This ABA Center on Children and the Law resource helps child welfare professionals understand the key provisions, how to use the Act in legal advocacy and judicial decision making, and implementation strategies to better servie children and families. 

A partnership between Casey Family Programs, the ABA Center on Children and the Law, the Children’s Law Center of CA and the WA Office of Public Defense, has produced a new resource page for the legal field during the COVID-19 pandemic. The resource page offers concrete practice tips for how to deliver high-quality legal representation during the ongoing public health crisis.

Follow up to the Making it Work Report (2015).

This letter outlines new policy changes to allow videoconferencing for monthly caseworker visits due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to changes related to program improvement plans, title IV-E reviews, and more. 

Presents the latest findings on the impact of relative care for children in foster care, describes the role of relatives as permanent families for the children in their care, and offers cost-effective ways to support relatives as caregivers through federal policy, from Kids Are Waiting and Generations United (2007).