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Together Facing the Challenge (TFTC) is a program based out of Duke University in the United States. It is designed to be a low-cost approach to improving treatment within the existing structure & practice of a wide range of treatment foster care (TFC) agencies. The training and consultation approach is used by TFTC to improve the skills of treatment parents and their TFC agency staff. The model focuses specifically on the in-home intervention elements (and creating adequate skill levels to implement these strategies effectively) and on the…
Foster America's mission is to improve the lives of America's most vulnerable children by building a pipeline of leaders and innovators who will help transform the child welfare system. At the heart of Foster America is a fellowship program that attracts talented professionals from a variety of sectors - business, tech, health, and education - and leverages their diverse skills to tackle the child welfare system's most pressing challenges. Foster America fellows take on full-time leadership roles at government and nonprofit child welfare agencies across the country. With…
The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families is a new UCLA campus-wide initiative focused on the needs of children and youth who are disconnected from traditional pathways to success, in particular foster youth. The new center will serve as a collaborative hub for research, prevention and intervention efforts, working to strengthen families to prevent children from entering the child welfare system, and to support those in it. It will aim to build the capacity of foster parents, relative caregivers, and adoptive families to promote stable and nurturing families,…
CHAMPS is a national policy and communications campaign to ensure bright futures for kids in foster care by promoting the highest quality parenting. CHAMPS builds on research that shows that loving, supportive families – whether birth, kin, foster or adoptive – are critical to the healthy development of all children. CHAMPS calls on policy makers to make foster parenting a priority. This requires a new partnership between foster parents and the public agencies responsible for foster care.
Bethany Christian Services is a Christian faith-based organization that works to bring and keep families together through services in many countries. These services include foster care, family support, and adoption. These services have been designed to allow children to stay in their home country, with a local family whenever possible.
Bethany Christian Services has offices in:
- Albania
- …
The purpose of the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute is to increase child welfare practice effectiveness through diverse partnerships that focus on workforce systems development, organizational interventions, and change leadership, using data-driven capacity building, education, and professional development. Their Real Stories project is a multimedia collection of workforce development stories from students, faculty, and child welfare professionals at all levels.…
The Mockingbird Society is an advocacy organization that thinks holistically, creatively, and passionately about meeting society’s obligations to children and youth who need out-of-home care. Their advocacy is rooted in the direct experience and voices of young people who have experienced foster care and youth homelessness.
The Center on the Developing Child’s diverse activities align around building an R&D (research and development) platform for science-based innovation, and transforming the policy and practice landscape that supports and even demands change. The Center promotes this work because society pays a huge price when children do not reach their potential, half a century of policies and programs have not produced breakthrough outcomes, and dramatic advances in science are ready to be used to achieve a promising future for every child. The Center on the…
Pegasus Legal Services for Children is a private, non-profit agency that serves the civil legal needs of New Mexico’s vulnerable children and youth. Pegasus promotes and defends the rights of children and youth to safe and stable homes, quality education and healthcare, and a voice in decisions that affect their lives.
Phone Number: (505) 244-1101
Children’s Harbor keeps together foster brothers and sisters, as well as pregnant or parenting foster teens and their babies, in a safe and loving home. Their Family Strengthening Program sends counselors into homes throughout Broward County, Florida to help prevent the removal of children from the home.