Resource Library

This webinar was primarily for those states that have incorporated Strengthening Families as part of their child abuse and neglect prevention efforts.

This resource provides an overview of the Evaluation Team for the federal Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII).

The video The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW): Implications for Child Welfare Evaluations illustrates ways that the NSCAW can provide a meaningful comparison group for those interested in assessing child and adolescent well-being outcomes in their jurisdictions.

This technical bulletin, re-issued on November 9, 2022, provides title IV-E agencies that choose to develop a Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) with guidance on identifying and collaborating with child welfare contributing agencies (CWCAs), options for data sharing, and related cost allocation requirements.

This is a list of the Out-of-Home Care and Adoption and Guardianship Assistance data elements with their definitions as published in the AFCARS final rule issued on December 14, 2016 (81 FR 90524)

This technical assistance document provides guidance to title IV-E agencies about engaging and involving youth in foster care and young adults formerly in foster care (youth and young adults) in the design and development of child welfare information systems, websites, or applications. In addition, the document discusses overcoming barriers with identifying and engaging youth and young adults in the software development process.

This technical bulletin provides information for title IV-E agencies on the title IV-E prevention program data collection timelines the Children’s Bureau (CB) will use to manage data submission.

This state panel discussion, featuring Alabama, District of Columbia, and Wisconsin, discussed sharing child welfare and education data to improve practice and outcomes. Panelists shared the history of their exchanges along with future visions for their exchanges. In addition, panelists discussed the lessons learned from building relationships between child welfare agencies and education agencies and developing data exchanges between them. The panel included several question and answer sessions throughout the presentation.

In order for a child welfare case management system to be called a SACWIS/TACWIS, it must comply with Federal requirements. This PowerPoint describes these Federal requirements.

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).