Our Work Flyer Revised Spring 2006
This two-page flyer describes Family to Family's principles, outcomes, goals, and strategies.
English Version
Spanish Version

Family to Family Key Elements
Key elements of the Family to Family's four core strategies: team decisionmaking, building community partnerships, self-evaluation, and recruitment, development, and support.
5 pages (PDF)

A Family for Every Child: Strategies to Achieve Permanence for Older Foster Children and Youth 
72 pages (PDF)   Also available in Order Publications 

Implementing the Values and Strategies of Family to Family 
64 pages (PDF)   Also available in Order Publications 

Family to Family: Lessons Learned
36 pages (PDF)     Also available in Order Publications 

Recruitment, Training, & Support: The Essential Tools of Foster Care
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)   Also available in Order Publications 
Spanish version (PDF)
About the Authors

The Need for Self-Evaluation: Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice (Revised July 2001)
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)   Also available in Order Publications 
Spanish version (PDF)  
About the Authors

Strategic Communications: Media Relations for Child Welfare
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)
About the Authors

Building Support for Innovation Inside Child Welfare Agencies 
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)

Building Community Partnerships in Child Welfare

Part One
Building Partnerships with Neighborhoods and Local Communities 
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)
Spanish version (PDF)

Additional Building Partnerships Resource Documents:
Building Community Partnerships: Step by Step   Also available in Order Publications 
Building Community Partnerships: Step by Step – Appendices A - P

Part Two
Team Decisionmaking (TDM): Involving the Family and Community in Child Welfare Decisions (revised September 2002)
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)   Also available in Order Publications 
Spanish version (PDF)
About the Authors

Additional Team Decisionmaking Resource Documents: 
Frequently Asked Questions about TDM (Jan 2005 - PDF)
TDM: Implementation: Issues to Consider In Planning (Jan 2005 – PDF)
Implementing TDM: Sequencing Suggestions (Jan 2005 – PDF)
TDM Indicators and Outcomes (Jan 2005 – PDF)*
TDM Quarterly Report (Jan 2007 – PDF)
The Role of the Community Representative at TDM Meetings (May 2005 – PDF)
TDM Protocol/Policy Outline (July 2006 – PDF)
Domestic Violence: In the Moment Strategies for TDM Facilitators (May 2004 – PDF)

Part Three
Walking our Talk in the Neighborhoods: Partnerships between Professionals and Natural Helpers
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF) 
About the Authors

Part Four
People Helping People
Partnerships between Professionals and Natural Helpers
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)
About the Authors

The Challenge of Drug Abuse in Child Welfare

Part One
Back From the Brink: Women, Crack, and the Child Welfare System
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)
About the Authors

Part Two
Working With Drug-Affected Families: Training for Child Welfare Workers
Fact Sheet
About the Authors

Part Three
START: A Child Welfare Model for Drug-Affected Families
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)
About the Authors

 Collaboration for Change

Part One
A Model for Public and Private Child Welfare Partnership 
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)

Part Two
Partnerships between Corrections and Child Welfare 
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)

Shortening Children's Stay in Temporary Care

Part One
Policies and Practice to Shorten Children's Stay in Temporary Care
Complete Manual (PDF)

Part Two
Innovative Programs 
Combined Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)

Building Support for Child Welfare's Frontline Workers

Part One
Safety First: Dealing with the Daily Challenges of Child Welfare
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)
About the Authors

Part Two
The Resiliency Workshop: A Tool to Lessen Burnout in Child Welfare
Fact Sheet
Complete Manual (PDF)
About the Authors

In addition, several booklets, videos, reprints and evaluation reports have been developed on the initiative. These can be downloaded below:

Family to Family: Reconstructing Foster Care
An Initiative Overview
Brochure - 11 pages (PDF)

Products of the Evaluation of Family to Family (available online only):

• Family to Family Evaluation (includes)
  • Family to Family Evaluation Plan (2007)
  • Family to Family Implementation Analysis Report (2007)
  • Final Evaluation Report (1998)

  Family to Family: Building Bridges for Child Welfare with Families, Neighborhoods, and Communities. An article reprinted from the December 1999 issue of POLICY & PRACTICE, the journal of the American Public Human Services Association.
  Reprint - 6 pages (PDF)
  Spanish version (PDF)

  Videos:

  • Building Partnerships in Child Welfare (16 min) Available in Order Publications
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  • Building Partnerships in Child Welfare - Spanish subtitled version (16 min) Available in Order Publications
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  • Team Decisionmaking: Involving Family and Community in Child Welfare Decisions (21 min.) Available in Order Publications
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  • Voices of Youth: Supporting Adolescents in Foster Care (17 1/2 min.) Available in Order Publications
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  • Make a Difference (10:05 min)  Available in Order Publications
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  DVDs:

  • Voices of Youth: Supporting Adolescents in Foster Care (17 1/2 min.)  Available in Order Publications
  
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  Additional Resources

  The Facilitator: A national newsletter written for and by team decision-making facilitators and supervisors to exchange site news, practice information and announcements. Read the Fall/Winter 2007 issue.

  • Read the Spring 2007 issue.
    
    

  
  
  Undercounted. Underserved. Immigrant and Refugee Families in the Child Welfare System
  56 pages (PDF)

   

   

  
  Partners

  The Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Family to Family initiative are collaborating with the following partners. In addition to the resources below, you may view their websites for more information about these organizations.

  • Youth Communication publishes the following newsletters:
    • Rise Magazine - by and for parents in the child welfare system. 
    • Represent Magazine - by and for young people in foster care.
  • Family Violence Prevention Fund publications:
    • Connect - a mini magazine for parents and other caregivers on how to engage youth in discussions about domestic violence.
    • Steps Toward Safety: Improving Systemic and Community Responses for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence - 15 years of experiences and lessons across many inititaves dealing with the overlap of domestic violence and child maltreatment.

• The Challenges of implementing the initiative (1997) - 37 pages (PDF)