Children's Bureau Grantee Updates
We highlight four grantee site visits this month whose activities focus on using family group decision-making with target populations, improving early education services for children in foster care, and using family group conferencing to improve child welfare outcomes.
Child Welfare Research
CBX points to an article on a study examining the proportion of Latino children with noncitizen parents who are involved with child welfare, a study on the link between childhood adversity and food insecurity, and more.
- Linking Childhood Adversity and Food Insecurity
- Citizenship Status of Child Welfare-Involved Latino Families
- Federal Funding of Child Welfare Programs
Strategies and Tools for Practice
This section of CBX offers publications, articles, reports, toolkits, and other instruments that provide either evidence-based strategies or other concrete help to child welfare and related professionals.
- Trauma and Well-Being Assessment Tool
- Factsheet on Children With Incarcerated Parents
- Exemplary Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Programs
Resources
This CBX section provides a quick list of interesting resources, such as websites, videos, journals, funding or scholarship opportunities, or other materials that can be used in the field or with families.
- Using Social Media to Promote Youth Programs
- CPS and the Rights of Domestic Violence Victims
- Website on Preventing Teen Pregnancy