Training and Technical Assistance Updates

Among other updates from the T&TA Network, read about the National Resource Center for Adoption's (NRCA's) readiness assessment tool to help States, Tribes, and territories evaluate assets and readiness to provide postpermanence supports and services for children, youth, and families.

• NRCA's Readiness Assessment Tool
• NRCCPS' Training and Technical Assistance

• More Updates From the T&TA Network

Child Welfare Research

This month, CBX points to a new issue of CW360° that is focused on well-being in child welfare, new products to help spread the messages from a 2013 report on child abuse research, and an article on a project initiated by the National Center for Youth Law to examine the problem of unwanted pregnancy among youth in foster care.

• New CW360º Focuses on Well-Being
• Examining Economic and Social Data Across Ethnic Groups

• New Dissemination Tools for CAN Research Report
• Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care
• Transitional Living Program Evaluation

Strategies and Tools for Practice

This section of CBX offers publications, articles, reports, toolkits, and other instruments that provide either evidence-based strategies or other concrete help to child welfare and related professionals.

• Keeping Immigrant Families Together
• Services and Supports That Reduce Toxic Stress
• Trauma-Focused Courts

• Youth Credit Preservation in Wisconsin

Resources

This CBX section provides a quick list of interesting resources, such as websites, videos, journals, funding or scholarship opportunities, or other materials that can be used in the field or with families.

• Helping Children Cope With Death and Trauma
• Medicaid Service Delivery for Children and Youth

• New Report, Webpage on Reducing Child Poverty

Training and Conferences

• Training Youth Advocates on Health-Care Law
• Conferences