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This state panel discussion, featuring Florida and New Mexico, discussed alternatives for sharing child welfare and law enforcement data to improve practice. Florida staff described law enforcement involvement in the investigation process as well as automation to support criminal history checks. New Mexico staff described a law enforcement portal, which supports collaborative work with families. Both states discussed lessons learned and the panel concluded with a question and answer session.
This DSS hosted webinar describes the lessons learned from implementing mobile solutions in Washington and in Minnesota, which is a state managed, county-administered state. The presentation included representatives from Winona County and Carver County Minnesota who spoke about their county-level mobile solutions.
This plenary session focused on leveraging public-private partnerships and interagency collaboration to strengthen and preserve families, reduce placements in out-of-home care, and provide support to children and youth in foster care.
This is a seminar for community treatment service providers in Washoe County, Nevada as part of the Nevada Initiative to Reduce Long-Term Foster Care. The seminar describes the initiative, the intervention, the concept for change, and the worker and treatment provider communications.
This webpage includes the documentation from Ohio's Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) assessment review for fiscal year 2012:
This technical assistance document accompanies the proposed rule on the National Youth In Transition Database (NYTD) that was published in the Federal Register on July 14, 2006 (71 FR 40346).