Publications: Children and Family Services
Brochures
- North Dakota Adoption Assistance Program (46kb pdf)
- Understanding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) (317kb pdf)
Fact Sheets
- Federal
Children and Family Services Review Composite Scores and ND Data
(July 2007) (See overview Powerpoint
below)
- Definitions/Explanations of Data Elements (July 2007)
- 2006-2007 Child Welfare Data Snapshot (85kb pdf) (Feb 2008)
- Profiles of Families with Children Enrolled in North Dakota Head Start and Early Head Start (2006 version); (119kb pdf)
- Profiles of Staff and Volunteers for North Dakota Head Start and Early Head Start (2006 version); (165kb pdf)
- Head Start and Early Head Start Services (2006 version) (187kb pdf)
- 2006 N.D. Head Start and Early Head Start Enrollment (190kb pdf)
- Children and Family Services Review (March 2005) (52kb pdf)
- Early Childhood Services Fact Sheet (October 2007) (48kb pdf)
- Child Protection Services Fact Sheet (October 2004) (47kb pdf)
- Background on Children and Family Services Review (January 2001) (28kb pdf)
- Children and Family Services Review Outcomes (April 2002) (20kb pdf)
Forms
Handbooks
- Early Learning Guidelines for Ages 3-5 Years (June 2008) (1.65Mb pdf)
- These voluntary guidelines are intended as a resource for parents, child care providers, pre-kindergarten and Head Start teachers, and others. They outline the skills, knowledge, and dispositions young children need prior to entering first grade.
- Development differs for every child; each child will demonstrate varying levels of competence in the domains, the sub-domains, and among the indicators/guidelines.
- Each indicator/guideline needs to be understood as a developmental continuum statement.
- It is expected that adults will create natural/play situations:
- In which three-year-olds who are ready can demonstrate emergence of the skill, knowledge, or disposition of indicators.
- In which six-year-olds that are ready can demonstrate competence in the skill, knowledge, or disposition of indicators.
- REVISED March 2008 Foster Parent Handbook
(5.72Mb pdf)
- Home Property Damage Policy was revised in March 2008. See page 42.
Newsletters
- Children and Family News:
- May 2007 (87kb pdf)
- November 2006 (87kb pdf)
- June 2006 (90kb pdf)
- February 2006 (89kb pdf)
- November 2005 (90kb pdf)
- June 2005 (99kb pdf)
- April 2005 (102kb pdf)
- October 2004 (33kb pdf)
- June 2004 (39kb pdf)
- March 2004 (39kb pdf)
- December 2003 (44kb pdf)
- October 2003 (44kb pdf)
- Fostering
Communications:
- Summer 2008 (604kb pdf)
- Winter 2008 (453kb pdf)
- Fall 2007 (325kb pdf)
- Winter 2007 (467kb pdf)
- Fall 2006 (393kb pdf)
- Summer 2006 (339kb pdf)
- Winter 2006 (339kb pdf)
- Fall 2005 (412kb pdf)
- Summer 2005 (750kb pdf)
- Winter 2005 (1.5Mb pdf)
- Winter 2004 (120kb pdf)
- Spring 2004 (149kb pdf)
- Fall 2004 (426kb pdf)
Posters
- Native American Foster/Adopt Recruitment Poster (1.2Mb pdf) (January 2007)
Power Point Presentations
- Federal Children and Family Services Reviews: Measuring Outcomes (Powerpoint) (July 2007)
- Government to Government - N.D. State and Tribal Collaboration (1.8Mb pdf)(August 2005)
Reports
- NEW Child and Family Services Review Self Assessment - ND (847kb pdf) (February 2008)
- NEW FFY 2005/2006 Children and Family Services Statistical Bulletin (January 2008) (Contains data on child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption in North Dakota) (531kb pdf)
- NEW North Dakota Foster Care Provider
Recruitment and Retention Survey: 2007 Snapshot (January 2008) (211kb pdf)
- Wage Comparability Study: N.D. Head Start and Early Head Start (2006) (101kb pdf)
- Child Fatality Review Panel 2005 Annual Report (134kb pdf)
- Child Fatality Review Panel 2004 Annual Report (121kb pdf)
- Child Fatality Review Panel 2003 Annual Report (220kb pdf)
- Children And Family Services Review Program Improvement Plan (November 2003) (108kb pdf)
- Children
and Family Services Review Report (April 2002) (128kb pdf)
- Children and Family Services Review Report Executive Summary (April 2002) (40kb pdf)
- Foster Care and Adoption Annual Report (2003) (128kb pdf)
- Child Abuse and Neglect Annual Report (2001) (6.56Mb pdf)
Resource Directories
- North Dakota
Foster Care Resource Directory (145Kb pdf)
Contains information about group homes, residential child care facilities, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, and licensed child placing agencies
for foster care - A
Connection: for Families and Agencies (1.1Mb pdf)
A resource directory for North Dakota families with young children ages birth through age eight.
State Plans
- DRAFT Child Care and Development Fund State Plan (FFY 2008-2009)
- Growing
Futures: North Dakota Early Childhood Professional Development State
Plan (117kb pdf) (Created July 2006)
- Power Point Presentation: Overview of Growing Futures: ND Early Childhood Professional Development Plan (53kb pdf) (November 2006)
- N.D. Child and Family Services New 5 Year Plan and Final Report for 2000-2004 (147kb pdf)

