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Focusing on Child Welfare Systems: Collaborating With State Legislators on Reform
May 31, 2005This report offers State child welfare agency administrators information on effective strategies for using the child and family services reviews to work more closely with legislators to improve child welfare systems. It covers the importance of legislative engagement in child welfare and strategies for building partnerships with State legislators and engaging them in the reviews.
Legislative Brief: Child Welfare Caseworker Visits with Children and Parents
September 30, 2006This report presents background information about caseworker visits, including the elements that comprise quality visits. It also offers questions that legislators and their staff can use to facilitate a dialogue about caseworker visits with their child welfare agency administrators.
Focusing on Child Welfare Systems: The Role of State Legislators
May 31, 2005This report offers legislators information on using the CFSRs to enhance their role in supporting State child welfare agency administrators in creating effective child welfare policies and practices. It discusses the CFSRs as a resource for legislators, and offers strategies that legislators can use to become involved in the reviews.
Changing the Culture of the Workplace
January 29, 2003This document provides the comments given by Jerry Milner about changing the culture of the workplace at the closing plenary session of the 2003 Annual Meeting of States and Tribes.
Assessing Promising Approaches in Child Welfare: Strategies for State Legislators
July 3, 2012This report provides information about how state legislators and legislative staff can effectively consider the appropriateness of promising child welfare approaches in relation to the program improvements being made through the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs).
Funding of Child and Family Services Reviews Program Improvement Plans
July 3, 2012This report describes how some states are using new resources or are reallocating existing resources for the implementation of their Program Improvement Plans (PIPs).
Leadership and Child Welfare Systems: The Role of State Legislators
July 3, 2012This report discusses the costs that states incur when children are not well served, the importance of the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) as a tool for legislators in assessing child welfare system performance, and the role of legislator-agency collaboration in bringing about system improvement through the CFSR process.
Moving Children Out of Foster Care: The Legislative Role in Finding Permanent Homes for Children
July 3, 2012This document focuses on the outcomes of round 2 of the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) regarding state performance in moving children in child welfare systems toward permanency.
Partners in Progress: Improving Outcomes through Systemic Change
January 28, 2003This document presents the comments of Joan Ohl about improving outcomes through systemic change at the 2003 Annual Meeting of States and Tribes.
State Child Welfare Legislation: 2007–2008
December 31, 2008This document describes some of the state legislation related to child welfare issues that was enacted in 2007 and 2008.
