Children's Bureau Grantee Updates

The Children's Bureau released a discretionary grants toolkit to assist grantees with project implementation. We also highlight a synthesis on the Bureau's recent work related to comprehensive family assessments (CFAs) in child welfare.

• Children's Bureau Discretionary Grant Toolkit
• Comprehensive Family Assessments Grants Synthesis

• Site Visit: Family Group Decision-Making for In-Home Services
• Site Visit: Fostering Youth Educational Success in North Carolina
• Site Visit: Technology Promotes Project Knowledge, Implementation

Child Welfare Research

CBX explores the demographics of children in foster care in Alaska and a research study comparing educational outcomes of youth involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) to youth with no CPS involvement.

• Demographic Trends Among Children in Foster Care in Alaska
• Services for Families Affected by Parental Methamphetamine Use
• Massachusetts' Efforts to Address Children's Complex Trauma

• Educational Outcomes of Youth Involved With CPS

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.

• Improving Services for LGBT Youth
• Engaging Families Through Family Team Meetings

• Providing Quality Residential Interventions for LGBTQI2-S Youth

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.

• Guide for Implementing the Parents' Assessment of Protective Factors
• Web-Based Tool on Trauma-Informed Care

• Understanding and Responding to Problematic Sexual Behaviors in Youth

Training and Conferences

• Representing Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
• Improving Tribal and Cultural Child Welfare Practice

• Conferences