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Midwest Regional CAC has a webinar on Cross Examining the Defense Expert in Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Cases Presented by Justin Fitzsimmons, JD – National District Attorney’s Association

The Child Welfare Outcomes Report to Congress reflects on 7 areas of reporting on a federal and state-by-state basis from 2006 to 2009. This is the 10th report to be issued allowing for longitudinal comparisons.

Although safety and permanency performance measures for cases involving children in foster care have been established, tested, and implemented, court-related well-being measures have yet to be developed. This article describes the initial effort to establ ...

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Midwest Regional CAC's Forensic Interviewer Webinar Series A series of archived webinars and handouts that cover the ten-step interview and review research and practice regarding recantations and reluctance, the use of dolls and drawings, eliciting detai ...

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Helping Child Welfare Workers Support Families with Substance Use, Mental, and Co-Occurring Disorders Training Package was developed to educate child welfare professionals about substance abuse and mental health disorders among families involved in the ch ...

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Midwest Region CAC has several webinars online for non-medical professionals working with child abuse and neglect cases. They are presented by Rich Kaplan, MSW, MD. • Understanding the Role of the Medical Provider • Recognizing Abusive Injuries • Abus ...

The quality of life of 17-year-olds reared in lesbian-parent families did not differ from that of a matched group of adolescents who grew up in heterosexual-parent families, according to a new study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral ...

The ABA Center on Children and the Law is pleased to announce that its latest Practice & Policy Brief -- Psychotropic Medication and Children in Foster Care: Tips for Advocates and Judges -- is now available from the Child Welfare Information Gateway ...

This edition of the TWC Practice Toolkit includes articles on: Structured Decision Making Meaningful Family Engagement: Considerations for Moving Beyond "Getting a Parent" Engaging Non-Custodial Fathers in Child Welfare Child Abuse or Mimic? A Tool ...

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Midwest Regional CAC has prepared four different webinars to address various issues children are faced. The presenter is Scott Modell, Ph.D.: • Understanding and Communicating with Children with Autism • Understanding and Communicating with Children ...

NCCPR has updated its interactive database on foster care placements. The database shows the proportion of children in each type of "care" (kinship foster care, foster care with strangers, group homes and institutions, etc.) in 2009 and 2010. Data are av ...

The goal of this publication is to provide relevant and practical information for public child welfare agencies and social workers when working with incarcerated parents and their children, including a chapter on immigration. This primer also outlines the ...