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Child in Need of Care Proceedings: Bench Cards For Essential Judicial Functions With Reporting Forms and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Information Provided by the Court Improvement Program Louisiana Supreme Court Revised August 2010 with Best ...
Orleans Parish Juvenile Court - Judge Ernestine Gray In Louisiana, permanency hearings are held 12 months after a child comes into custody and every six months thereafter. Judge Ernestine S. Gray conducts Benchmark Conferences for youth between the ag ...
Innovative ideas for improved court practice to expedite permanency for children.
By recognizing the potential impact of trauma on parenting, judges and attorneys can more easily connect parents with services that will meet their needs. This resource from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network addresses the following questions: Wh ...
American Bar Association Therese Roe Lund, MSSW - National Resource Center for Child Protective Services Jennifer Renne, JD - National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues Foreword- Judges in abuse and neglect proceedings are responsible for ...
Child Welfare Information Gateway connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. We feature the latest on topics from prevention to permanency, including child ...
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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The ABA Center on Children and the Law is pleased to announce the release of Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Futures: A Judge’s Guide. This Guide is the result of a collaboration with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the Zero to T ...
Mark Hardin ABA Center on Children and the Law The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Public Law 105-89 (ASFA) enacted new requirements for “permanency hearings” on behalf of children in foster care. ASFA’s requirements for permanency hearings w ...
PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS FOR COURT ORGANIZATION, JUDICIAL SELECTION AND ASSIGNMENT, JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION AND JUDICIAL EDUCATION Approved by the American Bar Association House of Delegates on August 9, 2010
A Permanent Home for Every Child “Reasonable efforts” has been one of the most hotly debated and confusing issues in the field of child welfare over the past two decades. This handbook explains what reasonable efforts are as we move out of the 1990s. I ...
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Models for Change is a long-term, $100 million investment in more fair, rational, effective and developmentally appropriate approaches to juvenile justice. The MacArthur Foundation began making grants to organizations in the juvenile justice field in ...
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 ...