Policy and Practice
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Casey Family Services
Casey Family Services is a fully licensed and accredited non-profit child welfare agency providing a broad range of programs to meet the changing needs of vulnerable children and families. Founded in 1976 solely as a source for long-term foster care, Casey Family Services today offers foster care for children, as well as post-adoption, preservation and reunification services for families. In addition, Casey has established a number of specialized and innovative community-based programs to help strengthen families and enable parents to provide the healthy, nurturing environments their children need to grow and thrive.
Web: www.caseyfamilyservices.org
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
CLASP is an organization of program staff whose work is concentrated on family policy and access to civil legal assistance for low-income families. Family policy projects include welfare reform, workforce development, child care, child support enforcement, child welfare, couples and marriage policy, and reproductive health and teen parents. Civil legal assistance projects include "general counsel" to LSC-funded programs and the Project for the Future of Equal Justice.
Web: www.clasp.org
Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy
The Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy (CSADP) provides public education, leadership development and training, technical assistance and information dissemination, and conducts action-research and analysis of public policy issues affecting individuals with disabilities and their families.
You will find links to information on the following topics:
- Advocacy Training Materials
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Disability Policy in General
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Olmstead Supreme Court Case
- Personal Assistance Services (PAS)
- Rehabilitation Act (see Vocational Rehabilitation)
- State Medicaid Buy-In Program and State Work Incentives
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Workforce Investment Act
Web: www.disabilitypolicycenter.org
Center for the Study of Social Policy
The Center for the Study of Social Policy strives to help states and localities implement creative and effective strategies that strengthen disadvantaged communities and families and ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.
Web: www.cssp.org
Child Welfare League of America
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), is the oldest and largest national non-profit organization developing and promoting policies and programs to protect America's children and strengthen America's families. CWLA's 1,000 plus public and private member agencies serve 3 million abused and neglected children and their families each year.
Web: www.cwla.org
Child Welfare League of America- Best Practice Guidelines: Child Maltreatment in Foster Care
Allegations of maltreatment of children in foster care are made for an array of reasons. It is most important to identify those instances in which the child is in danger or at risk of harm. Responses to and investigations of these allegations must be conducted in a skilled and objective manner to ensure the child's safety, prevent unnecessary disruption to the child, foster family, and birthparents, and minimize trauma to all parties. CWLA's Best Practice Guidelines: Child Maltreatment in Foster Care provide comprehensive, quality practices for the prevention, response, and investigation of out-of-home maltreatment. Using sound administrative and casework practices, professionals learn how to prevent such incidents, whenever possible, and competently respond and investigate those situations in which allegations of abuse and neglect in foster families occur.
Web: http://www.casey.org/cnc/policy_issues/child_maltreatment.htm
The Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies at Columbia University
The Clearinghouse provides cross-national, comparative information about the policies, programs, benefits and services available in the advanced industrialized countries to address child, youth, and family needs. Coverage focuses on 23 advanced industrialized countries. Expansion to other countries and other parts of the world is planned.
Web: www.childpolicyintl.org
Updated: Jun 3rd, 2008 - 13:09:25
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