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This report presents results from a national research study, which was conducted by Child Welfare Information Gateway with funding from the Children’s Bureau, to better understand how child welfare professionals who work in state and local child welfare agencies, with tribes, and in courts access information and use technology to inform their practice.
California Partners for Permanency (CAPP) is establishing new norms in partnering with the community to lift up and address institutional racism and trauma in public child welfare.
This brief provides an overview of biased language in child welfare case practice and strategies to identify and study it. Key themes explored in the brief include the implicit biases of child welfare professionals that are manifested in spoken and written language, methods to study biased language, and how an improved understanding of biased language promotes more effective and equitable child welfare practice.
This publication highlights the efforts of current and former child welfare discretionary grant recipients to develop and implement effective family engagement strategies. Family engagement initiatives described in the document include family navigators, parent cafés, parent and youth advisory councils, and reforms to permanency planning, case management, and agency communication processes.
This Report to Congress provides information on the performance of states on seven national outcome categories and also includes data on contextual factors and findings of analyses conducted across states.
This document provides details on how states and the Children's Bureau will work to verify each state's ability to meet the case review criteria to conduct a State-Led Review for CFSR Round 4.