I just found it quite odd that one would choose his method of suicide to be beating himself up with a blunt object with the medical examiner concurring.
He was an executive at Pfzier.
But, hey, what do I know?
I know HHS should be in shambles, due to all the Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Nov. 1 death of Daniel Best, a pharmaceutical executive from Bay Village who led U.S. Department of Health and Human Services efforts to lower prescription drug prices, has been ruled a suicide, officials in Washington, D.C., said Thursday.
Police say Best was found "unresponsive" near the garage door exit of an apartment building in Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard neighborhood at 5:25 a.m. on Nov. 1, and was pronounced dead by medical personnel who responded to the scene.
The city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Thursday said Best died from "multiple blunt force injuries" and it ruled his death a suicide. It would not release further information.
In announcing his death, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the 49-year-old former CVSHealth and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals executive agreed to work at HHS "out of a desire to serve the American people by making health care more affordable."
"He brought his deep expertise and passion to this task with great humility and collegiality," Azar's statement said. "All of us who served with Dan at HHS and in the administration mourn his passing and extend our thoughts and prayers to his wife Lisa and the entire Best family at this difficult time."
Yes, keep in mind that the data are 2 years late, where most state, no, all The States are riddled with the onerous "public" duty to let the public know what the privateers are doing to tiny humans by manipulating data collection and reporting mandates in SACWIS.
I am just a little disappointed Jerry Milner did not throw on any registered trademarks on this public document.
If you notice, the annual numbers are static. This would typically lead on to believe that there is a problem with the socioeconomic policies of the state to see so many children, year after year, in need of protection.
The States are not protecting children; they are protecting their assests.
There are 4 mentions of human trafficking in this report and it only states that there are policies and protocols in place.
Obviously the policies and protocols are not doing to well considering the is no mention of trafficking tiny humans in foster care and adoption.
If these private contractors do not keep the numbers stable of children in need, they will lose their funding and have to shutter their doors.
This report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year 2016.
The Associate Commissioner of the Children's Bureau, the big money area of ACYF that hands out all those lucrative contracts to research think tanks to come up with more creative billing ways to siphon billions more from the Social Security Trust Fund with fraudulent research and paper programs with no feasibility, whatsoever, because the money is being used for real estate ventures and other forms of personal inurement, advises the Commissioner of the Children's Bureau.
It seems the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has adopted, for lack of a better word, predictive analytics in child welfare as its foremost showcase item for the incoming Administration for Children, Youth and Families Commissioner.
But, before we get into the examination of the new Commissioner, first, let us examine, exactly, what predictive analytics in child welfare is:
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS IN CHILD WELFARE: some crap created to make more money by privatized contractors of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation who used to work for child welfare foundations and the same privatized contractors before they went back to DHHS, then leave again to go back to those same private corporate contractors.
If you did not bother to click the link to ASPE, I have taken the time to leave a few snippets of the crap they are promoting: Predictive analytics is increasingly seen as a technology that can improve child welfare outcomes, with a range of possible applications and potential pitfalls. ASPE in 2016 initiated a project to help inform HHS and the child welfare field about how predictive analytics is beginning to be used in in child welfare, what successes and challenges early adopters are encountering, the potential this field has to improve child welfare outcomes, and ways the federal government could facilitate progress. Several products are available from this contract:
Tadawul investment in privatized U.S. child welfare bonds
Make money off "The Poors" by leveraging them as human capital for the best interest of the child, literally.
The children are the chattel and predictive analytics are designed, in the most simplistic way I can present to get people to understand, to be bought and sold on the open markets of complex, private investment schemes.
For a background on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Foundations and other international investors promoting predictive analytical model in child welfare you can the following link, otherwise, skip it and continue reading.
Academics doing predictive analytics in child welfare
In the academic world, way up in the ivory tower of their contained, manufactured reality to keep a job, these people actually believe they can predict the outcome of a kid by plugging the birth into a variable database, click a button, and determine if the kid will end up in prison, so they can invest in the building of more prisons.
Seriously.
These academics, mostly out of California, as the Clinton Foundation is now morphing into the Google Foundation, are looking to come up with some form of mumble jumble in order to apply quantitative investment modeling to the old school form of qualitative eugenics.
Without further adieu, allow me to present to you the man who is going to open to investment doors of privatization to maximize the best interests of the child, the one, the only, Jerry Milner in the spirit of fuchsia.
Jerry Milner
ACYF Commissioner,
Former VP of a former
ACYF contractor
In June, the Trump administration hired Jerry Milner to lead the federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees federal child welfare funding and policy.
The Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) was established in 1977 and oversees the Family and Youth Services Bureau as well as the much larger Children’s Bureau, which was created by President William Howard Taft back in 1912. As acting commissioner of ACYF, Milner oversees a budget of $9.7 billion and a staff of 200, giving him the power to significantly influence national child welfare policy.
Prior to his current role, Milner ran Alabama’s foster care system, and then joined the George W. Bush administration’s Children’s Bureau. There, he helped design the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) process, a periodic review of state child welfare systems conducted by ACYF.
Did you know not one single, solitary state, has met its benchmarks, let alone pass one of these CFSR reviews? Did you know that, when one of these states goes through one of these CFSR reviews and is found to be jacked up in its operations, nothing happens? Wait, the state gets to go through another review, where nothing is found to be improved, which means the state gets a pass until the next review. Did you know the administrators of the Children's Bureau go through the revolving door of heading up the same privately contracted organizations that have successfully proven to have not done a damn thing to improve the well-being of children, but to being an administrator again?
Milner also served as a vice president at a consulting firm called the Center for the Support of Families, where he presided over child welfare practice.
Did you know the Milner's consulting firm, Center for the Support of Families, is also SLI Global Solutions, LLC, a software, procurement firm? I do not know about you, but if I find out that, in any shape or form, that Milner has used his position to shoot over contracts, or benefit from his position, and I am going to be nice and keep it in the area of predictive analytics, I am going to go off, which, anyone in public office should know that I am very, very good at doing.
Among his projects there was a 2016 report, where he and his team found that New Hampshire’s child welfare system was not adequately investigating reports of abuse and neglect in part due to a “seriously overloaded workforce.” These are some of the very issues he will have to grapple with in his new role, but on a much larger scale.
Ok, you know I read the entire report. In a nutshell, this report is nothing but a tempplate pitch for more privatized oversight layers of services that will do absolutely nothing but promote to generation and submission of even more false claims to Medicaid and Title IV-B administrative 75% federal participation rate. This report was crap. There was no mention of any thing remotely close to the lack of civil rights, which, if you do not already know, does not exist in child welfare. Poverty was another one of those elusive terms that was not addressed when looking at the reason why child welfare staff was overworked. Heck, there was no mention of recidivism of staff or the non-existent conditions for whistleblower, a very powerful tool of oversight. But, alas, looking at the inherent conflict of interests in Milner's new position, I see lots of procurement policies favoring private contacts that hire SLI to walk them through the creatively fictitious billing process to make those social impact bond payments. I dare someone tell me I am wrong. I wonder if he disclosed any financial interests with Ethics.
Following up an in person meeting in Washington, D.C. this fall, Milner agreed to provide written responses to a series of follow-up questions. In those responses Milner remarked on a range of issues including maltreatment prevention, federal finance reform and the future of the CFSR process.
When we met, you discussed the five key messages or pillars that you want to work toward during your time at ACFY. What are those?
We are very interested in changing our current system so that it strengthens the resiliency of families as our primary intervention and gives children what they need to thrive.
What children and families need to thrive: stop making people poor for profit.
Right now, we typically respond only after families have lost much of their protective capacity and children have been harmed. We need to strive to create environments where they get the support they need before the harm occurs, which, in my mind, calls for a reconceptualization of the mission and functioning of child welfare systems. Tweaking what we already have in place won’t solve the problems.
How about stop legally kidnapping kids? Poverty is not a crime. Selling kids is called human trafficking.
While certainly not an exhaustive list, there are some priorities that are central in moving toward a system that truly strengthens families.
First, we need to change the focus of child welfare to primary prevention of maltreatment and unnecessary removal of children from their families. We can only break the cycle of family disruption and maltreatment by addressing the root causes of those situations.
How about ditching the moral turpitude stuff and stop making poverty a crime? How about, instead of these multi-million dollar private contracts to design more designs to design another design to upbill, how about putting the social safety net back together?
Second, we should prioritize the importance of families by ensuring that when foster care is necessary, it operates as a support for the family rather than a substitute for the parent. The integrity of the parent-child bond is essential to healthy child development. Whenever it’s possible and safe, the foster care system should support that bond by engaging birth parents to remain a vital part of their children’s care and routines even while in foster care.
I have a question. How come you promote paying someone else to take care of kids instead of paying the parents, whom you snatched the kids in the first place for being poor?
Third, we must focus our interventions on the overall well-being of children and their parents by changing our core practices, especially around removal and placement. We know that removal of a child from a family is traumatic. Trauma is very hard to undo and presents lifelong challenges. We should consciously avoid inflicting psychological and emotional damage to children in our efforts to achieve physical safety. We can help to do that by providing services to help families stay together whenever possible; keeping children in their communities if removal is necessary, ideally within their extended families; protecting the integrity of the parent-child relationship whenever possible; and normalizing their experience in foster care as much as possible.
If you know removal of a child is traumatic, did you ever consider what happens to the parents when this happens? Did you even publish in your report about the drugging of foster kids, the rapes, the beatings, the attempted suicides, the suicides? Bet you did not because your agency has an adversion to the reality of statistics such as this.
Fourth, to be effective in supporting children and families, communities need the strength of a broad base of collaborative efforts among the entities that touch their families’ lives.
That is just a fancy way of saying that people need to deal with a life of perpetual poverty because "collaborative efforts" is just code word for a privatized entity to come into a community and set up shop for more social impact investing. See, even these privatized consultants will pitch how to "maximize revenues" instead of providing services to prevent poverty.
Finally, to achieve better outcomes, we must have a healthy and stable child welfare workforce. This is very difficult work, we need to make sure the workforce is skilled, supported, and committed to making families stronger through preventive interventions and not only when maltreatment has occurred.
How about drug testing and psych testing your workforce. Trust me, anyone who can stay more than a year snatching kids is from a special type of cloth. How about providing the child welfare workforce a vehicle to report fraud, even with a bounty? How about giving these workers some authority to make their own decisions to provide services and resources instead of having to follow the jacked up administrative manuals which have not, to this day, proven to meet the needs of federal, state and local complaince of civil rights? How about stop outsourcing their jobs?
Taken together, I believe these efforts will help reshape our system from one that is reactive and geared toward picking up the pieces after bad things happen to one that is supportive, accessible and provides children and families the services they need to remain healthy and strong.
In regards to primary prevention, what kind of programs and initiatives would you like to see the child welfare system focused on?
We need a range of support services that help to strengthen parents’ protective capacities; for example, parenting education and support, community-based substance abuse prevention and treatment services, ready access to needed medical and mental health services and trauma-informed services to help parents heal from their adverse experiences.
Let me see if I got this one right. You want services to help parents deal with the trauma of being traumatized? Nice billable, dude.
One of the keys to providing services is to ensure that they are flexible and can be tailored to the needs of individual children and families so that we can get at the root causes of the need for child welfare intervention.
The root cause of intervention: poverty, well, I am going to have to throw in sustainability. Gotta keep those paychecks a-flowing. No kids, no jobs.
Our current funding structure does not necessarily support such flexibility and changes are needed in order to build responsive prevention systems.
You just want to show your investors you are creative in optimizing revenue maximization for a profitable return on those social impact investments.
What is the role of systems other than child welfare in the child maltreatment prevention push?
Other systems play a tremendous role in preventing child maltreatment — they are absolutely critical. Prevention requires a vigorous, highly integrated, multi-systemic approach involving all who work with children and families. Prevention cannot be accomplished by the child welfare system alone; the issues children and families are facing are just too complex.
I got another system to prevent child maltreatment! Stop making people poor! Stop making poverty a crime!
The best examples I’ve seen of community-based prevention services have been the result of strong partnerships among child welfare, the courts and a host of other systems, along with a commitment of all stakeholders to community-based services. No single group or organization can be effective alone in creating healthy, thriving communities, but together with a clear vision and strong leadership, it is possible.
The only leadership I can see you promoting is the fact that you have the procurement pen in your hand for a $9.7 billion budget.
Our challenge and opportunities lie in working across systems, be that the medical system, the mental health and substance abuse treatment provider systems, our schools, law enforcement, community organizations and all other stakeholders that come in contact with vulnerable families and providing them the support they need to stay healthy and strong.
Look at you doing that cross spectrum application for procument, and I bet it is for your lil' global initiative.
How would you suggest the child welfare system re-orient its financing structure to allow for primary prevention? What changes do you think would improve the structure of federal child welfare financing?
End privatization. Expand whistleblower protections and opportunities. Make HHS OIG do their job. Get rid of that useless CFSR. Contractually debar, sanction, revoke licensure, prosecute and recover fraud.
Under the current funding system, the bulk of federal funding is available to support the costs associated with foster care. This means most of the funding goes to support children who have been maltreated and removed from their parents. We think that is too late. Research tells us that many removals could likely be prevented if warning signs were detected earlier and effective services provided.
States need the flexibility to use federal funds to help families sooner, before serious danger arises or harm occurs. Access to effective prevention services can help keep families together, and flexibility is the key that will allow communities to respond most effectively to their unique needs.
What are your thoughts on the role of predictive analytics for both child maltreatment prevention and responding to reports of child maltreatment?
If people did not fear CPS, and the child welfare system did not have the "Right To Lie", and the entire system was not secretive, and there was due process, and there were civil rights protections, well, I think you get the picture.
I think we have only begun to understand the potential for analytics to support and inform our work.
Some states are using analytics to assist in safety and risk assessment and in identifying reports that warrant action. Others are using analytics at a higher, community level to understand the associations among various factors and the incidence of child maltreatment.
Having the capacity to share data across agencies and programs is an essential component to the effective use of analytics, and is often perceived as a barrier although it is happening in some jurisdictions.
I believe we should continue to support and develop our capacity to collect and use data in ways that will lead to improved outcomes for children and families.
This is that predictive modeling. The stakeholders of this data-driven crystal ball movement thinks they can predict the future of a kid the same way they can do credit scores. Seriously. I got this administrator out of California who got into an argument with me about this. Little did old dude know that quantitative analysis just so happens to be one of my expertise, of which he had no background in. I was into AI when it was just a green screen. I would pull it up, but this is a long winded rip, and I do not want to lose my witty train of thought.
You mentioned the importance of expanding community-based approaches to child welfare. What do you mean by that and what ideas do you have there?
We need community-based, collaborative services to support healthy and thriving families. This means that improvement efforts are more likely to succeed if they are locally-based and community-driven because that is where families live.
This is particularly important in a prevention environment. Even if foster care is necessary for a child, we know that the opportunities to keep critical relationships intact are greater when children are placed in the communities where they live.
A community-based approach requires a few things. It’s important to understand what life is like for families in their specific communities. What are they struggling with? What resources are available? Are there cultural practices or norms that are unique?
These are all things that are known at the local level and can make a key difference in the effectiveness of interventions. The aim is to become a system to which people turn for help, not seek to avoid.
Well, it looks like the only area for improvement is going to be handing out more privatized contracts.
There’s also good reason to believe that if services were offered in more accessible, less threatening ways, by people and in places that may be familiar, such as through the auspices of a community center or a church, parents may be more likely to seek help on their own and benefit from the supports available to them.
Hey, did you know there are lots of community groups, in the community, that can provide services and resources, if you stop handing out those contracts to your investors which do nothing but put a bunch of fancy words on paper with pretty pictures? If you give direct funding to the communities, something tells me the community will be able to let the community services do stuff like create jobs and spawn economic development. Of course that would mean your social impact bonds would have some issues.
What are the most pressing workforce issues in child welfare, and what would you do to alleviate the secondary trauma and burnout so often associated with the child welfare workforce?
Layers, upon, layers, upon layers, of paperwork, which of course is designed by those privatized CQI orgs that have no clue of what the workers on the frontlines have to endure.
The workforce issues are not new. The inability to recruit staff effectively in some areas of the country, high caseloads, inadequate training, inadequate support for staff, a need for ongoing skill development to improve practice, and stressful work that often inflicts secondary trauma on social workers all contribute to challenges in recruitment, retention and the quality of work with children and families.
You train people to legally kidnap children. How would you feel?
There are many ways to support child welfare staff who are constantly exposed to the traumatic nature of the work. Examples include ensuring that supervision and mentoring recognize and respond when social workers are affected by their experiences, building in-house peer supports for staff, understanding and providing for a healthy work-life balance, and decision-making processes that take life-and-death decisions off the shoulders of a single worker.
As a social worker, I believe that child welfare staff want to do good work and oftentimes know what needs to happen to be effective. Unfortunately, organizational cultures and the lack of supports are often barriers.
Effective and inspirational leadership in child welfare is central to supporting the workforce, through establishing a clear vision, a supportive environment, and an organizational culture that values keeping families together. Behind every successful child welfare program, there are leaders who have vision, know what needs to happen and how to make it happen, and who can inspire and bring together their own staff with other essential stakeholders to shape effective systems for children and families.
There are no successful child welfare programs. Never have, never will if you keep up the same organizational culture that values profits over people.
To what degree are opioids a factor in increasing foster care rates?
Huge.
We are experiencing increases in the number of children in foster care at the same time that there is an increase in the percentage of children entering foster care with a reason related to substance abuse.
However, at the federal level, we cannot make the direct link to opioid use since our data are not specific as to the types of substances being abused. Still, based on the information we hear from states, there is strong reason to believe that opioid abuse is a contributor to some of the increases.
This phenomenon supports the need for greater flexibility in providing prevention services, strong community partnerships, and in data-sharing so that we can both understand and address the problems.
You do not need more data to find the linkage of opiod use and foster care. You already have it!!!!!!! Did you ever think about a collaborative partnership with DOJ to find out where the opioids are coming from to stop it?
We need to be able to reach families further upstream if we are serious about improving outcomes for children and families.
Flexible funding, thoughtfully applied, will allow us to be a proactive rather than reactive system, which is key to preventing maltreatment, and key to strengthening families.
At the same time, we should take care not to impose increased regulation on states’ abilities to make the right decisions for individual children and families and burden them with unnecessary reporting and compliance requirements.
Wow, you did not answer the question. I will take that as a position of opposition for the Family First Prevention Services Act. I have my own position on this Act, but that is not the point of this rant.
The Chronicle’s research shows that there is a serious shortage of foster beds relative to foster kids. Do you think the federal government should be more engaged in tracking and assisting states with recruitment?
In the long run, I don’t think we will solve the problems in foster care by finding more beds for children to sleep in. We need to resolve the problems that lead to the increased need for foster care placement.
Nonetheless, in the immediate, we understand that states are facing shortages of placement options when children are entering foster care, and we are very supportive of the need for an adequate supply of family-based placement resources.
Through the Children’s Bureau’s network of technical assistance providers, we have and will continue to support states’ efforts regarding diligent recruitment of foster and adoptive families, with an emphasis on looking first within the children’s extended families. We are also placing emphasis on increased diligence in engaging fathers and paternal relatives, which may provide an expanded array of kinship care options for children in placement.
You almost had me until you took a sharp right, left the staduim and hit the highway doing 90 miles an hour while the game was still going. How about emphsizing that emphasis on famliy security for continued placement and extended family placement. Again, you can pay a foster parent, why not pay a parent to do the same thing in a time of need, like a time of economic need, oh, like poverty?
Since the Child and Family Services Review [CFSR] process has been in place, not a single state has come into compliance. Do you see this as a product of misguided thresholds, serious state challenges, or perhaps some of both?
First, all states have achieved some degree of conformity with CFSR standards and have been out of conformity in other areas.
You lie.
The CFSR was not envisioned to be a pass-fail review, but rather, a review to help states understand their strengths and weaknesses and to guide continuous quality improvement activities. I believe that some states, however, have come to view it as a compliance process, which is disappointing, and I am also disappointed in not seeing dramatic performance improvements in round three of the CFSR so far.
The CFSR is nothing but a cover up for false claims.
Second, the conformity thresholds for the outcomes and performance indicators in the CFSR are high, as they well should be, given the vulnerable population they are designed to address, so it’s difficult to say the thresholds are misguided.
It is not called "vulnerable population", it is called a targeted population, you know target, attack, then file the cost reimbursements to Medicaid?
I think the problems lie in the program improvement planning process that follows the reviews. On the one hand, the federal government tells states they must make major improvements, many of which require new or expanded services, yet we provide relatively little in the way of funding to support the improvements. That needs to change.
Again, how about shutting down those private contractors?
The CFSR is a valuable tool in helping to raise the bar for outcomes for children and families, and I am committed to looking at ways in which the process can be more effective in leading to greater improvements.
All the CFSR does is prepare a state to find new and improved ways of covering up its failure to monitor its sub-recipients.
Finally, have you had much interaction with President Donald Trump or Health and Human Services leadership regarding their goals for the child welfare system?
Pursuit of the goal of strengthening families through primary prevention, strong and responsive communities, collaborative efforts among those organizations and groups whose work affects outcomes in child welfare, and increasing the well-being of children and families are all entirely consistent with the administration’s goals.
The administration places high value on the importance of families, and we believe this is where we should focus our priorities.
Cannot take them out until you put them in. Looking forward to your resignation. #DOJ #FBI watch him and his investors.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Serevices, Administration for Children & Families, Children's Bureau has put out a "how-to" guide to file a child welfare grievance.
Unfortunately, the guidesheet has omitted filing complaints with elected state representatives such as the state attorney general who is in charge of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, in situations of Medicaid fraud in child welfare.
With the same misfortune, the State Medicaid Fraud Control Units have no authority to address Medicaid Fraud in child welfare due to privacy laws as many, if not the majority of child placing agencies are contractually privatized, as religious non-profits, and everyone know, you cannot audit God.
State elected officials have the duty to provide constituency services, meaning the can navigate the muddled administration to direct the grievance, but cannot intervene in the matter as it is under the jurisdiction of a court, a very fine line which has yet to be addressed.
Remember, one is considered guilty until proven innocent, devoid of opportunity to face one's accuser.
Without analyses of the rest of the States, I will only speak upon my favorite egregious violator of civil rights, Michigan.
In Michigan, the grievances are now dealt with in house, meaning the grievances are investigated by the agencies which have committed the possible violations.
Lest not we forget that the Michigan Office of Children's Ombudsman has a "valid yet not opened" grievance category. This means that there was a violation but the Office will not investigate, nor will it refer to the attorney general, either due to a lack of resources, policy ignorance, or it would jack up the federal consent agreement.
At least this guidance is small baby steps, yet it is a start in admitting there are no civil rights in child welfare.
Welcome to the official kick-off of National Child Abuse Propaganda Month!
For the month of April, organizations across the nation, regardless of political affiliations, come together to promote the continuance of keeping paychecks flowing by promoting propaganda.
There is no such thing as child abuse, but there is such thing as assault and battery, mayhem, torture, etc. Why must harms against children be watered down to create flimsy reasons to take children away from a family.
Poverty is not a crime, but it is considered as grounds to remove a child. This is child abuse propaganda.
Not being able to provide medical resources is considered grounds to remove a child. This is child abuse propaganda.
Generating false data with public dollars to make public policy is not a crime. Neither is there malicious intent when publishing false research to further a compelling government interest. It is just standard operations in the realm of child welfare.
Cornell maintains the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect which, through an exclusion process, will only select research favorable to its funders. Any organization that receives federal grants for research in child welfare must submit its data to Cornell. If the data are not favorable to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children's Bureau, then the data will not be accepted and all future funding to that particular organization will be terminated.
Some examples of data that Cornell and the Children's Bureau will not accept:
Cornell publishes and maintains false and biased research to further the compelling governmental interest of covering up the fact that they do not know what the hell they are doing.
The following organizations are among many that have information on National Child Abuse Prevention Partner Organizations. Inclusion on this list is for information purposes and does not constitute an endorsement by Child Welfare Information Gateway or the Children's Bureau. For the most current information, please refer to the National Organizations section of Child Welfare Information Gateway at http://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/index.cfm.
Recommended updates and additions to the Information Gateway Organization database can be emailed to: OrganizationUpdates@childwelfare.gov
ARCH National Respite Coalition (NRC)
4016 Oxford Street
Annandale, VA 22003
Phone: (703) 256-9578
jbkagan@verizon.net
http://www.archrespite.org
The Mission of the ARCH National Respite Coalition is to secure quality, accessible, planned and crisis respite services for all families and caregivers in need of such services in order to strengthen and stabilize families, and enhance child and adult safety.
The National Respite Coalition (NRC) is the policy arm of the ARCH National Respite Network and it also works with State respite coalitions to build State Lifespan Respite Systems. The Network is a membership organization of respite providers, family members, crisis nurseries, State and local agencies and organizations interested in and supporting respite and crisis servics. The Network maintains the National Respite Locator services at http://www.respitelocator.org and it also provides access to respite start-up manuals, factsheets, evaluation guides and more for both parents and professionals at http://www.archrespite.org.
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
National Headquarters
141 Northwest Point Boulevard
P.O. Box 927
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098
Phone: (202) 347-8600
(847) 434-4000
Fax: (202) 393-6137
(847) 434-8000
kidsdocs@aap.org
http://www.aap.org
General Scope: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is a national, nonprofit membership organization of pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists that produces professional training materials and public education materials on child maltreatment. Its mission is to attain optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
The AAP's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect is concerned with issues relating to the physical, sexual, and mental abuse and neglect of children, adolescents, and their families. The committee develops appropriate policy recommendations and serves as a liaison with other organizations concerned with the health and well-being of children and their families.
Training Specific: The Pediatrics Review and Education Program (PREP The Curriculum®) provides pediatric professionals a way to complete their continuing medical education credits and to study for the Pediatric Maintenance of Certification. For additional information, see http://www.aap.org/profed/prep.htm.
Other training resources include but are not limited to:
* ALPS (Advanced Pediatric Life Support) curriculum presents the information physicians need to assess and care for critically ill and injured children during the first few hours in the emergency department or office-based setting. For more information, see http://www.aplsonline.com/;
* PEPP (Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals) is a curriculum designed specifically to teach prehospital professionals how to better assess and manage ill or injured children. More information is available at http://www.peppsite.com/;
* The Parenting Corner offers tips and training for parents on a variety of issues such as safety and injury prevention, mental health, and child development. For more information, see http://www.aap.org/parents.html.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Committee on Child Abuse & Neglect - http://www.aap.org/visit/cmte8.htm
* Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care - http://www.aap.org/sections/adoption/resources.htm
American Humane Association (AHA)
63 Inverness Drive East
Englewood, CO 80112
Phone: (303) 792-9900
Fax: (303) 792-5333
info@americanhumane.org
http://www.americanhumane.org
The mission of the American Humane Association (AHA) is to prevent cruelty, abuse, neglect, and the exploitation of children and animals.
AHA offers education and resources to professionals, conducts conferences, roundtables and training, and provides consultation and technical assistance to State and county child welfare and community agencies. In addition, AHA conducts research and evaluation, disseminates knowledge on child welfare, and advocates for social service systems that promote the best interest of children, youth, and families. AHA also offers membership subscriptions.
AHA promotes collaboration across systems, including its recent focus on the juvenile justice system and the restorative justice approach for youth justice. AHA is also known for its work on the human-animal bond which inlcudes programs that strengthen families and their connection to animals. AHA is actively involved in child welfare legislation and public policy at both the State and Federal levels.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* National Center on Family Group Decision Making - http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pc_fgdm
* National Child Protection Research Center - http://www.americanhumane.org/researchcenter
* Quality Improvement Center on Non-Residential Fathers & the Child Welfare System - http://www.americanhumane.org/fathers
* Breakthrough Series Collaborative on Safety & Risk Assessments - http://www.americanhumane.org/bsc
* Therapy Animals Supporting Kids (TASK)™ Program - http://www.americanhumane.org/human-animal-bond/programs/therapy-animals-supporting-kids/
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC)
350 Poplar Avenue
CHO 3B-3406
Elmhurst, IL 60126
Phone: (630) 941-1235
Fax: (630) 359-4274
Toll-Free: (877) 402-7722
apsac@apsac.org
http://www.apsac.org
General Scope:The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) addresses all facets of the professional response to child maltreatment: prevention, assessment, intervention, and treatment.
APSAC is committed to:
* Preventing and eliminating the recurrence of child maltreatment;
* Promoting research and guidelines to inform professional practice;
* Connecting professionals from the many disciplines to promote the best response to child maltreatment; and
* Educating the public about child abuse and neglect.
Training Specific: APSAC's Advanced Training Institutes offer in-depth training on selected topics. taught by nationally recognized leaders in the field of child maltreatment. For more information on the Institutes, see http://www.apsac.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=54086&orgId=apsac.
Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 547-6600
Fax: (410) 547-6624
http://www.aecf.org
The Annie E. Casey Foundation works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Family to Family - http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/Family%20to%20Family.aspx
* Casey Family Services - http://www.aecf.org/ChildFamilyServices/CaseyFamilyServices.aspx
* Casey Journalism Center - http://www.journalismcenter.org/index.cfm
Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)
1575 Eye Street NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 371-1565
Fax: (202) 371-1472
http://www.cssp.org/index.html
The mission of the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is to develop and promote public policies and practices that support and strengthen families and help communities produce equal opportunities and better futures for children.
The Center coordinates the national Strengthening Families initiative which is being implemented in over half of all States. Strengthening Families engages early childhood programs and other unusual partners in preventing child abuse and neglect by building five, research-based, Protective Factors that are shown to be correlated with reduced incidence of child abuse and neglect. The Strengthening Families National Network provides tools, peer support, technical assistance, and other resources for States implementing Strengthening Families. For more information about this initiative, please see http://www.strengtheningfamilies.net.
Chapin Hall Center for Children
1313 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 753-5900
Fax: (773) 753-5940
webmaster@chapinhall.org
http://www.chapinhall.org/
Chapin Hall is a research and development center focusing on policies, practices, and programs affecting children and the families and communities in which they live. The Center devotes special attention to children facing significant problems such as abuse or neglect, poverty, and mental or physical illnesses, and to the service systems designed to address these problems.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children's Bureau/ACYF
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW -- Eighth Floor
Washington, DC 20024
Phone: (703) 385-7565
Fax: (703) 385-3206
Toll-Free: (800) 394-3366
info@childwelfare.gov
http://www.childwelfare.gov
Child Welfare Information Gateway connects professionals and the general public to information and resources targeted to the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to programs, research, laws and policies, training resources, statistics, and much more.
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
Headquarters
2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 250
Third Floor
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone: (703) 412-2400
Fax: (703) 412-2401
http://www.cwla.org/
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the oldest national organization serving vulnerable children, youth, and their families. CWLA provides training, consultation, and technical assistance to child welfare professionals and agencies while also educating the public on emerging issues that affect abused, neglected, and at-risk children. Through its publications, conferences, and teleconferences, CWLA shares information on emerging trends, specific topics in child welfare practice (family foster care, kinship care, adoption, positive youth development), and Federal and State policies.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* NDAS (National Data Analysis System) - http://ndas.cwla.org
* NRC for Child Welfare Data and Technology - http://www.nrccwdt.org/
* Child Welfare Standards of Excellence - http://www.cwla.org/programs/standards/default.htm
Childhelp®
15757 North 78th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Phone: (480) 922-8212
Fax: (480) 922-7061
TDD: (800) 2AC-HILD
Toll-Free: (800) 4AC-HILD
http://www.childhelp.org/
Childhelp® is dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. Childhelp’s approach focuses on prevention, intervention and treatment. The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD®, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services; children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes; child abuse prevention, education and training; and the National Day of Hope®, part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month every April.
Circle of Parents
500 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 334-6837
Fax: (312) 334-6852
dwalker@circleofparents.org
http://www.circleofparents.org
The mission of the Circle of Parents is to prevent child abuse and neglect and to strengthen families through friendly, supportive, mutual self-help parent support groups and children’s programs.
Currently the Circle of Parents national network represents a partnership of parent leaders and 26 statewide organizations in 25 States and Puerto Rico. The organization was formed after a successful collaborative project of Prevent Child Abuse America and the National Family Support Roundtable, which was made possible by the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Circle of Parents website provides links to information about the program model, its state network member organizations, training and technical assistance to its membership, parenting resources, and more.
Cooperative Extension System
USDA, Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES)
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20250-2225
Phone: (202) 720-4795
http://www.extension.org/
The Cooperative Extension System is a nationwide educational collaboration of Federal, State, and local governments and State land-grant universities. The mission of the Cooperative Extension System is to disseminate research-based information on topics as varied as family and child development, health, nutrition, agriculture, horticulture, small business and personal finance. Each State Extension serves its residents through a network of local or regional offices staffed by educators in their field.
The Coopertive Extension System’s new eXtension (e-extension) Initiative provides a web-based interactive learning environment linking users to resources of the Cooperative Extension System to support a variety of educational outreach efforts including resources to promote healthy families.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Parenting - http://www.extension.org/parenting
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF)
650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 974-7000
Fax: (212) 974-7590
http://www.ddcf.org/
The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Child Abuse Prevention Program is to protect children from abuse and neglect in order to promote their healthy development.
The program awards grants to organizations to improve parent-child interactions and to increase parents’ access to information and services that help prevent child maltreatment before it occurs.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Early Intervention - http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=342
The foundation supports early intervention initiatives that seek to integrate child abuse prevention strategies into national systems that serve large numbers of young children (ages 0 to 6) and their families on a regular basis. The foundation currently awards grants focused on the following service systems: Home Visiting Programs Early Education and Child Care Pediatric Health Care Special Populations
National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds (ACT)
5712 30th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 526-1221
Fax: (206) 526-0220
info@ctfalliance.org
http://www.ctfalliance.org
The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds (ACT) initiates and engages in national efforts that assist state Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds in strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect. This includes promoting and supporting a system of services, laws, practices, and attitudes that supports families by enabling them to provide their children with a safe, healthy, and nurturing childhood.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
1509 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 232-8777
Fax: (202) 328-1846
Toll-Free: (800) 424-2460
naeyc@naeyc.org
http://www.naeyc.org/
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation's largest organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade.
National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI)
401 Wythe Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 684-1355
Fax: (703) 684-1589
mbrsvcs@nachri.org
http://www.childrenshospitals.net/
The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) promotes the health and well-being of children and their families through support of children's hospitals and health systems. Through the Association, NACHRI members work to ensure children's access to healthcare and the ability of children's hospitals to provide the services children need.
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
215 West 125th Street 3rd Floor
154 Haven Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (646) 284-9600
Fax: (646) 284-9623
info@nccp.org
http://www.nccp.org/
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America's low income families and children. Using research to inform policy and practice, NCCP seeks to advance family-oriented solutions and the strategic use of public resources at the State and national levels to ensure positive outcomes for the next generation.
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome (NCSBS)
2955 Harrison Boulevard, #102
Ogden, UT 84403
Phone: (801) 627-3399
Fax: (801) 627-3321
mail@dontshake.org
http://www.dontshake.org/
General Scope: The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome (NCSBS) offers information on shaken baby syndrome, shaken baby syndrome prevention programs, and training for professionals and parents nationwide.
Training Specific: The Online Training Center contains three training modules: the Period of PURPLE Crying® program overview, Basic Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS/AHT) education, and Intermediate Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS/AHT) education. For more information on these training modules, please see http://www.dontshake.org/lms/index.php<\a>.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Period of PURPLE Crying Program - http://www.dontshake.org/sbs.php?topNavID=4&subNavID=32
National Children's Alliance (NCA)
516 C Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 548-0090
Fax: (202) 548-0099
Toll-Free: (800)239-9950
http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/
General Scope: The National Children's Alliance is a nonprofit membership organization that provides training, technical assistance, and networking opportunities to communities seeking to plan, establish, and improve Children's Advocacy Centers. These Centers further the goal of serving abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for victims and their families.
Training Specific: A wide range of training opportunities can be found in the Comprehensive Training Catalogue For Children's Advocacy Centers. The pdf version of the Catalogue is available for download. For more information about training resources, see http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/index.php?s=54.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Accreditation Information - http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/accreditationquestions
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (National CASA)
100 West Harrison Street
North Tower, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98119
Phone: (206) 270-0072
Fax: (206) 270-0078
Toll-Free: (800) 628-3233
inquiry@nationalcasa.org
http://www.CASAforChildren.org
General Scope: The National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (National CASA), and a network of over 1,000 local community program offices, support volunteers serving children. The mission of the National CASA, together with its State and local members, is to support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so that they can thrive in safe, permanent homes. The role of local CASA programs is to recruit, train and support volunteers in their work with abused children.
Training Specific: National CASA creates new, research-based training opportunities, such as its new e-learning series on educational advocacy, and continuously improves its core volunteer training curriculum.
National Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Services
3050 Central Avenue
Toledo, OH 43606
Phone: (419) 535-3232
Fax: (419) 535-1989
Toll-Free: (800) 924-2643
info@preventchildabuse.com
http://www.preventchildabuse.com
The National Exchange Club Foundation (NECF) focuses on improving the lives of children and families through the prevention of child abuse. The NECF coordinates a nationwide network of community-based Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Centers that offer a professionally supervised parent aide program to at-risk parents, with the goal of replacing traditional patterns of abusive behavior with effective skills for nonviolent parenting.
National Family Preservation Network (NFPN)
3971 North 1400 East
Buhl, ID 83316
Fax: (208) 543-6080
Toll-Free: (888) 498-9047
director@nfpn.org
http://www.nfpn.org/
General Scope: The mission of the National Family Preservation Network (NFPN) is to serve as a primary national voice for the preservation of families through Intensive Family Preservation and Reunification Services (IFPS & IFRS).
Training Resources: NFPN provides links to various assessment tools, fatherhood resources, and more at http://www.nfpn.org/tools-and-training.html.
National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC)
1620 Eye Street NW, Suite 210
Washington, DC 20006
Fax: (703) 385-3206
Toll-Free: (866) 916-4672
nhmrc@healthymarriageinfo.org
http://www.healthymarriageinfo.org
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC) is a national resource and clearinghouse for information and research relating to healthy marriages.
The mission of the NHMRC is to help individuals and couples who choose marriage for themselves gain the knowledge and skills necessary to build and sustain a healthy marriage.
The NHMRC is administered under a cooperative agreement with the Office of Family Assistance within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
5100 SW Macadam Avenue
Suite 300
Portland, OR 97239
Phone: (503) 222-4044
Fax: (503) 222-4007
info@nicwa.org
http://www.nicwa.org
The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) functions as the only Native American organization focused specifically on issues of child abuse and neglect and tribal capacity to prevent and respond effectively to these problems. NICWA provide workshops and training programs, using culturally appropriate NICWA developed resources, including training materials, curricula, and books. NICWA also offers technical assistance and training on child care, family preservation, and substance abuse.
Training Specific: NICWA had developed a Tribal Child Welfare Worker Certification that will serve as an aid for the continual development of Indian child welfare workers to better serve our tribal children and families. For more information, please see http://www.nicwa.org/certification/.
NICWA has developed trainings on a variety of topics related to American Indian child welfare that are available via on-site training, training institutes, or ICWA online training courses. For more information, please see http://www.nicwa.org/training/.
National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) (FRIENDS)
Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project
800 Eastowne Drive, Suite 105
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Phone: (919) 490-5577, x 222
Fax: (919) 490-4905
lbaker3@nc.rr.com
http://www.friendsnrc.org
FRIENDS (Family Resource, Information, Education and Network Development Services) provides technical assistance to Federal grantee agencies implementing the Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, under the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003.
FRIENDS works to build the capacity of States and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect and strengthen and support families.
The National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) (FRIENDS) is a service of the Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect.
National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC)
101 Lake Forest Boulevard
Suite 360
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Toll-Free: (877) 432-3411
info@fatherhood.gov
http://www.fatherhood.gov/
The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) supports the Administration for Children and Families' Office of Family Assistance's (OFA) efforts to assist States and communities to promote and support Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage.
Primarily a tool for professionals operating Responsible Fatherhood programs, the NRFC provides access to print and electronic publications, timely information on fatherhood issues, and targeted resources that support OFA-funded Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage grantees. The NRFC website also provides essential information for other audiences interested in fatherhood issues.
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)
1900 Grant Street
Suite 400
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: (303) 327-4240
Fax: (303) 327-4260
Toll-Free: (866) 864-5226
info@nursefamilypartnership.org
http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/
The Nurse-Family Partnership represents an approach to the long-established service strategy of the home visiting model that improves the health and social functioning of low income, first-time mothers, their babies, and families.
The NFP is affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the National Center for Children, Families and Communities (NCCFC) in the School of Nursing.
Parents Anonymous, Inc.
675 West Foothill Boulevard
Suite 220
Claremont, CA 91711-3475
Phone: (909) 621-6184
Fax: (909) 625-6304
Parentsanonymous@parentsanonymous.org
http://www.parentsanonymous.org
Parents Anonymous helps parents provide nurturing environments for their families. The organization is dedicated to strengthening families through strategies that promote mutual support and parental leadership. For State and local contacts, visit the Parents Anonymous website.
Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA)
500 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 663-3520
Fax: (312) 939-8962
mailbox@preventchildabuse.org
http://www.preventchildabuse.org/
Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) is committed to promoting legislation, policies, and programs that help prevent child abuse and neglect, support healthy childhood development, and strengthen families. Working with State chapters, PCCA provides leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at the national and local levels.
PCAA's research arm is the National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research (http://www.preventchildabuse.org/learn_more/research.html). The Center provides a link between research and practice by developing and evaluating prevention strategies, and by disseminating information about child abuse maltreatment and its prevention across the country.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research - http://www.preventchildabuse.org/learn_more/research.html
The National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research enhances the link between research and practice by developing and evaluating prevention strategies, and by disseminating information about child abuse maltreatment and its prevention cross the country.
* Healthy Families America - http://www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org/
* Credentialing (Healthy Families America Programs) - http://www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org/network_resources/credentialing.shtml
Search Institute
The Banks Building
615 First Avenue NW -- Suite 125
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Phone: (612) 376-8955
Toll-Free: (800) 888-7828
si@search-institute.org
http://www.search-institute.org
Search Institute conducts research to identify what children and adolescents need to become caring, healthy, and responsible adults. The Institute also provides resources to apply this knowledge and to motivate and equip others in ensuring young people are valued and that they thrive.
ZERO TO THREE
National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
2000 M Street NW, Suite 200
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 638-1144
Toll-Free: (800) 899-4301
http://www.zerotothree.org
Zero to Three's mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf. Zero to Three is dedicated to advancing current knowledge, promoting beneficial policies and practices, communicating research and best practices to a wide variety of audiences, and providing training, technical assistance, and leadership development.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Children's Bureau Department of Health and Human Services Logo Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children's Bureau/ACYF
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW
Eighth Floor
Washington, DC 20024
800.394.3366
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
