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 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)

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

• REVISED North Dakota Foster Care Resource Directory (Nov. 2009) (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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