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Child Welfare Content Topic Results

The results displayed below have been grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections - containing our most highly valued resources - then by individual related materials. Refine your search by category, types, author and/or publisher using the options provided. Sort by date published, date added, or alphabetically. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
total results: 203  | date published date added a-z

Special Collection

Special Collection
July 2016

Fostering Resilience, Respect & Healthy Growth in Childhood and Beyond

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This Special Collection offers resources that promote strategies for creating environments where children can thrive with a particular focus on enhancing capacity for resilience across the lifespan.
Special Collection
May 2012

Enhanced Services to Children and Youth Exposed to Domestic Violence: Promising Practices & Lessons Learned

This Special Collection provides lessons learned and related resources from nine HHS-funded 3-year demonstration projects to enhance services to children and youth who have been exposed to domestic violence.

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  • General Material
August 2024

Community Violence Prevention Resource for Action: A Compilation of the Best Available Evidence for Youth and Young Adults

Author(s): Publisher(s):
This prevention resource brings together examples based on the best available evidence. It outlines seven strategies to prevent community violence to ensure everyone can live in safe, healthy, and thriving communities.  
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  • General Material
November 2023

How are child protection agencies implementing trauma-informed, healing-centered policies and practices?

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This resource explores how child protection agencies are implementing trauma-informed and healing-centered policies into their work and the impacts it has had on their agency. 
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  • General Material
October 2023

Adoption Tax Credit FAQs

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This webpage provides basic information about adoption tax benefits.
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  • General Material
February 2022

Seeking Safety, Equity and Justice: 2021 Ohio Statewide Survey Results: Domestic Violence Survivors’ Experience with Law Enforcement, Courts, Child Welfare, and Social Service Systems

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The seeds for this survey were planted in the months following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Like the advocates at our member programs, ODVN wanted to better understand how survivors—women of color, specifically, along with other marginalized groups—experience law enforcement and other parts of the response system. We surveyed 505 survivors across the state to get some answers.
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  • General Material
January 2022

Integrating Positive Youth Development and Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Approaches Across the Child Welfare and Justice Systems

Author(s): Publisher(s):
In this paper, the authors explore why child welfare and justice systems need a new emphasis on positive youth development (PYD) approaches that incorporate racial equity and inclusion, why it is important to focus on young adults specifically, and why the child welfare and justice systems are particularly important sectors in which to provide positive, developmentally appropriate supports. 
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  • General Material
September 2021

Minnesota’s Best Practice Guide for the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence

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Families are the primary providers to meet children’s needs; the safety and well-being of children depends on the safety and well-being of all family members. As both researchers and child protection caseworkers know well, there is a high rate of co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic violence. This best practice guide was developed to support local child welfare agency staff as they engage with families experiencing co-occurring domestic violence and child maltreatment.
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  • General Material
  • NRCDV Publications
  • Training Tools
February 2021

WEBINAR: Not Neutral: The Impact of Mandatory Reporting on Domestic Violence Survivors

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As increasing light is shed on the limitations of criminal legal responses to domestic violence, calls for community-based solutions that do not involve the criminal legal system are growing louder. This Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month (TDVAM) webinar explores the impact of mandatory reporting on domestic violence survivors, highlighting unique impacts for LGBTQ young people.
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  • General Material
December 2020

What Is Child Welfare? A Guide for Domestic Violence Services Advocates

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Child welfare workers and domestic violence services (DVS) advocates recognize that domestic violence adversely impacts family safety and well-being and puts children at increased risk for maltreatment. This guide provides an overview of basic child welfare services, describes how DVS advocates and child welfare professionals can support one another's efforts in working with families, and presents resources for more information.
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  • General Material
December 2020

Domestic Violence: A Primer for Child Welfare Professionals

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Child welfare professionals, domestic violence services advocates, and other community stakeholders are increasingly working together to address the impact of domestic violence on children. This primer provides practitioners with a high-level overview of the complex intersections between domestic violence and child welfare and points to promising practices for casework. 
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  • General Material
  • Training Tools
May 2019

Mentoring Youth in the Foster Care System Toolkit

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By focusing on staff and mentor training, skill-building, and expanding social networks, mentoring programs can have a profound impact on the lives of youth who have experienced the foster care system. This toolkit is designed to help staff from mentoring programs that serve youth in foster care mitigate some of the challenges they face.