The Children’s Bureau and Office of Community Services developed a toolkit entitled “A Financial Empowerment Toolkit for Youth and Young Adults in Foster Care.” This toolkit aims to provide caseworkers, care providers, foster parents, and other…

On December 3, 2014, ORR hosted a webinar on the Annual Outcome Goal Plan (AOGP). The AOGP is required annually for of all states and Wilson-Fish agencies The webinar reviews each section of the AOGP, highlighting key points and important…

Youth transitioning out of foster care and into adulthood need various supports to navigate the challenges they face. Recently, federal child welfare policy has significantly increased the availability of these supports. In 1999, the Foster Care…

On November 5, 2014, the Office of Refugee Resettlement hosted a webinar on the ORR-6 Performance Report. The webinar included a review of each section of the ORR-6, highlighting key points and important details, and a question and answer session…

In 2010, 2.7 million children in the United States had a parent in jail or prison. This fact sheet from the Institute for Research on Poverty highlights the various impacts that incarceration of a parent can have on a child. Some of these effects…

This annual progress report from the National Council on Disability provides a glimpse at the current state of people with disabilities in the United States. The 2014 Progress Report details the status of people with disabilities across the nation…

This 2014 memo from ACF provides domestic violence training, resources, and potential opportunities for collaboration between TANF agencies and their partners. Resources include information on TANF’s Family Violence Option, which allows states to…

This study reviews results of a pilot employment program in New York, a part of the Strengthening Families Through Stronger Fathers Initiative. The program provided employment-oriented services, fatherhood/parenting workshops, case management, and…

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Program, a Division of the Family and Youth Services Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families, provides support for domestic violence programs across the nation. It also supports the…

The Center for Law and Social Policy released a report that analyzed 2013 Census data and determined that the national poverty rate fell by half of a percentage point. Authors of the report noted that poverty for children was down by almost two…