Resource Library
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Annual Reports
Child Welfare Guidelines and Training Regulations
Conference Materials
- Humboldt/Del Norte County Practical Program Evaluation and Research Planning for Human Serices Agencies
- Considerations for Rural Research: A Community Based Practice Research Model
Approach
- Evaluation: It’s Not Just “at the End”
- Vision of Elder Care
- Research to Practice 2008
- Drum Circle Research
- Secondary Traumatic Stress and Child Welfare Professionals
- Self-Care Assessment Worksheet
- Weaving Good Relations Conference 2009
CWS/CMS Resources
Evaluation Projects
- Core Program Evaluation Reports
- Enhancing Child Safety and Building Partnerships with Families through Supported Decision Making Casework
- Tools for Supervisory Excellence Program and Evaluation
Literature Reviews
- **How To’s of Lit Reviews
- Aftercare
- Alternatives to Group Home Care
- Exits to Permanency
- Family Engagement
- Fathers
- Independent Living Program
- Kinship Foster Care
- Long-Term Issues in Foster Care
- Mental Health
- Participatory Case Planning Resource Guide
- Participatory Planning
- Placement Stability
- Promoting Positive Placements
- Recruitment and Retention in Rural Communities
- Recurrence of Maltreatment
- Reunification and Re-entry
- Rural and Tribal Issues
- Strength-Based Review
- Timely Adoptions
- Wraparound Process
Peer Quality Case Review (PQCR)
- Webinar Handouts
- Developing a Planning Committee
- Reviewing Data and Choosing Focus Area
- Using Research in Practice
- Preparing the Agency
- Case Selection and Peer Reviewers
- Role of the Peer Reviewer
- Logistics for the Week
- Focus Groups and Case Review
- Developing Tools
- Mock Interviews and Preparing Case Files
- Process Review—American Humane Article 2010
Reaching Out Newsletter
- Fall 2012 (AB12)
- Fall 2011 (Signs of Safety)
- Spring/Summer 2011 (Challenging Times)
- Winter 2010 (Fatherhood)
- Summer 2010 (Methamphetamine Grant Special Issue)
- Spring/Summer 2009 (Concurrent Planning)
- Fall 2008 (Visits)
- Spring 2008 (Children and Their Incarcerated Parents)
- Fall 2007 (Permanency, Part 2 )
- Spring 2007 (Permanency, Part 1)
- Fall 2006 (Alcohol and Drug Abuse)
- Fall 2006 (Alcohol and Drug Abuse—“Drugs 101” Insert)
- Spring 2006 (Native American Communities)
- Spring 2006 (Training Evaluation Update Newsletter)
- Summer 2005 (What is Rural Practice?)
Special Project Materials: Methamphetamine Regional Partnership
- “Getting Clean” after Meth—Tennille’s Story
- Building Bridges between the Courts, Child Welfare and Alcohol and Drug Services: A Case Study in Lakeport, California
- General Information
- Steering Committee Meeting Agendas
- October 6, 2010
- September 1, 2010
- July 20, 2010
- March 2, 2010
- December 10, 2009
- November 17, 2009
- June 8, 2009 Site Visit
- March 20, 2009
- November 14, 2008
- July 24, 2008
- May 1, 2008
- February 1, 2008
- Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
Training Materials: After 18/Extended Foster Care
- General Overview
- PowerPoint: AB12 - California Fostering Connections to Success Act
- AB12 Benefits Essentials: Trainer's Guide
- AB12 Implementation Guide for Supervisors
- AB12 Primer
- ACL NO. 12-44:TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PLACEMENT...
- CWDA AB12 Re-Entry Contact List
- Legal Process
- PowerPoint: Legal Process for Social Workers
- AOC Document: Court Procedures
- Chart 600
- Chart A: Rule 5.707
- Chart B: Rule 5.903
- Chart C: Rule 5.555
- Chart D: Rule 5.906
- Chart E: Rule 5812
- Legal Process for Social Workers: Trainee's Guide
- Extended Foster Care Information Sheet 1
- Extended Foster Care Information Sheet 2
- Policies and Procedures
- Recorded Webinar
- PowerPoint: Putting the Fostering Connections to Success Act into Operation
- Master Checklist
- Post-Secondary Education
Training Materials: Children of Incarcerated Parents
- Caring for Children of Prisoners
- Common Stress Points
- Conversations: Questions Children Ask
- CW360: A Comprehensive Look at a Prevalent Child Welfare Issue
- Different Children/Behaviors
- Impact of Parental Incarceration
- Questions from Caregivers
- Resource Guide for Teens with a Parent in Prison or Jail
- Resources: Intersection of Corrections and Child Welfare
- Risk and Protection
- Tips for Caregivers—from Caregivers
- Visiting Mom or Dad: The Information for Families
- What do Children of Prisoners and Their Caregivers Need?
- Why Maintain Relationships?
Training Materials: Foster Care and Permanency
- 2006 National Convening on Youth Permanence: Recommendations for Policy, Practice and Research
- A Lifetime of Love: Foster Youth Art and Messages
- Achieving Permanency: Guidelines for Expectations of County Child Welfare Staff
- Cost Avoidance: Bolstering the Economic Case for Investing in Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
- Foster Care Education Fact Sheets
Training Materials: Gomez Training
- CACI Grievance Review Officer Procedures, Draft May 08
- CACI Grievance Review Officer Procedures, Draft July 08
- Challenging Child Abuse Central Index
- Final Formal Grievance
- Grievance Hearing Request
- Grievance Procedures
- Letter
- Position Statement
- Recommended Decision
- Reporting Guidelines
- Sample Position Statement
- Supplemental Procedure
- Webinar Nov. 19, 2009
Training Materials: MISCELLANEOUS
- Developmental Screening
- Insight Vol. 4 (2010)
- Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC): A Social Worker’s Guide
- Interviewing Children with Disabilities
- Self-Care
- 21 Ways to Reduce Stress During the Workday
- Are You Burning Out?
- Is Your Lifestyle Causing You Stress?
- Professional Quality of Life Scale: Compassion, Satisfaction and Fatigue
- Self-Care Assessment
- Health Hints: Stress Warning Signes and Sympton
- Tips for Vitality and Serenity
- The Art of Powerful Questions
Training Materials: Multi-Disciplinary Colloaborative Leadership Institute
- Handouts will be posted here sooon!
Training Materials: Rural County Practice
Webinar Materials
- AB 12 Informational Convening: Placement & Licensing Breakout Session – December 9, 2011
- Innovations in Concurrent Planning (CP) – January 8 & 15, 2010
- Research and Evaluation Institute
- What is Evaluation? -- Cynthia Parry, Ph.D. (March 2, 2011)
- Evaluation: It’s Not Just “At the End” -- Terry Uyeki, M.S. Ed. (March 24, 2011)
- Conducting Child Welfare Research in a Rural Setting -- Holly Hatton, Ph.D. (April 12, 2011)
- Handout
- No Recorded Webinar Available
- A Manager’s Guide to Using Literature Review -- Susan Brooks M.S.W. (April 27, 2011)
- Handout
- Additional Handout: Parental Substance Use and the Child Welfare System
- Additional Handout: Where to Find Information on Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (EBPs) in Working with Youth
- Additional Handout: Resources
- No Recorded Webinar Available
- Interpreting Data -- Cynthia Parry, Ph.D. (May 18, 2011)
- Handout
- Additional Handout: Considerations for Child Welfare
Research in Rural Communities:
Community-Based Participatory Research
- Recorded Webinar
- Culturally Respectful Research in Tribal Communities -- Michelle Rainer, M.S.W., LCSW (June 1, 2011)
- Handout
- No Recorded Webinar Available
- Safety-Organized Practice (Changes to the CRC Integrated S.O.P. Module 6 & 9) – September 28, 2012
Web Links
- Children’s Advocacy Organization
- Action Alliance for Children
- American Public Human Services Association
- Children Now
- Children’s Defense Fund
- Child Welfare League of America
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- Research Forum on Children, Families and the New Federalism
- Urban Institute
- Child Care
- Administration for Children and Families (ACF)—Child Care Bureau
- Administration for Children and Families—National Child Care Information Center
- Child Care Aware
- Families and Work Institute
- Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (high-quality, objective research that supports decisions about our nation’s most pressing social policy problems)
- National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
- National Institute on Out-of-School Time
- National After School Association
- The Resource Center for Family Focused Practice
- Zero to Three (the nation’s leading resource on the first three years of life)
- Child Trauma
- NYU Child Study Center
- Ricky Greenwald’s Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute
- The ChildTrauma Academy (articles on child trauma and the effects of violence on children)
- Databases
- Child Trends (research and data to inform decision-making that effects children)
- Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Child Welfare Services (CWS/CMS) Reports
- National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
- Thomas (federal legislative information)
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Federal Child Welfare
- Administration for Children and Families
- Administration for Children and Families: Child Welfare Reviews, Promising Approaches
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Forum on Child and Family Statistics—Reports of the Federal Interagency
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
- National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Research and Training Center for Children’s Mental Health
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- State Child Welfare
- Bill information (search for bills in the California State Legislature)
- California Department of Child Support Services
- California Department of Social Services (CDSS)
- California Health and Human Services
- California Law: Welfare and Institutions Code
- Child Welfare Services Stakeholder Group, CDSS
- Children and Family Services Division, CDSS
- Foster Care Ombudsman Program, CDSS
- Little Hoover Commission
- Research and Development Division, CDSS (annual reports, etc.)
- The Federal Child and Family Services Review Project, CDSS
- Other Child Welfare Training Academies
- Bay Area Academy
- California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) (the California Social Work Education Center at the University of California, Berkeley)
- Central California Training Academy (the Central Regional Training Academy administered by California State University, Fresno)
- Inter-University Consortium (California State Universities at Long Beach and Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Southern California)
- Southern Region Public Child Welfare Training Academy (administered by the Public Child Welfare Training Academy at California State University, San Diego)
- Other Related Organizations
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