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Child Welfare Information Gateway |
These results are current as of: September 15, 2012
Organizations that provide information on child welfare legal issues for legal, court, and agency professionals serving children and families. If you are aware of any others, please contact Child Welfare Information Gateway at OrganizationUpdates@childwelfare.gov. Inclusion on this list is for information purposes and does not constitute an endorsement by Child Welfare Information Gateway or the Children's Bureau.
To search for child-welfare related national organizations by topic, use the Related Organizations Search at http://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/search.cfm.
Phone: | (202) 662-1720 |
Fax: | (202) 662-1755 |
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues - http://www.abanet.org/child/rclji/home.html
- Grandfamilies State Law & Policy Resource Center - http://grandfamilies.org/
Fax: | (408) 245-9289 |
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- Family Law Sites - http://aboutthekids.org/famlaw.html
- Mediation - http://aboutthekids.org/mediation.html
- State Bar Associations - http://aboutthekids.org/bar.html
Phone: | (202) 832-2222 |
Phone: | (202) 483-3399 |
(800) 888-7970 |
Phone: | (202) 662-1000 |
Toll-Free: | (800) 285-2221 |
Training Specific: A portion of the ABA website is dedicated to Education Resources, including continuing legal education and educating the public. For more information, see http://www.abanet.org/education.html.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- ABA Section of Family Law - http://www.abanet.org/family/home.html
- Standards of Practice for Attorneys.... - http://www.abanet.org/child/clp/ParentStds.pdf
Phone: | (312) 988-5145 |
(202) 662-1000 | |
Fax: | (312) 988-6800 |
Phone: | (703) 549-9222 |
Fax: | (703) 836-3195 |
An APRI program, the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse (NCPCA), is a resource for expert legal assistance, training, court reform, and up-to-date information on criminal child abuse investigations and prosecutions.
Training Specific: APRI offers training for State and local prosecutors covering a wide variety of topics, including child protection, via links from the home page.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- National Center For Prosecution of Child Abuse - http://www.ndaa.org/ncpca_home.html
Phone: | (202) 682-0100 |
Fax: | (202) 289-6555 |
Phone: | (202) 682-0100 |
Fax: | (202) 289-6555 |
Phone: | (202) 906-8000 |
Fax: | (202) 842-2885 |
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- Child Welfare - http://www.clasp.org/issues?type=child_welfare
Phone: | (402)472-3479 |
Fax: | (402)472-8412 |
Training Specific: The Center provides competency-based case management training to child protection and safety workers and juvenile services officers employed by the Nebraska Health and Human Services System (NHHSS). The training covers a broad scope of services including: training needs assessment; assessment of worker performance; training development and delivery (pre-service, in-service, and specialized); and training evaluation. For additional information, see http://ccfl.unl.edu/services/training/.
Fax: | (703) 225-2357 |
Toll-Free: | (800) 394-3366 |
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to programs, research, laws and policies, training resources, statistics, and much more.
Phone: | (503) 717-1552 |
Fax: | (503) 717-1702 |
The FosterClub website also includes information for two specific groups:
- Transition Club (http://transition.fosterclub.com/) helps young people transitioning out of foster care with information on permanency, independent living, higher education, and more.
- Booster Club (http://booster.fosterclub.com/), a resource designed for the adults who care for foster children. Caseworkers, independent living providers, advocates and foster parents will find related resources, tools, and articles.
The Resource Center is a collaboration between Casey Family Programs, the American Bar Association's Center on Children and the Law, and Generations United.
Fax: | (301) 519-5212 |
Toll-Free: | (800) 851-3420 |
Phone: | (212) 809-8585 |
Fax: | (212) 809-0055 |
Phone: | (305) 577-4771 |
(860) 273-0441 |
Fax: | (202) 662-1755 |
The Legal Center FCE is a collaboration between Casey Family Programs and the ABA Center on Children and the Law, in conjunction with the Education Law Center-PA and the Juvenile Law Center.
Phone: | (202) 662-1720 |
Toll-Free: | (800) 285-2221 |
Legal Center FCE is a national technical assistance resource and information clearinghouse on legal and policy matters affecting the education of children in the foster care system.
The LII provides Federal and State information involving Adoption, Child Custody, and other Family Law topics. This includes links to full-text laws.
Phone: | (303) 864-5320 |
Fax: | (303) 864-5351 |
Toll-Free: | (888) 828-NACC |
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- NACC Child Welfare Law Specialist - http://www.naccchildlaw.org/?page=Certification
Phone: | (614) 236-6730 |
Fax: | (614) 236-6958 |
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- The Adoption LawSite Project - http://www.adoptionlawsite.com/
Phone: | (703) 549-4253 |
Fax: | (703) 836-3195 |
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- State Statutes - http://www.ndaa.org/ncpca_state_statutes.html
Fax: | (757) 564-2022 |
Toll-Free: | (800) 616-6164 |
Fax: | (501) 835-8099 |
TTY: | (510) 835-8098 |
Phone: | (303) 364-7700 |
(202) 624-5400 | |
Fax: | (303) 364-7800 |
(202) 737-1069 |
Phone: | (703) 299-6633 |
Phone: | (775) 784-6012 |
With funding from the Packard Foundation and the U. S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, the NCJFCJ's "Greenbook Initiative" (Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice) includes recommendations to help child welfare and domestic violence agencies and family courts work together more effectively to help families experiencing violence. Many sites around the country have used it to improve their policies and practices. See http://www.thegreenbook.info/ for more information about this initiative.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- Permanency Planning for Children Dept. - http://www.ncjfcj.org/content/blogcategory/131/169/
- Family Violence Department - http://www.ncjfcj.org/content/view/20/94/
Phone: | (206) 270-0072 |
Fax: | (206) 270-0078 |
Toll-Free: | (800) 628-3233 |
Training Specific: National CASA creates new, research-based training opportunities, such as its new e-learning series on educational advocacy, and continuously improves its core volunteer training curriculum.
Phone: | (877) 326-5992 |
Fax: | (814) 355-2452 |
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- Guardianship Resources - http://www.guardianship.org/guardianshipResources.htm
- NGA State Affiliates - http://www.guardianship.org/affiliates.htm
- Center for Guardianship Certification - http://www.guardianshipcert.org/
Phone: | (202) 307-2942 |
Phone: | (703) 548-5522 |
Fax: | (703) 548-5544 |
Phone: | (202) 452-0620 |
Fax: | (202) 872-1031 |
Phone: | (734) 764-4000 |
The QIC-ChildRep is a collaboration between the U.S. Children's Bureau and the University of Michigan Law School.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- QIC BEST PRACTICE MODEL OF CHILD REPRESENTATION - http://improvechildadvocacy.org/DemonstrationProjects/QICChildRepBestPracticeModel.aspx
Phone: | (202) 662-1747 |
Fax: | (202) 662-1755 |
Toll-Free: | (800) 285-2221 |
Areas of focus include permanency decision-making, adherence to the Adoption and Safe Families Act and other Federal laws, the court's role in the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) and child welfare reform, high quality legal representation for all parties, performance measurement for courts, data exchange between child welfare agencies and courts, judicial leadership, education needs of children in foster care, and legal ethics.
The NRCLJI is a funded by the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Phone: | (202) 662-1736 |
Fax: | (202) 662-1755 |
Toll-Free: | (800) 285-2221 |
Training Specific: The Center offers training to meet needs indentified in the PIPs such as improving the timeliness of judicial decision-making and ASFA nuts and bolts implementation for judges.
In addition, the Center has workshops that may be helpful to States and Tribes in the CFSR process, including:
- Best Practices to Implement ASFA: Creative Strategies for Permanence
- Making it Permanent: Efforts to Finalize Permanency Plans for Children in Foster Care
- Meeting Educational Needs of Children in Foster Care.
Phone: | (904) 419-7861 |
Fax: | (904) 239-5888 |
SVN resources include a directory of providers and chapters, information on regional training opportunities, and a section dedicated to information for parents.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- SVN Parent Handbook - http://www.svnetwork.net/parent-handbook.asp
Toll-Free: | (800) 375-5283 |
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- Immigration Statistics - http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/
Phone: | (773) 702-9560 |
The Center offers a model through which Young Center attorneys, who have experience in immigration and child welfare law, recruit, train and supervise bilingual law and social work students as well as lay volunteers, who are assigned to serve as Child Advocates (guardians ad litem) for individual unaccompanied children. The Young Center also advocates for policy change at the local and national level.
The Young Center is part of the legal clinic at the University of Chicago Law School as an independent project.
Phone: | (415) 543-3379 |
Fax: | (415) 956-9022 |
The Center's efforts have focused on strengthening families and advocating for education, medical and mental health, legal support, and transition services needed to assure children's success in care and in the community.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- Just Beginning - http://www.justbeginning.org/
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