Partners
This section of the website includes links to national organizations that have a role in interstate placement, medical assistance and national adoption programs.
National Resource Center on Adoption (NRC on Adoption)
The mission of the NRC on Adoption is to assist States, Tribes, territories and courts in building its capacity to ensure the safety, well-being, and permanency of abused and neglected children through adoption and post legal adoption services program planning, policy development and practice.
National Association of State Adoption Programs (NASAP)
The purpose of NASAP is to provide a forum in which State Adoption Program Managers can pool their expertise and to promote networking activities as an association with other direct child welfare entities and individual professionals so that each State can develop and maintain an efficient, state-of-the-art adoption program.
Training and Technical Assistance Network of the Children's Bureau (T & TA Network)
The purpose of the T&TA Network is to build the capacity of State, local, Tribal, and other publicly administered or publicly supported child welfare agencies and family and juvenile courts through the provision of training, technical assistance, research, and consultation on the full array of Federal requirements administered by the Children's Bureau. T&TA Network members provide assistance to States and Tribes in improving child welfare systems and conformity with the outcomes and systemic factors defined in the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) and the results of other monitoring reviews conducted by the Children's Bureau to ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
AdoptUSKids
The mission of AdoptUSKids is two-fold: to raise public awareness about the need for foster and adoptive families for children in the public child welfare system; and to assist U.S. States, Territories and Tribes to recruit and retain foster and adoptive families and connect them with children.
The National Association of State Foster Care Managers (NASFCM)
The NASFCM was established to enable state foster care managers to pool their expertise for the progressive improvement of the quality of care to children and families served by foster care and to share information about issues that impact the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in out of home care and their families. The Association’s mission also included informing and guiding policy-makers regarding laws and policies which affect the quality of life of children and families served by the foster care system. Through the NASFCM, foster care managers learn from each other’s experiences and share information and materials on practice, program, and policy issues in order to implement foster care and permanency programs most effectively, saving time and money and improving services nationwide.
The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC)
The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections at the Hunter College School of Social Work is a training, technical assistance, and information services organization dedicated to help strengthen the capacity of State, local, Tribal and other publicly administered or supported child welfare agencies to: institutionalize a safety-focused, family-centered, and community-based approach to meet the needs of children, youth and families.
Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (AAICPC)
The ICPC is the compact that regulates the placement of children who will be adopted by families who live outside the foster care state. The ICPC Professionals who administer the ICPC work together as the AAICPC.
AAICPC State Pages
ICPC Compact
National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators (NAPCWA)
NAPCWA is a national organization representing public child welfare agencies. Founded in 1983, it is an affiliate housed within the American Public Human Services Association. It is a membership association that is open to anyone through agency and individual memberships. It is governed by a 25-member Executive Committee whose members are elected annually by the state and local public agency membership. They provide input to APHSA on child welfare policy and oversee several working committees, chartered workgroups, grant projects, and biannual national meetings.
Updated: June 1, 2011