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Find Help For Individual Cases:
California Child Welfare Services County contact list
http://www.hwcws.cahwnet.gov/ContactList/
This is a county contact list of Child Welfare Services agencies. Please use this list to contact people to address specific child welfare/foster care case questions.
California Department of Social Services (CDSS) List of Social Services, Information, Forms:
http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/FindServic_716.htm
Child Support Services:
http://www.childsup.cahwnet.gov/county_locations.asp
Child Welfare Services Complaints:
http://www.childsworld.ca.gov/ChildWelfa_351.htm
Children and Family Services -- Child Abuse Prevention Information:
http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cfsweb/cfsdchilda_317.htm
Find your local Ombudsman:
http://www.childsup.cahwnet.gov/program/ombudsperson/contact.asp
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Child Welfare Related Research Resources:
Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
http://aia.berkeley.edu
Annie E. Casey Foundation Family to Family Initiative
http://aecf.org./familytofamily/
Family to Family includes principles, strategies, and tools to confront the real problems faced by child welfare systems.
California Department of Social Services (CDSS) -- Research and Development Division
http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/research/
The Research and Development Division of the California Department of Social Services compiles data tables and reports about children's programs, community care licensing, CalWORKS, etc...
California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC)
http://calswec.berkeley.edu
Also located at UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare, CalSWEC is the nation's largest state coalition of social work educators and practitioners, and is a consortium of the state's 15 accredited social work graduate schools, the 58 county departments of social services and mental health, the California Department of Social Services, and the California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Chapin Hall Center for Children
http://www.chapinhall.org/home_new.asp
is dedicated to building knowledge to improve the health and well-being of children.
Child Care & Early Education Research Connection (CCEERC)
http://www.childcareresearch.org
An effective tool for researchers and policymakers that facilitates access to current research and findings, datasets, statistics, instruments, and other analytic tools related to child care and early childhood education.
Child Trends
http://www.childtrends.org/HomePg.asp
is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing research and data to inform decision-making that affects children.
Child Welfare.com website
http://www.childwelfare.com/
A gateway to child welfare resources.
Child Welfare Services CWS/CMS Reports
http://cssr.berkeley.edu/CWSCMSreports/
Also known as Performance Indicators project, this website provides child welfare reports for California state and counties using data from the Child Welfare Services Case Management System (CWS/CMS).
Center for Child & Youth Policy
http://ccyp.berkeley.edu/
CCYP is a new Organized Research Unit at UC Berkeley focused on interdisciplinary research, and information dissemination to public policy makers at the state and local level.
Children Now
http://www.childrennow.org
Children Now is a nonpartisan, independent voice for children, working to translate the nation's commitment to children and families into action.
Family to Family California
http://www.f2f.ca.gov/
Family to Family (F2F) California is an initiative dedicated to reconceptualizing, redesigning and reconstructing California's foster care system to achieve a more family-centered, neighborhood-based approach in family foster care.
Jordan Institute for Families
http://ssw.unc.edu/jif/
The Jordan Institute for Families--the research, training and technical assistance arm of the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--is a resource for discovering effective practices and policies that build sound and supportive families.
Mental Health Services Research Group
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~cmhsr/
National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology
www.nrccwdt.org
This resource center assists front line workers, supervisors and administrators in child welfare, as well as judges and court administrative personnel, in using technology and information to inform policy and practice in child welfare.
Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/
A nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation.
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