpage
• "For Many Native Americans, the 4th of July Whitewashes History" [Blog post]
• "What Does it Mean for Workers to Be Well?" [Blog post]

Visit the Center for Workforce Equity and Leadership website for more.
  

National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services 

• "Child-Parent Therapy Has Biological Benefits for Traumatized Kids" [Blog post]
• "Embracing Self-Care: Essential Practices for Trauma-Informed Healing" [Blog post]
• "From Silence to Strength: How Adoption Competent Services Changed My Story" [Blog post]
• "Healing Together: Reducing Mental Health Inequities for BIPOC Families" [Blog post]
• "Intersectional Grief: Adoption, Race, and Finding Healing" [Blog post]
• "LGBTQIA+ Resource Guide" [Blog post]
• "Youth Voices in Trauma-Informed Care" [Blog post]

Visit the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services website for more.
  

National Center for Diligent Recruitment 

• "Enhancing Your Diligent Recruitment Through Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Parent Support" [Upcoming webinar information and registration]
• "Kinship as a Diligent Recruitment Strategy: Lessons Learned From Tribes" [Webinar registration]

Visit the National Center for Diligent Recruitment website for more.

National Center for Enhanced Post-Adoption Support 

• Building a Therapeutic Web: Creating Connections for Growth
• Continuous Quality Improvement for Enhancing Post-Permanency Programs
• "Post-Permanency Instability: Using Data to Identify Foster Care Reentries" [Webinar registration]

Visit the National Center for Enhanced Post-Adoption Support website for more.

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW) 

• Cannabis Tip Sheets Series:
  • Tip Sheet 1: Navigating the Complexities of Cannabis Use Among Parents and Adolescents in Child Welfare Services
  • Tip Sheet 2: Cannabis Use During Pregnancy: What Professionals Working With Pregnant People Need to Know
  • Tip Sheet 3: Cannabis Use: Considerations for Professionals Working With Children, Adolescents, Parents, and Other Family Members Involved in Child Welfare and the Courts
  • Tip Sheet 4: Cannabis and Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System
• Child Welfare Supervisor’s Practice Guides to Safety and Risk:
  • Practice Guide 1: A Child Welfare Supervisor’s Guide to Engagement and Safety Decision-Making in Substance Use Disorder Cases
  • Practice Guide 2: A Child Welfare Supervisor’s Guide to Planning for Safety in Cases When Parental Substance Use Disorder is Present

Visit the NCSACW website for more.
  

National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) 

• Intercultural Development Inventory Overview Video
• Interdisciplinary Approaches That Support Children and Their Families Reference List
• Interdisciplinary Education Skills Infographic
• Integrated Curriculum Guide for Social Work Practice With American Indians and Alaska Natives in Child Welfare
• National eUpdate – Final Newsletter, Learning, Leading, Changing – May 2024
• NCWWI Interdisciplinary Education Projects Video
• Work With Purpose Child Welfare Professional Recruitment Toolkit

Visit the NCWWI website for more.
  

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) 

• Florida Study of Professional for Safe Families, Waves 1-8
• National Youth in Transition Database - Services File, FY2011-2023

Visit the NDACAN website for more.

Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency (QIC-EY) 

• "QIC-EY NOW: Understand Child and Adolescent Development" [Video]
• "Transformational Leadership: Creating Pathways for Child and Youth Engagement" [Webinar registration]

Visit the QIC-EY website for more.

 

Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification (QIC-R) 

• Family-Centered Reunification Best Practice Assessment Tool
• "Transforming Reunification: Enhancing Family Time, Engaging Fathers, & Innovative Collaborations" [Webinar recording]
• Video Perspectives From the Field

Visit the QIC-R website for more.

 

Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Analytics (QIC-WA)

• QIC-WA 

Visit the QIC-WA website for more.
  

Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) 

• Final QIC-WD Newsletter 
• Addressing Work-Related Traumatic Stress
• Meaningful Work
• Organizational Socialization
• Workforce Research Catalog [Tool] 

Visit the QIC-WD website for more.

AdoptUSKids 

• "How Books Can Be Therapy: Plus, Reading Recommendations for Child Welfare Professionals" [Article] 
• "Reading as Healing: How Bibliotherapy Can Benefit Families" [Blog]

Visit the AdoptUSKids website for more.

James Bell Associates 

• The Future of Child Welfare Reform [Podcast]

Visit the James Bell Associates website for more.