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Assistant Secretary Nazario Debuts on YouTube

Carmen Nazario, the new Assistant Secretary for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, took her message to the public recently with a short video on YouTube that describes the mission of ACF and the goals of her administration. She stresses three obje...

CB Announces Discretionary Grant Awards

The Children's Bureau has announced the recipients of its 2009 Discretionary Grants, including the awards for its National Resource Centers (NRCs). As part of the Children's Bureau's Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA) Network, the NRCs provide T&TA, as well as support, research, and...

Site Visit: Leadership Institute Helps in Implementing System of Care

The goal of the National Child Welfare Leadership Institute (NCWLI) is to build leadership skills in midlevel managers in public and Tribal child welfare agencies to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families. In a recent project called Embedding Lessons Learned, NCWLI worked with the ...

Children's Bureau Conference Presentations Available

Resources from two Children's Bureau conferences are now available online. The Children's Bureau Agencies and Courts Meeting, held in August in Arlington, VA, carried the theme "New Strategies for the Changing Times" and included workshops under the categories o...

Updates From the T&TA Network

The Children's Bureau's Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA) Network continues to produce resources that can help States and Tribes in their work with children and families. Some recent resources are listed below: * Child Welfare Information Gateway recen...

New! On the Children's Bureau Site

The Children's Bureau website carries information on child welfare programs, funding, monitoring, training and technical assistance, laws, statistics, research, Federal reporting, and much more. The "New on Site" section includes grant announcements, policy announcements, agency informa...

Addressing Racial Disproportionality in the Courts

Reducing racial disproportionality and disparate treatment of minority children is the focus of a new initiative from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ). The Courts Catalyzing Change: Achieving Equity and Fairness in Foster Care Initiative brings together judic...

New Book on Supervision

Child Welfare Supervision, edited by Cathryn C. Potter and Charmaine R. Brittain, provides a practical guide to the topic for supervisors and managers, applying principles of supervision, management, and organizational theory to the child welfare practice environment. Chapters focus on c...

A Child's Book About Recovering After Sexual Abuse

Sarah's Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse is a new tool for helping girls, ages 7 to 12, heal after the trauma of sexual abuse. A series of journal entries trace a young girl's participation in a survivors' group led by a school psychologist. Readers follow the heroine's jour...

Improving the Legal System's Approach to LGBTQ Youth In Foster Care

Addressing the barriers to safety, permanency, and well-being for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth is the focus of the Opening Doors Project: Improving the Legal System's Approach to LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care. During this 3-year project, staff of the American Ba...

Grants for Grandparents Raising Children

Once again, the Brookdale Foundation's Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) is offering its Local, Regional, and State Seed Grant Initiatives. Grants will be made to promote the development and expansion of programs that help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. The deadline for the l...

Domestic Violence Training for Resource Families

The Family Violence Prevention Fund offers a 3-hour training curriculum for resource families titled "Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence." The training is designed to be used in child welfare settings with foster parents, kin caregivers, and adoptive parents. The ...

Conferences

Upcoming national conferences on adoption and child welfare through January 2010 include: "November 2009" * 55th Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education "Bridging Rights, Culture, and Justice: Social Work as a Change Agen...