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Advancing Equitable State Child Care Policies Using ARPA and Other Relief Funds

Part of the Resource Collection: Maximizing Federal Relief Funds Report
By: Alyssa Fortner, Tiffany Ferrette, and Christine Johnson-Staub, The Center for Law and Social Policy November 1, 2021
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During a time of historic COVID-related federal investment in child care and early education, states are working to leverage this opportunity to provide significant relief and recovery to providers and families. This report highlights the actions that select states have implemented to make the most of this critical time and opportunity.

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State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States

Report December 4, 2024

This comprehensive child welfare resource from Child Trends provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, permanency, and older youth in care. The data are essential to help policymakers understand how many children and youth come in contact with the child welfare system, and why. States can use this information to ensure that their child welfare systems support the safety, stability, and well-being of all families in their state.

Ensuring Children in Foster Care get the Supports They Need: Innovating Our Way to Solutions

Blog November 26, 2024

Since 2020, BUILD Initiative has explored how the child welfare system and other early childhood systems (i.e., health, mental health, housing, early intervention, transportation, economic support, early care and education and all the child-and-family serving systems) can align and work together to achieve better outcomes for children and families. According to Dr. Cynthia Tate, who leads the project, several states are developing promising programs, policies, and strategies that can inspire other states.