Here is an information-packed child welfare site, the Children’s Bureau Express.

Their June 2009 Online Digest contains such information as:

• News From the Children’s Bureau

The month of June brings a new PSA campaign to encourage adoption from foster care. Helping youth is a focus, with a site visit report and a Federal interagency effort for all disadvantaged youth. And, as always, find great new resources from the T&TA Network.

• National Adoption Recruitment Campaign PSAs Launch
• Site Visit: Training on Transitioning Youth
• Shared Youth Vision Partnerships Report Progress
• Updates From the T&TA Network
• New! On the Children’s Bureau Site

• Spotlight on Community Engagement and Collaboration

This month, CBX looks at how community efforts can effect change in families’ lives. Examples from across the country show the benefits of collaborations across community agencies and populations.

• Learning From Collaborative Reform Efforts
• Strong Communities for Children
• CASA Program Results From Community Efforts
• Community Interventions for Child and Domestic Abuse
• Children’s Futures Initiative Helps a City
• KIDS COUNT Data Center Offers Community Data

• Child Welfare News

CBX highlights evidence-based practices in parent training, housing-based efforts for transitioning youth, guiding principles for rural research, and the impact of parents’ probationary status on their children.

• Providing the “Evidence” for Evidence-Based Practice in Parent Training
• Probationer Parents and the Child Welfare System
• Lighthouse Independent Living Program Bridges Gap for Adolescents
• Accommodating Rural and Tribal Issues in Research

• Strategies and Tools for Practice

CBX offers tools for practitioners, including guidelines for community investigations of child injury, resources for implementing Fostering Connections, and an international manual to measure indicators of well-being.

• Guidelines for Multi-Agency Investigations of Severe Child Injury
• Resources for the Fostering Connections Act
• Manual for Indicators Works Globally and Locally

• Resources

• Exploring Youth Options From Many Perspectives
• New Jobsite for Adoption and Child Welfare
• Laws on Family Engagement

• Training and Conferences

• Evidence-Based Practice and Cultural Competence
• Conferences

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COMING SOON:  I am in the process of transcribing my mother’s 1953 diary, the year John turned 3, I turned 2 and Cindy was born.  Will be posted as soon as I complete it.

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