Resources and tools for county child welfare agencies in New York State to implement the federal Family First Prevention Services Act law.

Use this workbook to customize the slideshow template for your own county. Use this workbook together with the tutorial video and the slideshow template.

Use this tutorial video to customize the workbook and slideshow template for your own county.

In this video, Jim Czarniak walks staff of New York counties through the use of a customizable workbook and slideshow to help defend their child welfare jurisdiction budget against cuts. This workshop is to be used with the corresponding workbook and slideshow.

This document shares Rockland County's journey toward Family First Readiness and identifies specific steps the county took to reform their system to achieve better outcomes for children and families.

This resource provides an overview of best practices in community crisis response, crisis response training for foster and kinship families and family support models with embedded crisis response. Specific program models for each type of support are provided.

This easy-to-read desktop guide for child welfare staff and families, presents links to COVID-19-related federal and state policies and regulations; resources for staff, kinship and foster families, and youth; information on family court; and guidance on PPE, among other topics.

This presentation provides different strategies that jurisdictions can use to effectively serve teens in the foster care sytem, including those who are involved in the juvenile justice system or a Persons In Need of Supervision case.

This worksheet accompanies the presentation Effective Strategies to Strengthen Safety Planning, 1017s and Kinship Foster Care and enables a jurisdiction to analyze its use of these three placement types.

This presentation presents strategies that jurisdictions can employ to enhance their use of safety plans, 1017 placements and kinship foster care.

This presentation accompanies the Assessing Prevention Services Array tool and worksheet and provides an overview of how a jurisdiction can identify its prevention services needs and build a comprehensive array of prevention services.