The Practice Toolkit will be distributed three times a year and will include articles, resources, tools, links and surveys. We hope that you will use it and will also give us your feedback through the surveys.

Volume One, Edition One - December 2, 2011

The first edition of the TWC Practice Toolkit includes articles on:

• Structured Decision Making
• Meaningful Family Engagement: Considerations for Moving Beyond "Getting a Parent"
• Engaging Non-Custodial Fathers in Child Welfare
• Child Abuse or Mimic? A Tool for Pediatricians' Clinical Use
• Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families

It also includes new resources:

• Love and Belonging for a Lifetime: Youth Permanency in Child Welfare
• Family Engagement: A Web-based Toolkit
• Experts Design Toolkit to Help Spot Teens with Mental Health Issues
• America's Children: Key Indicators of Well-Being
• Building Child Welfare Response to Child Trafficking
• New & Improved AdoptUSKids Website
• New Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire Released - The National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence
• Free Father-Friendly Organizational Check-up
• Family Engagement in Child Welfare Video Series
• OJJDP Launches DMC Virtual Resource Center
• LINKS AND MORE!

http://www.easyemerge.com/preview-41324-77de9b03.html 

Children's Legal Advocacy Resources Online (CLARO)

Recent Additions:

• TWC Practice Toolkit
• Models for Change
• Call for Abstracts – The Intersection of Immigration, Child Welfare, and Criminal Justice Systems
•  Participants Sought for Survey on Mentoring Services for High-Risk Youth
• Registration Links for Webinars and Conferences
• The Adolescent Brain - New Research
• Suicide and Bullying Among Children and Adolescents, With Special Attention to LGBTQ Youth
• Making Your Voice Heard: A Family Advocacy Handbook for Parents and Other Concerned People with Children in Custody in the Juvenile Justice System

www.clarola.org