The North American Resource Center for Child Welfare (NARCCW) is an umbrella organization for agencies working to achieve best practice in child welfare. NARCCW houses four collaborative agencies which include: The Institute for Human Services, Center for Child Welfare Policy, Family Trust Clinic and TRAINet.

NARCCW Mission

To provide children, who have been or are at risk of being, physically abused, neglected, or sexually abused, with safe, permanent, and nurturing families in which to develop to their potential. A safe, permanent family may include the child's biological parents, members of the child's extended family, the child's foster family, or an adoptive family, in a relationship that is legally and psychologically intended to be permanent. The child welfare agency, in collaboration with members of the child's immediate family, extended family, and other resources and service providers in the community, will work to stabilize, educate, empower, and support families in a manner that promotes safety and permanence for children.

NARCCW Values

All children have an absolute right to a safe, permanent, stable home, which provides basic levels of nurturance and care, and is free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. This general child welfare value is the overriding moral end targeted by all aspects of the child welfare field of practice. It is a derivational incorporation of the fundamental values of the social work profession: freedom, justice, human dignity, and social responsibility. Read More

NARCCW Guiding Principles

The primary goals of all child welfare activities are to protect children from physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, or exploitation, and to provide them with safe, nurturing, permanent families. Read More

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