Current as of:
The Children's Bureau funds and supports research initiatives and submits mandated reports to Congress to better disseminate child welfare information as well as improve practices and policies. The ACF Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) partners with the Children’s Bureau to conduct research covering a broad array of topics, including strategies for prevention of maltreatment, and service needs and service outcomes for children who come to the attention of child welfare that inform and guide the full continuum of programs administered by the Children's Bureau.
Child Abuse Prevention
- Prevention Services Evaluation Partnerships: Building Evidence for Mental Health, Substance Use, In-Home Parent Skill-based, and Kinship Navigator Programs and Services
- Building Capacity to Evaluate Child Welfare Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families (CWCC)
- Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse
Adoption and Foster Care
- National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Adoption Follow-Up Study: Findings Report
- National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being
- Chafee Strengthening Outcomes for Transition to Adulthood (Chafee SOTA)
- An Examination of the Family Unification Program for Youth
Child Welfare
- Supporting Evidence Building in Child Welfare
- Spotlight: Understanding Judicial Decision-Making and Hearing Quality in Child Welfare
- State Child Welfare Data Linkages Descriptive Study
- Building Capacity to Evaluation Interventions for Youth/Young Adults At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH)
- Expanding Evidence on Replicable Recovery and Reunification Interventions for Families
- Implementation of Promoting Safe and Stable Families by Indian Tribes (PSSF)
- Domestic Human Trafficking and the Child Welfare Population