NASW Partners in Child Welfare
 
  • Every Child Matters
    NASW has joined forces with the Every Child Matters Education Fund to urge the nation's leaders to adopt smart policies and programs that stop child abuse, help working families get decent child care, provide access to high-quality pre-kindergarten education, strengthen after-school programs, and make sure that every child gets good health care, it means lower crime, stronger families, and a more productive economy. For more information go to www.everychildmatters.org
  • The Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care
    The Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care has been established to develop recommendations to improve outcomes for children in the foster care system. Of primary importance are expediting the movement of such children from foster care into safe, permanent, nurturing families, and preventing unnecessary placements in foster care.

    The Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care was announced on May 7, 2003 . The Commission is supported through a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute in Washington , D.C. The Commission is an independent, nonpartisan entity dedicated to developing effective, practical policy recommendations to improve the foster care system.
    www.pewfostercare.org
  • Fostering Results
    The Pew Charitable Trusts initiated support for the Children and Family Research Center at the School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through a grant to the University of Illinois Foundation to launch a public education and outreach campaign called Fostering Results. The campaign will work at the national level and in selected states to highlight the need to address the federal financing mechanisms that favor foster care over other services and options for children and families and to improve court oversight of child welfare cases. Fostering Results will engage influential national and local leaders, including judges, child welfare directors and caseworkers, and advocates for youth and for foster, birth and adoptive families, using media, reports and meetings to call attention to financing and court issues. The Trusts and Fostering Results welcome additional partners to help spearhead the campaign's activities at the national level and/or in specific states.
    http://www.fosteringresults.org/
  • The Annie E. Casey Foundation
    Since 1948 , the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States . The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
    www.aecf.org