Strategies and Tools for Practice

• Notifications Field Guide
  A new field guide from the State of Alaska Health and Social Services, Office of Children's Services (OCS), outlines the processes and activities required for notifications of an intent to change...
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• New Issue of Judges' Page
  The most recent statistics indicate that approximately half of the children entering foster care are younger than age 5. As a result, State court judges increasingly are called upon to make...
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• Talking With Caring Adults
  The California Department of Social Services has created two conversation guides to accompany a series of four videos about aging out of the foster care system: Talking With Caring Adults: A...
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• Well-Being Evaluation Tool
  The New Mexico Court Improvement Project website provides a Well-Being Checklist as a part of its Child Protection Best Practices Bulletin series. The goal of the checklist is to stimulate...
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