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Child Welfare Information Gateway connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. We feature the latest on topics from prevention to permanency, including child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption.
Family-Centered Practice
Provides resources to support and preserve families through a respectful, strengths-based approach that views the family as central to the child's well-being.
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Child Abuse & Neglect
Presents definitions, signs and symptoms, and issues related to child abuse and neglect.
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Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect
Provides resources that help agencies and communities strengthen families, raise awareness, and implement prevention programs.
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Responding to Child Abuse & Neglect
Addresses child abuse and neglect reporting and potential responses from the child welfare system.
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Supporting & Preserving Families
Includes resources on family support and family preservation services.
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Out-of-Home Care
Provides resources and information about foster care, kinship care, residential group care, and transition to adulthood and independent living.
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Achieving & Maintaining Permanency
Includes information on the full range of permanency options for children and youth, postpermanency services, and special issues in achieving permanency for older youth, children from minority groups, and children with disabilities.
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Adoption
Presents information for professionals and members of the adoption triad (birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted people) on domestic and intercountry adoption.
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Management & Supervision
Includes building, managing, and supervising child welfare services and ensuring an effective workforce.
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Systemwide
Includes topics and resources that are relevant across the child welfare continuum.
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Search A to Z
Searches Information Gateway's website by keyword to find related webpages, publications, and Children's Bureau Express articles.
State-Specific Resources
Offers access to child welfare-related information by State.
- State Statutes Search
Provides an easy way to find State legislation on specific child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption topics. - National Foster Care & Adoption Directory
Includes State-by-State listings of adoption agencies, support groups, and State officials and services. Also available in Spanish. - State Guides & Manuals Search
Links to State publications that describe child welfare services and provide guidance to professionals and families. - State Related Organizations Lists
Presents contact information and websites for State child welfare and related organizations. - Adoption Assistance by State
Provides answers to 13 questions on State adoption assistance policy, medical assistance, and postadoption services. - Child Welfare Workload Compendium
Offers information and tools from State and local child welfare initiatives to improve workload management.
Publications
Offers free, reliable materials on all aspects of child welfare and adoption for professionals and the families they serve.
- Publications Catalog
Includes hundreds of free factsheets, issue briefs, and other resources to download or order. - Resources in Spanish
Supports professionals in their work with Spanish-speaking families and community members. - User Manual Series
Provides guidance on preventing, identifying, and responding effectively to child maltreatment.
Learning Center
Builds child welfare knowledge with concise and easy-to-use educational resources and training tools for professionals, faculty, and students.
- State Managers Series
Summarizes research and provides State and local examples of specific strategies to support managers responsible for State child welfare programs. - Educators' Toolkit
Offers information and resources across a broad range of child welfare topics to enhance university curricula. - Introduction to Parent-Child Visits
Provides self-guided online training for child welfare workers and supervisors as well as related professionals to improve outcomes through parent-child visits. - How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery
Presents an overview of how Federal legislation and policy impact State and Tribal child welfare systems and service delivery. - Video Series
Offers videos on family engagement and realistic job previews to support the child welfare workforce and improve outcomes for children and families.
Library
Presents reliable print and electronic publications and online information.
- Library search
Offers texts and abstracts of thousands of publications related to all aspects of child welfare.
Logic Model Builders
Provides guidance in developing a logic model to help programs define their service goals and outcomes, identify indicators of success, and select evaluation instruments that may be appropriate to measure success. Information Gateway offers two Logic Model Builders:
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention/Family Support Programs- Postadoption Services Programs
Event Calendar
Presents conferences, Information Gateway materials distributed at conferences, and calls for papers related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption by month and State.
- Conference Calendar
Lists conferences where child welfare and related professionals network and create partnerships, learn new practices and strategies, and present papers and programs. - Conference Exhibits
Provides free materials previously distributed through Child Welfare Information Gateway exhibits at conferences throughout the country.
Related Organizations
Includes national, State, and Tribal organizations and university programs related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
- Related Organizations Lists
Provides contact information for organizations, grouped by topical focus. - Related Organizations Search
Presents a search for national organizations by name or topical focus.
- Child Welfare
Outcomes 2007-2010:
Report to Congress
Analyzes State child welfare agency performance. - State Realistic Job Previews (RJPs)
Visit the Learning Center for links to videos and related materials - CBX Spotlights
Special-Issue Journal
The Impact of
Parental Incarceration - Use of Psychotropic Medications
Information and Policies - Kinship
Features resources for managers, caseworkers
and kinship caregivers - Youth
Resources to promote
positive outcomes for youth 
- The Children's Bureau,
1912-2012
A Passionate Commitment.
A Legacy of Leadership. - New for 2012
The Children's Bureau T&TA Network Directory and Updated Webpages - Treatment & Trauma-Informed Care
Features resources on assessment, treatment, and system change - CB's Centennial
Website
100 years of serving our nation's children and families - Visit the New
Children's Bureau Website
Explore new features and the latest in news and program highlights.
CB Brochure | CB Video
Training & Technical Assistance (T/TA) Network Directory
T/TA Network Highlights:
- The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center (AIA) posted materials from its webinar "Creating an Effective Peer Model".
- The National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues (NRCLJI) posted its presentation from the 2012 Court Improvement Program (CIP) meeting, held June 27-29.
- The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NCROI) launched a new website for their Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Research Project, which contains information on the CQI systems of 33 States, among other resources.
- The National Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response (QIC-DR) included a new publication in its website's "Resources" section, Differential Response in Child Protective Services: Research and Practice Advancements.
- The National Resource Center for Adoption (NRCA) added a resource on Strategies For Recruiting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families to their website's Adoption Information and Stats sect.
- The National Resource Center for Child Protective Services (NRCCPS) posted a recording and PowerPoint presentation for its July 17 webinar, "Using the CEBC to Identify 'The Best' Programs for Children and Families in the Child Welfare System".
- The National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data & Technology (NRC-CWDT) posted a recording and materials from their June 9 webinar, cohosted by AdoptUSKids, "Social Media and Social Networking in Child Welfare".
- The National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (FRIENDS) posted recordings of and materials from recent webinars.
- The National Resource Center for In-Home Services (NRC In-Home) posted materials and a webcast presentation from its "PSSF Peer Web Teleconference on Post Adoption Services as Family Preservation," which was held on June 20, 2012.
- The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health (TA Center) posted the complete agenda book, resources, and PowerPoint presentations from its July 25—29 Training Institutes on children's mental health. See the TA Center's website for all the information.
- The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership) posted a recording and materials from their July webinar, "Indicators of Family Involvement".
- More updates from the T&TA Network
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- Toll-Free Crisis Hotline Numbers
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