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Addressing Bias in Delinquency and Child Welfare Systems

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Advocacy Tools
In partnership with the National Juvenile Defender Center, the NCJFCJ has created Addressing Bias in Delinquency and Child Welfare Systems, a bench card emphasizing that “eliminating racial and ethnic disparities... (Read more)

Strategic Planning in Child Welfare: Strategies for Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement

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Engaging stakeholders in ongoing strategic planning, monitoring, and reporting efforts is crucial to child welfare agencies’ success in achieving their goals and improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The... (Read more)

Spotlight on Creating a More Equitable Child Welfare System

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Constituent Engagement
Implementation Strategies
This issue of CBX highlights the importance of prioritizing and advancing racial equity in child welfare. Read a message from Associate Commissioner Aysha E. Schomburg about the dream of creating... (Read more)
Overview / General

Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities

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Data / Research
Every day, four to eight children in the United States die from abuse or neglect at the hands of their parents or caretakers. No one knows the exact number, and... (Read more)
Prevention
Child Fatalities

Transition to Adulthood & Independent Living Outreach Toolkit

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Constituent Engagement
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Youth in foster care face several challenges as they approach adulthood and prepare for self-sufficiency and independent living, and many struggle to achieve self-reliance. Youth in out-of-home care may face... (Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee

Promoting Permanency for Teens: A 50 State Review of Law and Policy

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Over the last 20 years the number of children in foster care has decreased significantly. Yet during this same period, the number of teenagers aging out of foster care without... (Read more)
Older Youth / Chafee

Guide to Full Disclosure of Permanency Options

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There are many reasons why children can no longer be cared for by their parents. Parents may have a substance use disorder, mental illness, incarceration, or perhaps have even died... (Read more)
Courts
Kinship
Adoption Assistance

Spotlight on Reunification

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News
This issue of CBX (June 2023) highlights reunification and the importance of supporting families as they work toward their reunification goals. Read a message from Associate Commissioner Aysha E. Schomburg... (Read more)
Overview / General
Evidence-Based Practice
Kinship

2022 Tool Kit for Attorneys Representing Parents and Children in Child Welfare Cases

Advocacy Tools
As part of the ongoing commitment to elevate the practice of law in child welfare cases, the Children’s Commission is pleased to share this Tool Kit for Attorneys Representing Parents... (Read more)
Courts

Tip Sheet- American Indian & Alaska Native Grandfamilies: Helping Children Thrive Through Connection to Family and Cultural Identity

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This resource is designed as a quick reference tool for practitioners and advocates working with grandfamilies and kinship families who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native. It is meant... (Read more)
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American Academy of Pediatrics American Bar Association American Public Human Services Association Annie E. Casey Foundation Birth Parent National Network Casey Family Programs Chapin Hall Child Focus Children's Defense Fund Children's Trust Fund Alliance Child Trends Family Centered Treatment Foundation Family Focused Treatment Association Federal HHS/ACYF/CB Foster Care Alumni of America FosterClub Generations United Juvenile Law Center Mathematica National Association of Counsel for Children National Conference of State Legislatures National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges National Council on Crime & Deliquency National Governors Association National Indian Child Welfare Association Other Public Consulting Group Senate / Congress Within Our Reach Youth Villages

Topics

Adoption Assistance Child Fatalities Courts COVID-19 Evidence-Based Practice Interstate Placement / NEICE Juvenile Justice Kinship Older Youth / Chafee Overview / General Pregnant & Parenting Prevention QRTP / Congregate Care

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American Academy of Pediatrics
American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
American Public Human Services Association
Annie E. Casey Foundation
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Child Trends
Child Focus
Children's Defense Fund
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Evident Change
Family Centered Treatment Foundation
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Foster Care Alumni of America

FosterClub
Generations United
Juvenile Law Center
Mathematica
National Association of Counsel for Children
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
National Indian Child Welfare Association
National Governors Association
Public Consulting Group
Within Our Reach 
Youth Villages

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