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.

• Site Visit: Nurturing the Resiliency in Wayne County Families
• Site Visit: North Florida Child Welfare—Early Education Partnership

• Site Visit: New Jersey Kinship Connections Program
• Site Visit: Families United Family Group Conferencing Program

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.

• Child Welfare Workers and Father Engagement

• 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

Training and Conferences

• Creating Safe Environments for Traumatized LGBTQ Youth
• Conferences