This blogpost examines the likelihood of children’s risk to returning to foster care if they are infants, in their early teens, or have experienced a group placement before reunification with their birth families. The blogpost summarizes research on…

This blogpost by the Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) highlights the activities of ACYF’s Children’s Bureau and Family and Youth Services Bureau, which both support states, faith-based and community…

The Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management developed and launched this database, which is an updated index of 29 neighborhood-level indicators pointing to opportunities…

This U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime webpage discusses vicarious trauma and contains suggestions for coworkers and supervisors who may be experiencing vicarious trauma, as well as family members of victim service…

This compassion resilience toolkit webpage features the importance of incorporating compassion resilience (the ability to maintain one’s well-being while interacting compassionately with individuals who are suffering) in the health care field and…

This fact sheet, as part of the Administration for Children and Families Resource Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services, introduces the concept of “executive function” and discusses the concept’s applicability and importance to human services…

This MDRC series includes six podcasts that reflect evidence-based programming for education and social programs, at both the design and evaluation stages. Podcast speakers include MDRC researchers and field practitioners and cover: Using Data-…

By March 2020, states are required to submit WIOA Unified and Combined State Plans for the period of 2020-2023. To assist States and their partners, the Departments of Labor, Education, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services hosted a webcast…

This blogpost profiles Youth Support Partners, a program from the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Department of Human Services, which intends to give a voice to youth who engaged in the child welfare system in their relationship with assigned…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) brief offers a summary and updated review of the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE) initiative. OPRE reviewed 21 program models identified as fitting the evidence-based early…