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

• New York Announces Child Care Expansion Pilot Partnerships With Three Counties
• UMCH Family Services Of Columbus Merges With CHOICES, Inc. Of Dayton
• Strengthening Teams With Connection-Driven Leadership & Intentional Practice: The Omni Family Institute Case Study
• Functional Limitations & Illness-Related Absenteeism Among School-Aged Children With & Without Long COVID, United States, 2022-2023
• New York Announces $20 Million For Development Of Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Programs
• New York Announces Investments To Deliver Universal Child Care For Children Younger Than Age 5
• New York City Faces Record Youth Mental Health Crisis
• New Minnesota Nonprofit Launches To Offer Legal Support To Kinship Caregivers
• 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

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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

• 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

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