Improving Substance Use Screening and Service Matching for Families Involved in New York City’s Child Welfare System

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New York City Child Welfare

The Government Performance Lab (GPL) provided pro-bono technical assistance to help New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services better identify caregivers with substance use concerns in child welfare investigations and match them with appropriate support, in an effort to reduce the number of incidences of child abuse and neglect and improve caregiver health.

Innovator Interview: Empowering families through place-based resource centers in Washington DC

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Innovator Interview: Empowering families through place-based resource centers in Washington DC

Using active contract management to enable family resource centers to respond to family and community needs in Washington, DC

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Using active contract management to enable family resource centers to respond to family and community needs in Washington, DC

Conway Daily Sun: State Expands Residential Behavioral Health Treatment for Children

July 28, 2021

The Conway Daily Sun wrote a piece highlighting New Hampshire's expansion of residential behavioral health treatment for children. Governor Sununu remarked that the expansion "represents another step in our work to rebuild New Hampshire’s mental health system, and to ensure Granite Staters, especially children and youth, have access to appropriate behavioral health services within our State”. Read the ...

Uncovering earlier opportunities to keep children safe: A data-driven prevention approach to reviewing and responding to child maltreatment fatalities

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uncovering_opportunities_to_keep_children_safe_technical_guide_1.pdf

Texas Child Welfare Prevention Supports

Texas is seeking new ways to support families, elevate family preservation, and prevent abuse and neglect before it occurs. The GPL’s technical assistance aims to leverage data, family voice, and community input to help design, demonstrate, and spread upstream innovations that create greater access to services and offer supports before crises occur to families with complex needs.