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)
• NEW 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)
• Early Childhood Services Fact Sheet (October 2007) (48kb pdf)
• Child Protection Services Fact Sheet (October 2004) (47kb pdf)
• Children and Family Services Review Outcomes (April 2002) (20kb pdf)

Forms

• Indian Child Welfare Act

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)
• Fostering Communications:
  • 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

  • Child Welfare Dictionary (1.0Mb pdf)

  Reports

  • NEW Child and Family Services Review Final Report (5392kb pdf) (March 2009)
    • Executive Summary of CFSR Report (2163kb pdf) (March 2009)
  • 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 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 (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

  • NEW DRAFT 2009-2011 Child Care and Development Fund State Plan for North Dakota (368kb pdf) (NOTE: Comment Period ends June 2, 2009. See details.)
  • Child Care and Development Fund State Plan (FFY 2008-2009) (409 kb pdf)
  • 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)

   

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