Child Welfare Professional

The Wisconsin Family Connections Center works diligently to provide information and resources to not only families, children, and youth but also to child welfare professionals. We continually research and look to locate guides, best practice articles, and other tools that may be beneficial for workers.

Quick Links

• Foster Care Recruitment Campaign Materials
• Intensive Foster Care Toolkit

First Nations Fostering Materials

• Download a PDF of the First Nations Fostering brochure.

You are welcome to use the images from the First Nations Fostering campaign in your work to announce information sessions, family events, or other important information for families and potential families in your area. Simply right-click on the image below to download the image you would like to use.

Resource Guides

• Subsidized Guardianship Resource for Child Welfare Professionals: A resource for child welfare professionals supporting children, parents, and caregivers through the child welfare system.

• Guide for Providers: No-Cost Training Resources on Kinship/Grandfamily Mental Health Needs
  The resources in this guide contain information useful to staff from a range of professional backgrounds. They are grouped in sections covering broad categories of mental health needs, including articles, podcasts, recorded webinars, and videos. Each resource is presented with a brief description, a link to its web location, and a link to the organization that created or is hosting it.

• Introduction to Relative Care: A Resource Guide for Child Welfare Workers (PDF)
• Lean On Me: Support and Minority Outreach for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
  This comprehensive guide offers a lot of information and separate sections for African-American, Hispanic, and Native-American families.
• Treat Them Like Gold: A Best Practice Guide to Partnering with Resource Families
  Though this guide provides many specific strategies that have proven effective in North Carolina and elsewhere, at its heart is one basic rule: if you want to successfully recruit, retain, and partner with resource families, treat them like gold. This guide seeks to give you tools and strategies you and your agency can use to build, refine, and sustain partnerships with resource families.

Sign Up for Emails

• Foster Care Footnotes is a quarterly email newsletter for Foster Care Coordinators and related child welfare professionals.
• The Quarterly Wisconsin Family Connections Center Newsletter includes information for all child welfare professionals across Wisconsin.

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