Administration for Children and Families

This webpage shares resources to help educators and school staff prevent, identify, and assist victims of child abuse and neglect. Learn more. 

This brief describes strategies for redesigning the child welfare service array to meet the needs of young people currently and formerly in foster care. The resource focuses on topics such as housing, healthcare and mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and education. The brief includes a worksheet for practitioners to ...

This tool offers resources to help young people better understand the different aspects of youth engagement and empowerment to advocate for themselves and their goals more effectively within the child welfare system. The strategies offered throughout this resource are informed by lived experience experts. Learn more.  ...

This hotline provides free, 24/7 support for people experiencing or witnessing domestic violence and for abusive partners trying to change themselves. This resource also provides information on how to identify abuse, how to create a plan for safety, and how to help others if you are a concerned friend or ...

This webpage contains materials from OPRE’s “Self-Regulation and Toxic Stress” series. This series communicates the potential of a self-regulation framework for strengthening prevention programs and human services. The webpage features reports, briefs, infographics, tip sheets, and additional resources. Learn more.  ...

This starter kit (PDF, 10 pages) seeks to help child support agencies, grant recipients, and other stakeholders:  Identify and recruit individuals with lived experience  Determine equitable compensation for people with lived experience  Engage respectfully and effectively with people with lived experience  Learn more.  ...

This fact sheet (PDF, 8 pages) provides caseworkers with an overview of current and historical issues affecting child welfare practice with American Indian and Alaska Native families, practice implications, and cultural considerations. Learn more. 

This brief (PDF, 14 pages) helps collaborative teams (e.g., child welfare, public health, courts, substance use disorder (SUD) and mental disorder treatment staff, other community partners) formally assess existing policies to determine whether, and to what extent, they contribute to disproportionate and disparate outcomes for the families being served. Learn ...

This animated video offers those who work with, coach, teach, or care for adolescents a brief introduction to co-regulation support rooted in evidence-informed strategies to foster self-regulation in youth. From their middle school years through young adulthood, youth need trusted adults to help them build self-regulation. Learn more and watch. ...

This report examines how poverty passes from one generation to another, identifies potential policies and programs to reduce it, and makes recommendations to address gaps in data and research. Learn more.