Important Website Resources:

• Child Welfare League of America
  CWLA is a powerful coalition of hundreds of private and public agencies serving vulnerable children and families since 1920. Their expertise, leadership and innovation on policies, programs, and practices help improve the lives of millions of children in all 50 states.
     
• National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data
  The mission of NRCCWDT is to assist State, local and tribal child welfare agencies and the courts in improving outcomes for children and families through the use of data and information technology.
   
• Chapin Hall Center for Children
  Established in 1985, Chapin Hall is an independent policy research center whose mission is to build knowledge that improves policies and programs for children and youth, families, and their communities.
   

• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
  OJJDP, a component of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, accomplishes its mission by supporting states, local communities, and tribal jurisdictions in their efforts to develop and implement effective programs for juveniles. The Office strives to strengthen the juvenile justice system's efforts to protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and provide services that address the needs of youth and their families.

• Foster Family-Based Treatment Association
  The Foster Family-based Treatment Association strengthens agencies that support families caring for vulnerable children.
   
• Stewards of Change
  Stewards of Change™ (SOC) is a business with a social mission: to provide child welfare, other public human service agencies and not-for-profit organizations with the latest cross-sector innovations to take social change to scale and to improve the outcomes of the children and families they serve.
   
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and related professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information.
   

• Public Children's Services Association of Ohio
  PCSAO is a membership driven association serving Ohio's 88 County Public Children Services Agencies through the support of program excellence and sound public policy for safe children, stable families and supportive communities.

• Central AFrica's Rights & AIDS (CARA) Society
  CARA (Charity No. 1101373) is an independent charity that was set up in July 2003 to provide free legal advice and representation to people facing disadvantage. It is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed and dedicated to empowering the poor by improving their quality of life in the UK & Africa.