Child Welfare Research

• FAMILIES COUNT Honorees Named by Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Surveys Give Snapshot of How Child Welfare Services Are Organized, Delivered
• Report Offers First Insights into “Fragile Families”

• Overlaying with Bruises/Abrasions Indicates Possible Abuse

Strategies and Tools for Practice

• Kit for New Parents Available to All Parents of California Newborns
• Independent Living Programs in Oregon and California Give Aging-Out Foster Youth Support

Resources

• Does it Take a Village: Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families
• Parenting and the Child's World: Influences on Academic, Intellectual, and Social-Emotional Development
• Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

• The Winners: 100 Prize Winning Essays by Teens in Foster Care
• Psychological Assessment of Sexually Abused Children and Their Families. Interpersonal Violence: The Practice Series.
• Toward a Child-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Child Protection System: A Report of the Consortium on Children, Families, and the Law

• Online Database Contains Domestic Violence Statutes
• First Annual Citizen Review Panel Conference
• Speaking for America's Children

• National Indian Child Welfare Association to Publish New Journal

Training and Conferences

• Series Teaches About Fetal Alcohol Syndrome