Child & Family Services

The children and family services market encompasses a wide range of services and supports for children who are involved with the child welfare system and/or who have complex physical and behavioral health conditions. For organizations serving children, the market challenges are increasing – from increased incidence of serious child mental health issues and autism, to a lack of community-based placements for children with complex needs, to increases in family involvement in the child welfare system due to parental opioid use, to uncertainty in the special education sector about the implications of new federal policies.

Latest Resources

• Building Compassionate, Engaged Teams For A Culture That Matters: The New Hope Treatment Centers Case Study
• Prevalence Rates Of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Adolescents Remained Stable From 2016-2023
• Child First & Center
• Knight Therapeutics Launches Canadian Sales Of ADHD Medication JORNAY PM For Children
• Child Welfare Agency Spending Increases 3% In Past Decade To $34.3 Billion In 2022
• State Child Welfare Spending Per Child In Poverty During 2022, Ranged From $772 In Louisiana To $11,244 In Rhode Island
• Thompson Child & Family Focus Expands Services In Kentucky To Support Placement Stability For Youth
• Parents Anonymous Expands Family Support With New Well-Being Center In California’s Antelope Valley
• Five Mississippi Youth Courts Receive Grants From Youth Villages Initiative, New Allies, To Increase Services For Families
• Connecticut Judicial Branch Awards $14 Million Behavioral Health Services Contract To Yale University, Will Serve Accused & Adjudicated Juveniles
• After The ACA & Before COVID-19, More U.S. Children Relied On Medicaid, CHIP, Or Marketplace Plans Than On Private Insurance
• Prosecutors Initiated At Least 412 Pregnancy-Related Cases & 441 Charges In 16 States From 2022 To 2024
• Arizona Pauses Newly Updated Needs Assessment For Children With Developmental Disabilities
• HHS Awards $61.9 Million In One-Time Funding To Enhance Head Start Nutrition Services
• More U.S. Women Are Having Fewer Children

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Child First & Center

It has been almost 30 years since the original Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study—Relationship Of Childhood Abuse And Household Dysfunction To Many Of The Leading Causes Of Death In Adults—was conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997 (see About The CDC-Kaiser ACE Study). The findings were compelling. Persons who had experienced four or more ‘adverse experiences’ as children had 4- to 12-fold increased health risks for alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, and suicide attempts as… Read

• 94% Of Youth & Young Adults In California Report Experiencing Frequent Mental Health Challenges
• Friends Of The Poor & Catherine McAuley Center Unite To Expand Services For Vulnerable Families
• Federal Administration For Children & Families Selects Five States To Launch TANF Pilots With New Outcomes Measurement
• FY2024 – TANF Caseload Data As Of 1/30/2025
• Federal Administration For Children & Families Selects Five States To Launch TANF Pilots With New Outcomes Measurement

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