In December 2015, a federal judge issued a scathing ruling against Texas’s child welfare system, saying “foster children often age out of care more damaged than when they entered” and ordered a laundry list of […]
Social workers, educators, judges and prosecutors, nonprofit leaders, state legislators, and many other advocates for Kentucky kids and families traveled near and far during the summer to learn more about what implementation of the federal Family […]
The child welfare research community has been waiting for an answer on whether federal dollars will flow for some of the work needed to build up the nation’s array of evidence-based programs for keeping families […]
If you have a favorite evidence-based program in the areas of mental health, substance abuse or parenting, now is the time to nominate it for more federal funding. The clearinghouse that determines which programs and service […]
In just a few weeks, the two major provisions of the Family First Prevention Services Act will take effect. The law, passed in February 2018, dramatically changes the rules of Title IV-E, the entitlement through […]
It wasn’t until Akilah Shands arrived at the Central California Women’s Facility that she realized she was going to be a mom. In 1999, Shands had been arrested for violating her parole and was sentenced […]
The federal Administration for Children and Families (ACF) just made a decision that on its face appears like the minutiae of protocol and procedure, but is likely to make implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act […]
The federal clearinghouse established to determine which services can be funded to help prevent the use of foster care in some child welfare cases has added 16 new programs for review in the coming months, […]
In the 1980s, the Children’s Home Society of Washington (CHSW) brought Sharon Osborne in as a consultant to help them find some new executive management. She was a young social worker, who had helped set […]
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has laid out a parallel track for states to clear services for the Family First Prevention Services Act, a new law that opens up uncapped federal dollars to […]
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