Child Welfare Research

• CAPTA Update
• Congress Works on Appropriations for Child and Family Programs

• Unlevel Playing Field: Service Barriers for Faith-Based and Community-Based Organizations
• Federal Court Rules that Children May Sue Under ASFA
• Study Considers Role of Birth Culture in Adjustment of Transracial Adoptees

• New Study Looks at Success Rates of Adoptions of Children from Foster Care
• Global Observance for Prevention of Child Abuse Marked on November 19

Strategies and Tools for Practice

• Programs for Parents and Teachers Aim at Better Outcomes for Children

• Former Foster Youth in Arizona and New Jersey Get Extended Medicaid Coverage

Resources

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Approaches to Treatment and Case Management
• Trauma and Cognitive Science: A Meeting of Minds, Science, and Human Experience

• Treating Youth Who Sexually Abuse: An Integrated Multi-Component Approach
• Abuse and Neglect: The Educator's Guide to the Identification and Prevention of Child Maltreatment
• The Cost of Child Maltreatment: Who Pays? We All Do

• Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know
• Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families and Its Effects on Children
• New Brochure Solicits Community Support in Court Improvement

• Journal Devotes Issue to Marriage as a Child-Centered Institution
• CWLA Addresses Intersection Between Substance Abuse and Child Abuse
• Online Support for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

• Resource Book Educates Teens about Animal Cruelty, Connection to Child Abuse
• New Report Examines the Link Between Childhood Maltreatment and Juvenile Delinquency

Training and Conferences

• Minnesota Program Offers Certificate in Child Abuse Prevention Studies