Child Welfare Research

Read about a recent brief from the Center for the Study of Social Policy that focuses on improving outcomes for young fathers and their children and families as well as a report from The Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative that discusses how child welfare systems have a significant opportunity to improve outcomes for young people by letting adolescent brain research inform their work with youth.

• Changing Child Welfare Practice to Improve Outcomes for Young Fathers and Children

• Using Adolescent Brain Research to Inform Child Welfare Practice, Improve Youth Outcomes

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.

• Law Enforcement, Mental Health Professionals Partner to Help Troubled Youth Get Treatment
• Positive Youth Development Toolkit

Resources

This section of CBX 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 Primary Caregivers of Youth Manage Serious Behaviors, Avoid State Custody
• New Guidance on Helping Public Housing Residents With Employment, Economic Security

Training and Conferences

• Implementation of California’s Continuum of Care Reform

• Conferences