Knowledge Base

In order to assist ORR-funded agencies in providing the highest quality in services, ORR has funded a number of technical assistance grants to organizations with expertise in a particular area. Technical assistance providers can help in a number of ways, depending on the provider’s time and funding constraints and the recipient agency’s particular needs.

Black Administrators in Child Welfare is a nationwide, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of African American children and their families who are gravely overrepresented in the nation’s child welfare system.

BRYCS is a national technical assistance program addressing challenges which refugee youth and children face in adjusting to life in the United States.

In 2005, the American Humane Association and the Loyola University Chicago Graduate School of Social Work forged a partnership to develop a resource initiative around issues of migration and child welfare

The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), the nation's only pan-Asian children's advocacy organization, aims to improve the health and well-being of Asian Pacific American children and families.

A Report By The Committee For Hispanic Children And Families

The purpose of this report is to provide policymakers, program leaders and staff, health administrators, scientists, and others with information that may help them understand the nature and extent of illegal drug use, associated behaviors, and problems that now affect our Nation’s racial/ethnic minority populations and the current non- Hispanic White majority population. Its content has been culled from the best and most recent reports on these topics.

Providing Christ-centered services to children and families in need. Foster care, Adoptions, Residential Care, Emergency Care.

Serves abused and neglected children in South Florida. JAFCO currently provides an entire continuum of programs and services for at-risk children and their families including the following: Family Preservation, Case Management Services, Foster/Adoptive Parent Recruitment, MAPP Training and Licensing, Home studies, Foster Care Placement, Supervision and Support, Adoption Placement and Post-Adoption Support Services, and MST (Multi-Systemic Therapy).

NICWA provides training and support for the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA). ICWA helps keep American Indian children with American Indian families.

Transracial or transcultural adoption means placing a child who is of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group. In the United States these terms usually refer to the placement of children of color or children from another country with Caucasian adoptive parents.

Link to 'Race Matters' a fact sheet from the Annie Casey Foundation providing information on the importance of, barriers to, and how to promote equal opportunity in Child Welfare