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A Toolkit for Working With Children of Incarcerated Parents
Created jointly by the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) within the State of Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), Health and Recovery Services Administration and DSHS' Office of Planning, Performance and Accountability, and featured on the Children's Bureau website, this web-based training toolkit provides practitioners with the skills required to respond to the needs of children of parents who are in prison or have an incarceration history.
National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues provides consultation, training, and technical assistance on all legal and judicial aspects of the child welfare system, including federal law, court improvement, agency and court collaboration, permanency planning, legal representation, and other emerging child welfare issues. The Resource Center, funded by the Children’s Bureau, is comprised of the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, the National Center for State Courts, and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections
The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections at the Hunter College School of Social Work is a training, technical assistance, and information services organization dedicated to help strengthen the capacity of State, local, Tribal and other publicly administered or supported child welfare agencies in order to: institutionalize a safety-focused, family-centered, and community-based approach to meet the needs of children, youth and families. NRCPFC is a service of the Children's Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The NRCPFC is committed to providing T/TA & Information Services that are:
- Proactive
- Integrated
- Culturally Competent
- Collaborative
- Individualized
- Strength-based
- Family-centered practice
- Community-based practice
- Evidence-Based & Evidence-informed
The Adoption and Safe Families Act: Barriers to Reunification between Children and Incarcerated Parents
This information packet, developed by the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections and featured on the Children's Bureau website, addresses how certain provisions of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) create barriers to reunification for incarcerated mothers. The packet also includes information about amendments that some states have made to ASFA to address these issues, best practice tips for working with children of incarcerated parents, and other related resources
When a Parent Is Incarcerated
Developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and featured on the Children's Bureau's website, this guide provides information to public child welfare agencies and caseworkers on working with incarcerated parents and their children. Goals of the primer include familiarizing child welfare professionals with the impact of incarceration and providing information to child welfare and correctional systems to help improve permanency outcomes for children.
Report: Multi-Site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering: Program Impacts Technical Report
This report presents findings on the impact of family strengthening services in four prison-based programs from the Multi-Site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering and discusses the implications for policy, programs, and future research.
Supporting Families Impacted by Incarceration — A Dialogue with Experts
This report, developed by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Technical Assistance and Strategic Dissemination Center, is the outcome of a meeting that convened national child welfare experts on families impacted by incarceration. It features key issues around this topic for practitioners and identifies needed resources and tools to support the workforce and families, along with a practical framework of intervention points from arrest to release.
Expanding K–12 Financial Education
Working to advance or implement youth financial education? Our updated Resource Guide connects you to information, insights, and best practices about what works in advancing K-12 financial education.
Personal Finance Teaching Tool
Identify teaching techniques and learning strategies to address the three building blocks that influence the development of lifelong personal finance decision-making skills.
Curriculum Review Tool
Our Curriculum Review Tool helps you review and compare financial education curricula across four key dimensions, so you can select the most promising ones for your classroom.
How Kids Develop Money Skills
Most people get their money habits and skills from their parents and caregivers. (Probably you did too!) That’s why we think it’s important to give parents and caregivers some background in how children develop, financially.
Youth Financial Education: Developing Executive Function
Basic skills and attitudes form early and lay the foundation for later financial well-being. When children are ages 3 to 5, help them learn to stay focused, make plans, follow directions, complete tasks, and solve problems.
Youth Financial Education: Executive Function Activities
This page provides information and resources to help parents and caregivers teach young children the basic skills needed for a bright financial future.
Youth Financial Education: Building Money Habits and Values
Kids in middle childhood begin to absorb and interact with the financial world around them. When children are ages 6 to 12, help them with rules of thumb and day-to-day habits that shape how they earn, save, and shop.
Youth Financial Education: Money Habits and Values Activities
This resource shares what parents and caregivers can do to help their children develop positive financial attitudes, habits, and shortcuts during middle childhood. It provides suggestions for activities to do with children as well as where to find additional information.
Youth Financial Education: Practicing Money Skills and Decision-making
Making their own financial decisions starts to set teens and young adults apart. When children are ages 13 to 21, you can give them chances to make money choices, experience natural consequences, and reflect on their decisions.
Youth Financial Education: Practicing money skills and decision-making
Making their own financial decisions starts to set teens and young adults apart. When children are ages 13 to 21, you can give them chances to make money choices, experience natural consequences, and reflect on their decisions.
Money As You Grow Book Shelf
You can use the Money as You Grow book club list for children ages 4 to 10 and get started reading together. Then, talk about money skills like planning for the future, setting goals, and sticking to them.
Money As You Grow: Facilitator's Guide
Booklet for facilitators who are implementing Money as You Grow Book Club.
Parent Guide: A Bargain for Frances
Booklet to accompany the book A Bargain for Frances, helping parents read and discuss money topics with their children.
Parent Guide: A Chair for Mother
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “A Chair for my Mother” by Vera Williams.
Parent Guide: Alexander Who Used to Be Rich on Monday
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday” by Judith Viorst.
Parent Guide: Count on Pablo
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Count on Pablo” by Barbara deRubertis.
Parent Guide: Curious George Saves His Pennies
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Curious George Saves His Pennies” by Margaret and H.A. Rey.
Parent Guide: Just Shopping with Mom
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Just Shopping with Mom” by Mercer Mayer.