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Series: Bulletins for Professionals |
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Child Welfare Information Gateway.
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Year Published: 2010 |
Additional Resources and References
Resources
National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections
(formerly, the National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning)
Provides training and technical assistance and information services to help States, with an emphasis on family-centered principles and practices.
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement
Offers technical assistance, training, teleconferences, and publications to assist States with strategic planning, quality improvement, evaluating outcomes, facilitating stakeholder involvement, and improving training and workforce development.
National Center on Family Group Decision Making (FGDM)
Helps build community capacity to implement high-quality, effective FGDM processes by sharing resources, advancing family-driven practices, creating knowledge, and building links to improve the implementation and evaluation of family group decision-making, both in the United States and abroad.
The National Center on Family Group Decision Making also offers A Compilation of State and Provincial Laws, Policies, Rules and Regulations on Family Group Decision Making and Other Family Engagement Approaches in Child Welfare Decision Making. The paper identifies and provides brief descriptions of relevant laws and policies for 16 States, the District of Columbia, and 3 Canadian provinces.
References
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