This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resource provides evidence-based strategies and tools to help prevent child abuse and neglect, including the Prevention Resource for Action. The resource highlights practical approaches that strengthen families, reduce risk factors, and promote safe, stable environments for children.

For TANF programs, these strategies align with efforts to support families through economic assistance and work-focused services that help reduce stressors impacting caregiving. Programs can use this resource to inform service delivery, strengthen coordination with public health, child welfare, and community partners, and reinforce approaches that support family stability and continuity.

This guide from the Child Welfare Information Gateway provides a protective factors framework along with practical strategies for strengthening families. TANF programs can use this resource to design prevention-focused services that build on family strengths while coordinating with child welfare and behavioral health partners. By integrating protective factors into program design, TANF agencies can support resilience, reduce risk, and promote long-term family stability.

This resource from the Children’s Safety Network highlights data, strategies, and cross-sector approaches to preventing child abuse and neglect. It offers practical insight into how coordinated efforts across systems can better support families and reduce risk factors early.

TANF programs can use this guide to strengthen prevention-focused services by aligning with child welfare, public health, and community partners. By using data and evidence-informed strategies, programs can improve coordination, target supports more effectively, and reinforce stable, family-based environments.

A resource from the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network highlights how agencies are prioritizing placement with relatives or trusted caregivers when children cannot remain with their parents. These approaches help maintain family connections, reduce disruptions, and support more stable caregiving arrangements.

TANF programs can support this work by reinforcing care in the home or with relatives, including efforts that help stabilize caregiving arrangements, reduce placement changes, and support caregivers in meeting the day-to-day needs of children. This may also include coordinating with partner systems and aligning services to strengthen family-based care and promote continuity.

New federal efforts like A Home for Every Child, updated CFSRs, and emerging performance dashboards signal a shift in direction that raises new questions about how systems can better support children, families, and the workforce. At the center of the conversation is a shared goal: helping every child grow up in a safe, stable home. The American Public Human Services Association will host a webinar on April 9, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. ET to discuss what this evolving landscape means in practice.

This Institute for Family Studies report examines the challenges many parents face in balancing economic pressures, caregiving responsibilities, and overall well-being. Findings highlight how financial stress, limited supports, and caregiving demands can affect family stability and long-term outcomes. For TANF programs, the report reinforces the importance of two-generation strategies that address both parental needs and child well-being, ensuring that supports such as child care, employment services, and mental health resources are aligned to strengthen the entire family unit.

This Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network resource highlights how collocating social services directly within community settings can reduce barriers to access and improve engagement among families. By embedding supports where families already live or receive services, programs can increase participation and streamline referrals across systems. For TANF programs, onsite service models offer a practical strategy to strengthen coordination with workforce and human services partners, helping families more easily access the full range of supports needed for employment and stability.

This program profile from the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network highlights how Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest supports kinship caregivers through navigation services, resource connections, and community-based supports. The model demonstrates how coordinated services can help stabilize kinship placements and improve outcomes for children and caregivers. TANF programs can draw lessons from this approach to strengthen partnerships and better support relatives caring for children outside the traditional foster care system.

Generations United will host a webinar on March 26, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. ET to highlight lessons from communities that have developed shared intergenerational sites where programs serving children and older adults operate together. The session will explore how these models strengthen community connections, support caregivers, and create meaningful engagement opportunities across generations.

A new brief from Child Trends examines how partnerships between public agencies and private organizations can help identify and support kinship placements for children in foster care. The report highlights strategies that strengthen collaboration and expand support for relatives caring for children. TANF programs may find these insights useful when working with community partners to support kin caregivers, improve service coordination, and promote family stability.