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
- Working With Children and Youth With Complex Clinical Needs: Strategies in the Safe Reduction of Congregate Care
Publication - An Overview of Independent Verification and Validation Services for Child Welfare Information Systems Development
Publication (PDF - 249 KB) - Youth Engagement Blueprint Series
Publications - Having the Normalcy Conversation Series
Publications - Empowering Caregivers, Strengthening Families
Video Series - Pathways to Permanency: Collaborating on the APPLA Provisions
of P.L. 113–183
Infographic (PDF - 167 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
