Other
Resources and References
Administration for Children and Families
Administration
for Children and Familes: Children's Bureau
Child
Welfare League of America
Collaboration
Counts Conference Presentation
National
Resource Center for Information Technology in Child Welfare
Oklahoma
Division of Child and Family Services
University
of Kansas School of Social Welfares
Links from the Training Modules (in alphabetical
order)
ASFA:
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (original act)
ASFA:
The Adoption and Safe Families Act o f 1997 (summary)
CFSR:
Child and Family Service Reviews Information Package. ( National Child Welfare
Resource Center for Organizational Improvement, University of Southern Maine,
Revised February 2001)
CFSR:
Child and Family Services Reviews Procedures Manual. (DHHS Administration
for Children, Youth and Families, August 2000)
CFSR:
The Child Welfare Review Project is a web site that provides some resources,
including review instruments and instructions and information on peer reviewers,
that have been developed by the Children's Bureau to assist States in meeting
these requirements
CFSR:
National Standards for the Child and Family Service (CFS) Reviews: Six Statewide
Data Indicators. (DHHS Administration for Children, Youth and Families, December
28, 2000.)
CFSR:
Onsite Review Process. This is discussed in more detail in the DHHS Child
and Family Services Reviews Procedures Manual
CRSR:
Tentative State Schedule. Beginning in March 2001, the Federal government
will conduct Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) state by state. Children's
Bureau website.
CFSR:
Title IV -E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews and Child and Family Services
State Plan Reviews; Final Rule
CFSR:
Yearly Report to Congress' Set of Outcomes and their Indicators. August 20,
1999 Federal Register: Notice of Final List of Child Welfare Outcomes and
Measures
The
Child Welfare Final Rule: Executive Summary. (DHHS Administration for Children,
Youth and Families, Updated January 17, 2001)
Child Welfare Final Rule: Questions and Answers. (DHHS
Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Updated December 6, 2000.)
MEPA:
Growing Latino Population Spurs Efforts to Recruit Latino Foster and Adoptive
Families. (Children's Bureau Express, National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse
and Neglect Information, May, 2001
MEPA:
A Guide to The Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 As Amended by the Interethnic
Adoption Provisions of 1996. ( By Professor Joan Heifetz Hollinger and The
American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, National Resource
Center on Legal and Court Issues)
MEPA:
Implementing MEPA. A 1997 memo from DHHS discussed implementation of MEPA-IEP
MEPA:
Policy Guidance on the Use of Race, Color or National Origin as Considerations
in Adoption and Foster Care Placements. (Office for Civil Rights & Administration
for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1995)
MEPA:
Questions and Answers Regarding the Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 and
Section 1808 of the Small Business and Job Protection Act of 1996. (Office
for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1997)
MEPA:
Taking Race Out of the Equation: Transracial Adoption in 2000. (Suzanne Brannen
Campbell, Southern Methodist University Law Review, Fall 2000)
