| 2008 Children’s Budget Analysis | A 2008 report from First Focus containing raw data on funding trends for all national budgetary programs related to children. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit Program | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Barbara Needell PowerPoint | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Business Expense Voucher | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: CPCMS PowerPoint | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Evaluation Form | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Frank Cervone PowerPoint | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Judge Charles Pratt PowerPoint | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Judge Kim Berkeley Clark PowerPoint | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Judge Stephen Rubin PowerPoint | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Judy Silver PowerPoint | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| 2009 Children’s Summit: Larry Brown PowerPoint | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| ABA Child Safety Manual | A guide from the American Bar Association detailing a process of critical thinking and analysis to help judges enhance decision-making on child safety issues. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Adoption and Safe Families Act | U.S. Public Law 105–89. The goal of the Adoption and Safe Families Act is to improve the safety of children, to promote adoption and other permanent homes for children who need them and to support families. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| All Children Deserve a Permanent Home | A report from Generations United including a new study on foster care in the United States. Generations United is a national membership organization focused solely on improving the lives of children. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Alternative Response Quarterly | A newsletter updating the progress of Ohio's Alternative Response program which is designed to improve the state's system for accepting and investigating reports of child abuse and neglect. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Benchbook | PA Dependency Benchbook | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library |
| Big Ideas for Children | A collection of essays compiled by First Focus on a wide range of topics relating to children and families. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Bill of Rights for Children in Foster Care | A document prepared by the National Foster Parent Association ensuring that Every child in foster care is endowed with the rights inherently belonging to all children. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Business Expense Voucher | | judges-legal-professionals-library |
| California County Scoreboard on Children’s Well-Being | A county-by-county analysis of the systems in place to guarantee that California's children have the opportunity to grow into viable adults. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Childrens & Adolescents Resource Book | A book created for use as both a training tool and a reference for child welfare workers by the The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Concurrent Planning for Permanency for Children | A guide to the concept of concurrent planning from the Child Welfare Information Gateway. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Court Performance Measures in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases – Assessment Guide | A tool kit designed by the U.S. Department of Justice providing practical and comprehensive guidance to the task of measuring court performance in child abuse and neglect cases. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Court Performance Measures in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases – Implementation Guide | This Implementation Guide from the U.S. Department of Justice is intended to provide assistance to child abuse and neglector dependency courts as they implement a process of performance measurement. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Court Performance Measures in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases – Key Measures | A booklet from the U.S. Department of Justice outlining nine measures that the national partners have identified as key to determining court performance in child abuse and neglect cases. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Court Performance Measures in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases – Technical Guide | This overview document from the U.S. Department of Justice looks at the major considerations in designing and implementing a court performance measurement data collection and reporting system for child abuse and neglect cases. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Court Performance Measures in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases – User’s Guide | This User’s Guide to Nonautomated Data Collection from the U.S. Department of Justice provides the reader with instructions about how to use the resources in the related tool kit to measure court performance. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Family Search & Engagement | A set of practices designed to locate, engage, connect and support family resources for youth from the Catholic Community Services of Western Washington and EMQ Children & Family Services. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Foster Care Concurrent Planning Brochure | A family's guide to concurrent planning from the Wyoming Department of Family Services. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Foster Youth Perspectives | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Fostering Results | Supporting Permanence for Children in Safe and Stable Foster CareWith Relatives and Other Caregivers | parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Handbook for Youth in Foster Care | A handbook written for youth entering foster care for the first time as well as youth already in foster care by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Indian Child Welfare Act | A piece of Congressional legislation that governs the jurisdiction over adoption and custody of American Indian children. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Indian Child Welfare Handbook | A handbook developed as a way of disseminating information regarding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and what it requires of county children and youth agencies provided by the Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Know Your Rights: A Guide for Youth in Substitute Care | This guide from the Juvenile Law Center and KidsVoice will help foster children prepare to leave the system and meet their goals as a successful, happy, healthy and productive adults. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care System Handbook | A fact sheet from the National Center for Lesbian Rights about the treatment of LGBTQ children in the foster care system. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| National Education Fact Sheet | A collection of statistics compiled by Casey Family Programs that relate to educational outcomes for children and youth in foster care. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| PA Supreme Court Holds Annual Children’s Roundtable Meeting | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Pennsylvania Standards for Child Welfare Practice | The standards for Child Welfare Practice at both the direct service level and at the agency administration level established by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Permanency: More than just homes | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Preparing Caregivers for Court | A guide from the Pennsylvania Child Welfare Program designed to prepare caretakers and parents for their child's day in court. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Promising Court Practices | | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| PSRFA Court Guide for Foster Parents | A booklet designed to help resource parents provide information about children to the court and to the local child welfare agency. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Strengthening Families Through Guardianship | An issue brief from the Pew Charitable Trust that outlines why supported legal guardianship with a relative or another caring adult can improve life for children in foster care. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| The Juvenile Act | 42 Pa.C.S. Sec. 6301 et seq. The Pennsylvania legislation that addresses juvenile matters of the court. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| The Nuts and Bolts of Service Planning | A section of A Family’s Guide to the Child Welfare System outlining and explaining service planning for parents. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Time for Reform | An issue brief from the Pew Charitable Trust that shows that providing families with a broader array of services and supports can effectively prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring in the first place. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
| Truancy: A Call to Action | Report and Recommendations to the Pennsylvania State Roundtable 2010 | judges-legal-professionals-library |
| Visitation Handbook | A guide from Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare, Office of Children, Youth and Families that covers a plethora of issues related to visitation. | judges-legal-professionals-library parents-families-library system-professionals-library |
