National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning

Who We Are

The National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (NRCFCPPP) focuses on increasing the capacity and resources of State, Tribal, and other publicly supported child welfare agencies to promote family-centered practices that support the safety, permanency, and well-being of children while meeting the needs of their families. The NRCFCPPP helps States and Tribes to implement strategies to expand knowledge, increase competencies, and change attitudes of child welfare professionals at all levels, with the goal of infusing family-centered principles and practices in their work with children, youth, and families who enter the child welfare system. The NRCFCPPP builds States' knowledge of permanency planning, placement stability, and other foster care issues.

How We Can Help

The NRCFCPPP provides both onsite assistance and a variety of information services.

Onsite Training and Technical Assistance
The NRCFCPPP offers onsite training and technical assistance to States, territories, Tribes, and other publicly supported child welfare agencies on a wide range of issues that promote sustainable systemic reform in child welfare. The NRCFCPPP is particularly focused on working with States throughout all stages of the CFSRs, including the development and implementation of States' Program Improvement Plans (PIPs).

Sample areas of technical assistance include:

Supporting practices such as family group conferencing and family group decision-making that engage families in assessment, case planning, case review, and timely decision-making about reunification, adoption, guardianship, kin placement or appropriate use of Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement (APPLA)
Planning strategies to engage parents, courts, legal personnel, and community partners in the provision of safety-focused, family-centered services to children, youth, and families
Promoting quality goal-oriented worker/child visiting, worker/parent (foster and birth) visiting, and visiting between children and youth in care and their parents
Helping with permanency planning, effective concurrent planning, and goal achievement for all children and adolescents
Supporting recruitment and retention of resource families and dual licensure issues
Addressing foster care issues, including increasing placement stability, reducing disproportional representation of children and youth of color in foster care, and developing effective postpermanency services
Building relationships between Tribes and States, including promoting cultural competency to increase understanding of Indian culture and improving State compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act
Facilitating IV-E agreements between States and Tribes
Engaging fathers and paternal resources in permanency planning
Addressing sibling issues
Working with birth families to promote reunification
Enhancing services, including developing and strengthening home-based services to preserve families; supporting child welfare practices that address substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental health issues for families; and addressing health and mental health care issues for children and youth in foster care

Information Services
The NRCFCPPP also offers information services to State, Tribal, and other publicly supported child welfare agencies to promote family-centered practices that support the safety, permanency, and well-being of children while meeting the needs of their families. Information is provided in the following formats:

NRCFCPPP Weekly Update
Web-based information services
Publications and curricula in English/Spanish
Quarterly webcasts
Semiannual newsletter
Teleconference series
Podcasts of teleconference series
Responses to State/Tribe requests for information

For More Information

Address:	Hunter College School of Social Work 129 East 79th Street, Suite 801 New York, NY 10021
Phone:	212.452.7043
Fax:	212.452.7475
Email:	gmallon@hunter.cuny.edu
Website:	http://www.nrcfcppp.org
Contact:	Gerald P. Mallon, D.S.W., Executive Director

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