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

• Decreasing Rates Of Foster Care Entry Not Associated With Changes In Child Maltreatment Mortality Rates
• New York State’s Mental Health Services For Children To Undergo Makeover Following Lawsuit Settlement
• Settlement Agreement In C.K., et al. v. McDonald, et al., Case No. 2:22-cv-01791-NJC-JMW
• Child Mental Health Claims Declined By 1.2% Per Month After COVID Closures Ended
• Best Practices To Integrate Your Systems Of Care: A Conversation With Srinivas Velamoor, President & CEO Of NextGen Healthcare
• HHS Freezes Child Care & Family Assistance Grants In Five States Over Fraud Concerns
• Cincinnati Children’s Pediatric ACO & Telehealth Expansion Linked To Fewer Emergency Department, Urgent Care, In-Person Visits
• Wisconsin Streamlines Licensing For Foster Care Kinship Caregivers
• Smartwatch System Alerts Help Parents Shorten, Defuse Children’s Severe Tantrums Early
• Child Mortality In The U.S. Has Increased 14% From 2018 To 2023
• Louisiana DCFS Restructuring Centralized Intake Operations To Improve Child Welfare Response
• Out-Of-Pocket Spending For Child Behavioral Health Increased By 6.4% Annually Between 2011 & 2022
• U.S. Children Raised In Kinship Families More Likely To Live In Poverty, Have Physical & Mental Health Issues, Or Special Education Needs
• Rates Of Permanency Remain Lower Among Older Children In Foster Care Than Younger Children
• ACF & HHS Notify 39 Governors That States Must Stop Diverting Foster Youths’ Earned Social Security Survivor Benefits

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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

• Relatives Raising Children: Federal Support Helps, But Challenges Persist
• Illinois Announces Medicaid Coverage For Home Visiting Services For Pregnant & Parenting Individuals
• Nevada DCFS Using ‘Family-Match’ To Accelerate Adoptions
• California School Districts Have Billed $1.8 Million Through The Student Behavioral Health Initiative
• New York Launches $100 Million Child Day Care Capital Construction Funding Program To Create Up To 10,000 New Slots

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