Training and Technical Assistance Updates

CBX highlights WPIC's redesigned website and framework centered on the five elements required for achieving sustainable systems change, the TA Partnership's decision-making guidebook, and other updates from CB's T&TA Network.

• Achieving Systems Change in Child Welfare
• Differential Response in CPS

• Decision-Making Guidebook
• More Updates From the T&TA Network

Children's Bureau Grantee Updates

A new site visit report highlights child welfare and TANF collaboration in Alaska, and the Children's Bureau forecasts 10 discretionary grant funding opportunities for fiscal year (FY) 2013.

• Site Visit: Alaskan Tribal TANF-Child Welfare Collaboration

• Funding Opportunity Announcements

Child Welfare Research

This month, CBX points to research on the impact of the Internet on adoption, parental exposure to trauma, the increase in cohabiting grandparents and grandchildren, and other articles.

• Tracking Child Maltreatment Data
• Grandparents Living With Children

• Impact of the Internet on Adoption
• Parental Exposure to Trauma
• GAP Funds Promote Permanency

• Putin Bans Intercountry Adoption by U.S. Families

Strategies and Tools for Practice

• Working With Polyvictimized Children
• Permanency Planning Toolkit

• Latino Kids Data Explorer

Resources

• Youth Advice for Foster Parents
• Tips and Tools for Online Safety

• Service Needs Girls Involved With the Justice System
• AAP Intercountry Adoption Brochure
• Scholarship Search Tool

Training and Conferences

• PA Child Welfare Resource Center Training
• Conferences