Articles
NCJFCJ/CLP Today Innovative Courts Series
Practice Standards
ABA Judicial Excellence in Child Abuse and Neglect Proceedings
NCJFCJ Enhanced Resource Guidelines: Improving Court Practice in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases
Systems Change Resources
Measuring Child Welfare Court Performance: Review of Resources
This report summarizes information about the types and range of measures developed to assess court, judicial, and attorney performance in child welfare cases and used to study child welfare court processes and judicial and attorney practices’ impact on child welfare case outcomes. The report will inform the development of performance measures for the Judicial, Court, and Attorney Measures of Performance (JCAMP) project.
CFSR Spotlight Series for the Legal and Judicial Communities
This series spotlights 4 topics for the legal and judicial communities drawn from the CFSR Round 3 Report for Legal and Judicial Communities, which summarizes states’ performance in meeting safety, permanency, and well-being needs of children and families as a result of the federal Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) conducted between 2015 and 2018.
Capacity Building Center for Courts Quick Sheets Series
This series provides succinct guidance around system improvement. These cover steps in system change, tools and approaches such as surveys and court observation, and system change perspectives for key substantive areas.