What strategies facilitate safe family reunification?
Explore strategies that promote timely permanency for children in foster care, with a focus on family reunification.
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Why is it imperative to minimize children’s time away from family?
Learn why minimizing time children spend away from family and implementing timely permanency strategies are critical to child well-being.
How can pre-petition legal representation help strengthen families and keep them together?
Preventive legal representation is an effective upstream intervention that can help families keep children safely at home.
What are some examples of effective family search and engagement?
Learn about effective family search and engagement strategies for locating relatives and fictive kin for children in out-of-home care.
Is there an association between home evictions and child welfare engagement?
Learn from a study that examines the relationship between home evictions, child maltreatment reports, and foster care entries.
How can child protection agencies use telehealth to increase service access for children and families?
Explore how telehealth can give children and families involved in child welfare access to essential physical and behavioral health services.
What strategies support pregnant and parenting teens in foster care?
Learn about effective strategies and programs that meet the unique needs of pregnant and parenting teens in foster care.
How can families affected by substance use disorder safely stay together?
Investing in healing interventions for families affected by substance use disorder can promote recovery and mitigate family separation.
How can the child welfare system help youth and families access needed technology?
Learn about resources to help connect youth in foster care and their families with needed technology.
What are some strategies that prioritize first placement of children with a family?
Explore strategies for prioritizing placement of children with kin or in family settings, when out-of-home care is necessary.