Child Welfare Content Topic Results

This article explains collaboration efforts between domestic violence agencies and CPS in Oregon. Additionally, it gives detailed observations from a first-person perspective and includes resources (including a report by Ellen Pence and Terri Taylor of Praxis International).

This study uses statistics to analyze the position of poor children in both urban and rural environments. The report takes into consideration type of job and ethnicity, as well as, location.

This report describes the impact of the Safe and Together model, developed specifically for domestic violence cases involving children to improve practice and decision making with the goal of safety, permanency and well-being of children at its center.

This resource kit captures over 10 years of work by IPEC and its partners and makes the Programme's experiences and knowledge available to those who design, implement and improve policy and programming to fight child trafficking.

This guidebook contains information on how adults can step forward and help protect children. It describes what to look for and how to talk with other adults and with children about preventing sexual abuse.

The packet contains resources to promote community awareness of five important protective factors that can help families protect children from the risk of child abuse and neglect.

This tool is designed for judges to promote consideration of ways to maximize a child’s safety as they determine issues of custody and visitation.

This document discusses the challenges faced by both domestic violence service providers in serving youth and challenges faced by teens seeking help. The document suggests re-evaluating program policies and structures to enhance services to youth.

Describes major legal and social trends surrounding custody and visitation decisions and the social science evidence supporting the need to consider domestic violence. Recommendations for custody and visitation decisions are explored.

This paper builds on a process of systematic analysis that began with the publication in 2000 of a landmark report by the National Academy of Sciencesentitled From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development, followed bythe ongoing work of the National Scientific Councilon the Developing Child and the National Forumon Early Childhood Program Evaluation, both of which are based at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

This guide identifies six key components of child sexual abuse prevention for organizations. It includes prevention goals and critical strategies for each component. Suggestions for addressing challenges and tools to help organizations get started are also provided.

This resource provides a brief summary of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, P.L. 109-248 (H.R. 4472) which reformulates the federal standards for sex offender registration in state, territorial and tribal sexual offender registries. "It does so in a manner designed to make the system more uniform, more inclusive, more informative and more readily available to the public online."