Reports and Resources

• July 2010 Resource Digest II
  Call for Presentations for the 2011 Child Welfare League of America national conference; University's First Chance Scholarship Program; Initiative to Reduce Long-Term Foster Care Funding Opportunity; Family Assessment in Child Welfare: The Illinois DCFS Integrated Assessment Program in Policy and Practice; Some Medicaid Doctors Rely Heavily on Potent Drugs
  
  
• July 2010 Resource Digest
  Trial Skills for Child Welfare Attorneys Training; A Symposium on Family Strengths and Diversity: Power, Promise, Practice; Child Indicator Summarizes New Evidence-Based Federal Efforts; Children of Immigrants in the Child Welfare System; Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Administration on Children and Families (ACF) Announce Funding Opportunity for States; The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Child Welfare; Kinship Adoption: Meeting the Unique Needs of a Growing Population; PolicyforResults.org; Ten Things Every Juvenile Court Judge Should Know About Trauma and Delinquency; What Works for Older Youth During Their Transition to Adulthood: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions; Winning Campaign: California's Concerted Effort to Reduce Its Teen Pregnancy Rate
  
  
• May 2010 Resource Digest II
  Adoption Review Committee Hearing, Department of Family and Protective Services Stakeholder Forum, Council on Children and Families Holds Public Meeting, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Accepts Nominations for 2010 Adoption Excellence Awards, Blog by CourTex provides information about the state courts in Texas from the perspective of the state court administrator Carl Reynolds, Children's Bureau Express: Finding the Youth Voice in the Permanency Process, Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions: State Implementation of the Health Oversight and Coordination Plan, Paper Addresses Educational Challenges Facing System-Involved Youth, Securing Child Safety, Well-Being, and Permanency Through Placement Stability in Foster Care, Vera Institute of Justice Issues Implementation of Study of Program for Older Youth Leaving Foster Care
  
  
• May 2010 Resource Digest
  Senate Criminal Justice Committee Hearing, House Human Services Committee Hearing, Improving Child/Youth Placement Outcomes: A System Redesign Survey, Challenges of Dual Involvement in CPS and Juvenile Justice Event, Disproportionality in Child Protective Services: The Preliminary Results of Statewide Reform Efforts in Texas, State Child Care Efforts with ARRA Funds Report, Texas Tribune article, Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment of Brain Development
  

• April 2010 Resource Digest
  10th Annual Partners in Prevention Training Conference, Department of Family and Protective Services Stakeholder Forum, Caught Between Systems: The Intersection of Immigration and Child and Welfare Policies, Child Welfare Outcomes 2003-2006: Report to Congress, Connected by 25: Effective Policy Solutions for Vulnerable Youth, Florida Appeal Court Rules Foster Youth Cannot Be Jailed For Their Own Best Interest, Health Care Reform Includes Historic Investment in Prevention Services, Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth, Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Grantees
  

• March 2010 Resource Digest
  Fostering Connections Resource Center, Travis County Model Court for Children and Families Training Session, 2009 DFPS Annual Report and Data Book, Adapting a Systems Approach to Child Protection: Key Concepts and Considerations, Child Abuse and Neglect in Texas, Illinois Families and Their Multiple Service Systems, Promoting Permanency: Successful Exits from Therapeutic Group Care Through Family and Community Reintegration, Promising Practices for Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect, State Child Welfare Policy Database

• February 2010 Resource Digest
       Abuse Detection Training for Child Care Workers, 24th Annual Conference on Child Abuse
      Prevention, Parent Representation Pilot Project and Other Models, Mental Health Practices  
      in Child Welfare Toolkit,  Child Welfare and Migration, QIC-DR, Reintegration Pilot Project,
     Reducing Racial Disproportionality, Employment Needs of Foster Youth, Examining Kinship
     Care, CPS Review, and More
  
  
• December 2009 / January 2010 Resource Digest
       Task Force for Children with Special Needs, Substance-Exposed Infants: State Responses
      to the Problem, Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in Texas
  
  
• October / November 2009 Resource Digest
      Home Visitiation, Preventing Child Mistreatment, Sharing Program Evaluation Results,
      Extending Foster Care to Age 21, Male Involvement Among Families in the Child Welfare
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• September 2009 Resource Digest
     Municipal Action Guide to Help Cities Support Foster Youth Transitions, Examining Judges' 
    Perspectives on Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption of Foster Children,
    Strengthening Systems Protecting Foster Youth - Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice,
    Embedding Home Visitation Services within a System of Early Childhood Services,  
    Children’s Bureau Promising Approaches , Progress Reports on SB 758 and Texas
    Department of Family and Protective Services Reform   

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