How did Hawaii gain staff and stakeholder support when centralizing its hotline?
Hawaii employed various strategies to earn buy-in from staff and community stakeholders during its transition to a centralized hotline.
Strategy Brief
What is New Jersey’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services intervention?
Mobile Response and Stabilization Services provides immediate support to stabilize children in crisis and keep them safe at home.
How can investigation, removal, and placement processes be more trauma-informed?
This strategy brief describes ways to integrate trauma-informed practice into all decision points in the child protection process.
What do we know about birth match?
A few jurisdictions are using birth match as a data-based strategy to predict future risk and harm of infants, but ethical tensions exist.
How did Texas decrease caseworker turnover and stabilize its workforce?
This brief summarizes Texas Department of Family and Protective Services strategies to decrease caseworker turnover in just over one year.
What are the elements of an effective hotline system?
Hotline systems provide the first contact between the public and the child protection agency; this strategy brief outlines key elements.
What is Ohio START (Sobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma)?
Learn about Ohio’s Sobriety, Treament and Reducing Trauma intervention to address the opioid epidemic.
Is Project KEEP a meaningful support for resource parents?
Learn about a program that has demonstrated compelling results in improving child behaviors and reducing foster care placement disruption.