Books & Monographs

The Field Guide to Child Welfare is now available in searchable format online. Learn More. Forrester Family Video Script (Adobe PDF, 338KB) Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child:  Making Sense of the Past (Purchase on Amazon.com) Wounded Children, Healing Homes:  How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families (Purchase on Amazon.com)

Policy White Papers

Issues in Risk Assessment in Child Protective Services (Adobe PDF, 321 KB)

Confronting Barriers to Adoption Success (Adobe PDF, 224 KB)

Resource Papers

Placement and Permanence: A Practice Model for Child Welfare. (Adobe PDF, 155 KB) View Spanish/español version (Adobe PDF, 321 KB)

What Is Competency-Based Inservice Training? (Adobe PDF, 142KB)

Levels of Learning: A Framework for Organizing Inservice Training (Adobe PDF, 122KB)

A Continuum of Evaluation Strategies for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program (Adobe PDF, 374KB)

The 2003 revised Universe of Child Welfare Competencies for workers, supervisors, and caregivers, developed by the Institute for Human Services in collaboration with the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

Child Welfare Trainer Competencies (Adobe PDF, 162KB)

Competencies for Independent Living Services for Youth (Adobe PDF, 69.7 KB)

Commentaries

NARCCW’s Response to Thomas Morton’s Risk Wars Commentary Sept. 2003 (Adobe PDF, 53.9KB) NARCCW’s Response to Thomas Morton’s letter to Ohio’s County Child Protective Services Directors Nov. 2003 (Adobe PDF, 48.5 KB) Children’s Research Center’s Response to Thomas Morton’s “An Alternative View of Structured Decision Making Research” Nov. 2003 (Adobe PDF, 156 KB)