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Child Welfare Publications

Adoption | Child and Family Service Reviews | Child Protection | Cross Systems | Financing | Foster Care | Independent Living and Youth in Transition | Kinship Care | Legislation | Prevention | Racial Equity | Substance Abuse

Adoption

• Expediting Adoption of Children from Foster Care: Recent State Legislation, June 2003
• Post-Adoption Services: Issues for Legislators, November 2002
• Healing the Hole in the Heart Steve Christian, December 2002
• A Place to Call Home: Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Foster Care, Executive Summary, Steve Christian, March 2000

Child and Family Service Reviews

• Supporting Improvements in Child Welfare Systems Through the Child and Family Services Reviews, May 2006
• Child and Family Service Reviews: Implications for state Oversight of Local Child Welfare System, May 2001

Child Protection

• Protecting the Youngest: The Role of Early Care and Education in Preventing and Responding to Child Maltreatment, Steve Christian and Julie Poppe, September 2007
• Safe Havens for Abandoned Infants, September 2001
• A New Look at Child Protection Nina Williams-Mbengue and Kyle Ramirez-Fry, December, 1999
• Safe Haven for Babies (Stateline, abandoning babies in "safe" place) February 2002, Page 11
• Confidentiality of Child Protective Services Records, Legisbrief, Nina Williams-Mbengue, June/July1998, Vol. 6, No. 29
• New Directions for Child Protective Services: Supporting Children, Families and Communities through Legislative Reform, Steve Christian, July 1997

Cross Systems

• Delivering on the Promise: Promoting Court Capacity to Improve Outcomes for Abused and Neglected Children: A Primer for Policymakers, May 2007
• Helping Domestic Violence Victims in the TANF Program, March 2002
• Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence: Is it Child Abuse? January 2002

Financing

• The Changing Landscape of Federal Child Welfare Financing, December 2006         

Foster Care

• Educating Children in Foster Care: State Legislation 2004-2007, March 2008
• Child Welfare Caseworker Visits with Children and Parents, September 2006             
• Educating Children in Foster Care, Children's Policy Initiative, December 2003
• Supporting and Retaining Foster Parents, April 2002
• Returning Home from Foster Care: What Policymakers Need to Know, December 2001

Independent Living and Youth in Transition

• Extending Foster Care Beyond Age 18, LegisBrief, Steve Christian, Vol. 14, No. 37, October 2006
• Independent Living for Foster Youth, Executive Summary, Christine Eilertson, February 2002

Kinship Care

• Helping Grandparents Caregivers: Kinship Navigator Programs, LegisBrief, Nina Williams-Mbengue, June/July 2007, Vol. 15, No. 27
• "All in the Family," State Legislatures, December 2006
• Grandparent and Relative Caregivers: Medical Consent and Educational Enrollment Laws, LegisBrief, Nina Williams-Mbengue, February 2006, Vol. 14, No. 10           

Legislation

• State Child Welfare Legislation 2005, July 2006
• State Child Welfare Legislation 2004
• State Child Welfare Legislation 2002-2003, March 2004
• State Child Welfare Legislation: 2001, February 2002
• 1998 State Legislative Responses to the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, March 1999

Prevention

• "States Using Evidence-Based Methods to Prevent Child Abuse," Public Health News, May 3, 2004
• Promoting Young Children's Social and Emotional Readiness for School, March 2003

Racial Equity

• "The Color of Care," State Legislatures, April 2007

Substance Abuse

• Substance-Exposed Newborns: New Federal Law Raises Some Old Issues, Children's Policy Initiative, September 2004
• Linking Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Treatment: A Guide for Legislators, Executive Summary, Steve Christian, August 2000

Copies of these publications may be ordered by contacting the NCSL Marketing Department at 303/364-7700.

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