Child Welfare Content Topic Results

From a national stakeholders gathering of state and local leaders, federal partners, philanthropy, and others, this guide was developed to address how health, education, child welfare, justice, and child development organizations can further the prevention and healing of childhood trauma at the state level.

This KIDS COUNT policy report explores the intersection of children, opportunity, race and immigration, and examines barriers facing children in immigrant families.

As strengths based work with families becomes more prevalent, the research on protective capacities of domestic violence survivors as parents becomes more important to supporting a shift in policy and practice. This briefing explores some of the research that demonstrates the protective capacities of adult survivors and their implications for policy and practice.

UNICEF's analysis in this study indicates that the number of lives saved per million dollars invested among the poorest children is almost twice as high as the number saved by equivalent investments in less poor groups.

This fact sheet explains child sex trafficking, how children become victims, who the perpetrators are, statistics, indicators for exploitation, suggestions on how to keep your child safer and agencies for assistance and information.

Methamphetamine has been identified as one of the largest threats to public safety in Indian Country. This webinar discusses how methamphetamine use and the complex nature of criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations, along with historically underfunded and understaffed services have resulted in major challenges for tribes to address domestic violence and child abuse.

This resource from the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators is designed to help agencies, organizations, and stakeholders improve services, programs, and outcomes for youth involved in the juvenile justice system.

Police officers are frequently the first responders to situations that pose threats to the safety and well-being of children and families. This toolkit provides practical tools and resources to assist law enforcement agencies in building or enhancing effective operational responses to children exposed to violence (with or without a mental health partner).

This Technical Assistance Guidance, a product of the Adult Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (ACE-DV) Leadership Forum, explores the connection between exposure to domestic violence in childhood and, among other consequences, the risk for suicide in adulthood.

This webpage provides an overview of the Federal Adoption Tax Credit, and provides brief descriptions of qualifying adoption expenses, state adoption tax credits, adoption disruption, dependency tax exemption, and adoption tax credit before finalization.

This toolbox provides resources and information to providers to help children and families cope with illness and injury. It provides the basics of trauma informed care.

This is a web-based toolkit about adolescent development.