Publications: Children and Family Services

Brochures

• Home Alone: Is Your Child Ready? (46kb pdf)
• Child Abuse and Neglect: Should I Report This? (46kb pdf)
• 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)
• NEW 2011 Child Welfare Data Snapshot (March 2013) (263kb pdf)
• 2010 Child Welfare Data Snapshot (March 2013) (273kb pdf)
• 2009 Child Welfare Data Snapshot (Feb. 2010)
• 2008 Child Welfare Data Snapshot (60kb pdf) (Feb. 2009)
• Head Start Fact Sheets and other publications
• Children and Family Services Review (March 2005) (52kb pdf)
• NEW Early Childhood Services Fact Sheet (June 2010) (66kb pdf)
• Children and Family Services Review Outcomes (April 2002) (20kb pdf)

Forms

• Indian Child Welfare Act

Handbooks

• Core Competencies for Early Education and Care Practitioners (3.11MB pdf) Defines what adults who work with children need to know, understand, and be able to do to support children in reaching desired outcomes.
• Early Learning Guidelines for Birth to 3 Years (April 2010) (881kb pdf)
  • These voluntary guidelines are intended for parents, child care providers, Early Head Start teachers, health professionals, and others who work with infants or toddlers. The Guidelines will be useful in understanding typical infant-toddler development and learning in three age categories:
    • Young infants birth to 8 months
    • Older Infants to 18 months
    • Toddlers 18 to 36 months
  • Development varies for each child
• Early Learning Guidelines for Ages 3-5 Years (April 2010) (701kb 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 indicator/guideline needs to be understood as a developmental continuum.
  • 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, and six-year-olds that are ready can demonstrate competence in the skill, knowledge, or disposition of indicators.
• REVISED September 2012 Foster Parent Handbook (1.92Mb pdf)
  • Foster Child Rights were revised in September 2012. See page 37.
  • Continuation in Foster Care Past Age 18 was revised in September 2012. See page 42.
  • Foster Parent Rights were added in June 2011. See page 16.
  • Prescriptions section was revised in June 2011. See page 40.
  • Home Property Damage Policy was revised in March 2008. See page 45.

Newsletters

• Children and Family News (Division's newsletter):
  • Summer 2010 (345kb pdf)
  • February 2010 (345kb pdf)
  • 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)
• Fostering Communications:
  • Fall 2010 (1,170Kb pdf)
  • Winter 2010 (1,174Kb pdf)
  • Fall 2009 (628kf pdf)
  • Fall 2008 (247kb pdf)
  • 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)

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)

Practice Tools

• Care Plan Blank - Combined (246kb pdf)
• Care Plan Blank Signature Sheet (42kb pdf)
• Child Welfare Dictionary (1.0Mb pdf)
• Child and Family Team Meeting Template (43kb doc)
• Child and Family Team Meeting Outline (78kb pdf)

Reports

• NEW The 2011-2012 N.D. Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) Summary of regional CFSRs completed in the second year of the N.D. Program Improvement Plan
• NEW N.D. Children & Family Services Plan: 2012 Annual Progress and Services Report (Title IV-B Sub Parts I and II, CAPTA, and Chafee ILP)
• NEW Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act (CAPTA) Plan (570kb pdf) (October 2012)
• N.D. Wrap Around Practice Model Program Improvement Plan (PIP) - Final/ Approved (779 kb pdf) (June 2010)
• 2009 Final Report and 2010-2014 IV-B Plan (7.57Mb pdf) (November 2009)
• Child and Family Services Review Final Report (5392kb pdf) (March 2009)
  • Executive Summary of CFSR Report (2163kb pdf) (March 2009)
• FFY 2010 Children and Family Services Statistical Bulletin (1.05mb pdf) (May 2012) Contains ND child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption data from Oct. 1, 2009 - Sept. 30, 2010
• 2008-2009 Children and Family Services Statistical Bulletin (489kb pdf) (June 2010) Contains ND child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption data
• FFY 2007 Children and Family Services Statistical Bulletin (389kb pdf) (Dec. 2008) Contains ND child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption data from Oct. 1, 2006 - Sept. 30, 2007.
• Child and Family Services Review Self Assessment - ND (847kb pdf) (February 2008)
• 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)
• 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 2007-2009 Annual Report (508kb pdf)
• Child Fatality Review Panel 2006 Annual Report (230kb 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)

Resource Directories

• North Dakota Foster Care Resource Directory (Jan. 2013) (655Kb 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

• Child Care and Development Fund State Plan (FFY 2010-2011) (636 kb pdf)

 

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