Culturally appropriate services are needed to support Latino families as they navigate kinship care placements, which appeal to the family system fundamental to Latino culture. This toolkit fills a critical gap to help organizations and…

Both inside and outside the child welfare system, the probability that African American children will live in grandfamilies is more than double that of the overall population, with one in five African American children living in grandfamilies at…

The family-centered coaching approach allows staff to partner with families holistically, taking into account their strengths and goals, challenges, and systemic barriers. This toolkit offers strategies, tools, and resources that can help…

This Community Action Partnership workbook contains a checklist of 12 components for community action agencies to use; this checklist encompasses the design and implementation of whole family approaches that result in improved integration of…

This toolkit by National Conference of State Legislatures focuses on new approaches and strategies to help families disrupt the cycle of poverty. The toolkit outlines and describes the fundamentals of two-generation approaches to address poverty…

The National Indian Child Welfare Association has produced a toolkit designed for family advocates, child welfare workers, and agencies engaging American Indian and Alaska Native children and families in Systems of Care (SOC). Developed and designed…

This guide from the Child Welfare Information Gateway is designed to help practitioners implement Family Group Decision-Making (FGDM). In FGDM, child welfare agencies actively engage families in developing a case plan to ensure the safety of their…

Cultural competence refers to “a set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that can be developed over time in order to work with those who appear and may be different from us.” This addition to the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse’s…

This tool from the Annie E. Casey Foundation provides an assessment and planning resources to help nonprofits evaluate their parent engagement efforts and create stronger partnerships with parents and caregivers.

This toolkit section focuses on the multigenerational approach to alleviate poverty by integrating services that address the needs of the whole family. The multigenerational approach is one of eight evidence-based and promising models identified in…