How have family-serving agencies in New York City partnered to implement the Infant Safe Sleep Initiative?
Learn how the Administration for Children’s Services partnered with other New York City agencies to educate the public about safe sleep.
Poverty
How are child welfare systems using flexible funds to support families and prevent the need for foster care?
Learn how using economic and concrete support strategies to address basic needs can support families and help prevent family separation.
What supports can benefit kinship caregivers in families affected by substance use disorder?
Learn how the child welfare system can support kinship caregivers whose families are affected by substance use disorders.
What should every child protection agency do to ensure that children are placed with kin?
Explore three key principles to learn how child protection agencies can make placing children with kin caregivers a universal practice.
Can reductions in child poverty impact involvement with child protective services?
Learn from research that explores how policies that reduce child poverty would result in lower involvement with child protective services.
The effects of child poverty reductions on child protective services involvement
How would reducing child poverty affect referrals to CPS and foster care placements? Would it reduce racial disproportionality? Learn more.
What should child protection agencies consider when working with children whose parent or primary caregiver is incarcerated?
Learn how child protection agencies can support children whose parent or primary caregiver is incarcerated.
How did New York City’s Community Partnerships and Family Enrichment Centers respond to families during a time of crisis?
Learn how New York City leveraged Family Enrichment Centers and Community Partnerships to support families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How have community voice and leadership guided the implementation of Family Success Centers in Washington, D.C.?
Explore how family success centers in Washington D.C. neighborhoods work with community partners to provide upstream support to families.
How could behavioral design improve frontline child welfare practice?
ideas42 outlines strategies from behavioral science for reducing stressors on child welfare staff.