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Welcome to Florida’s Center for the Advancement of Child Welfare Practice Web Portal
WWW.CENTERFORCHILDWELFARE.ORG

The Center supports Florida's child welfare professionals in achieving practice excellence and developing communities of practice to help keep kids safe. It is funded by the Department of Children and Families.  The Center facilitates the distribution of relevant, accurate and consistent information that is easily accessible and readily available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Hot Links to frequently used Tools and Resources are directly below.  Click on them to access the resource.  To visit the Full Knowledge Library, click on the Knowledge Library icon to the left. 
Local Tools Hot Links
Resources Hot Links
Read our Disaster Planning Resources
National Hot Links
Lookup County by City
Online Training Resources
A New Look coming The Center soon...

We're busy redesigning the look and navigation of the Center web portal to better meet your needs.  Get ready for more pleasing colors, improved page designs and navigation! Our enhancements will appear in stages over the next couple of weeks with no disruption to availablility 24/7.


NEW: DCF 10/28/09 "Policy Clarification - Determining TANF Eligibility for Children in Institutional Investigations in FSFN" Memo

Click here to read the memo.
 

NEW: DCF 10/29/09 "Home For The Holidays" Memo

Click here to read the memo (which includes reporting action required by 1/31/10).
 

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Child Welfare Training, Live Webcasts, and Funding Announcements
For a complete calendar of all upcoming conferences, click here.
 

DCF's 2009-10 Child Welfare Leadership Program.  Applications due Nov. 20.  Click here for the schedule; click here for the application.

Registration is open for the CWLA National Conference: Children 2010 Leading a New Era, Jan. 25-27, in Washington, DC.  Click here for details and registration. Early registration extended to Nov. 30.

PRIDE Training (Parents' Resource for Information Development Education), Feb. 8-10 and Feb. 22-24, 2010, in Tampa (USF). Click here for information and registration.

Save The Date: May 29-June 2, 2010, for the National Foster Parent Association 40th Annual Education Conference held in Baltimore, MD. Click here for additional information.

imPACT (Promoting Achievement through Consultation and Training)
In-service training for child welfare professionals.

Level 2, 3, and 4 Users Automatically Log On!
Pre-authorized level 2, 3, and 4 users can click on the Login button above, sign in, and click the 'sign me in automatically' box. Your web browser will then automatically bring you to the Home Page when you click on the Login button.  Click here to view login demo.

Retrieving Data
Local Tools Hot Links
Resources Hot Links
Trainer's Corner
National Hot Links
Search Federal Grants
Lookup County by City
Read our Disaster Planning Resources
   
 
 
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Located within our new Mental Health and Substance Abuse Resources Site

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View our login demo for level 2 and above users.

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Center Announcements 

COMING SOON!  The Center will have a NEW LOOK!  Content will remain the same but colors, page design and navigation will change.  Look for more information in the upcoming weeks as we improve our services to better meet your needs.

The Center supports National Adoption Month this month as a time to raise awareness about adopting kids from foster care. Our Adoptive Parent Resources page for prospective and current adoptive parents includes links to the Heart Gallery of Florida and Governor Crist's Explore Adoption site.  Help spread the word that loving, permanent homes are the right of every child!

We've just posted several videos from the recent Summit on Human Trafficking in FloridaView them here and also visit our Human Trafficking and Child Welfare page.

Visit our new pages -- Alternative Response, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Resources Navigation and Youth Space -- and check out our recently revamped Independent Living Resources page, all in the Knowledge Library.

"On the Line with CWLA" -- From the Child Welfare League of America, a live internet radio program every Wednesday from 2-3:30 p.m.  Click here for schedule and to listen to broadcasts.

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