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
- A Data-Driven Approach to Service Array
Guide and Worksheet - Inventory of Innovations
Series - CJA 101: Quick Facts About the Children's Justice Act Grant
Publication (PDF - 227 KB) - SLO 101: Quick Facts About State Liaison Officers
Publication (PDF - 164 KB) - Showcase: Safety Outcomes and Decision-Making Approaches
Publication (PDF - 195 KB) - A Guide to Five Dimensions of Organizational Capacity
Online Guide
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 - Diligent Recruitment
- 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
