Center for States
Center for States
The Center for States helps public child welfare organizations and professionals build the capacity necessary to strengthen, implement, and sustain effective child welfare practice and achieve better outcomes for children, youth, and families.
Featured
- Prepermanency Services for Adoptive and Guardianship Families
Publication (PDF - 192 KB) - Quality Matters: Improving Caseworker Contacts With Children, Youth, and Families
Product Suite - Buzzwords: Moving to Behavioral Descriptors
Series - Decision-Making in Child Welfare for Improved Safety Outcomes
Publication (PDF - 256 KB) - A Guide to Five Dimensions of Organizational Capacity
Online Guide - Coaching in Child Welfare
Publication (PDF - 235 KB)
Focus Areas
The Center for States designs products, services, and learning experiences to increase understanding and awareness, and build knowledge and skills. In fiscal year 2016, the Center is focusing its attention on developing products and resources in several focus areas.
- Adoption
- Capacity Building
- Child Protection
- Child Welfare
Information Systems - Continuous
Quality Improvement - Family Empowerment
- Family Preservation
and In-Home Services - Foster Care
and Permanency - Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender,
and Questioning - Preventing Sex
Trafficking and Strengthening
Families Act - State Agency-Court
Topics - State-Tribal
Topics - Title IV-E Waiver
Demonstration - Workforce Development
- Youth
Development
