The National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning 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. The National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning is a service of the Children's Bureau - ACF/DHHS.

www.nrcfcppp.org/fewpt NRCFCPPP Announces the Family Engagement: A Web-based Practice Toolkit The National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Permanency Planning is proud to close National Foster Care Month by providing an additional timely resource to the field. The Family Engagement: A Web-based Practice Toolkit was funded through a cooperative agreement between the Hunter College School of Social Work in New York and the Children’s Bureau to the National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning. This toolkit is intended as an online tool for programs, states and tribes where promising practices, programs and resources are made available. It can provide an opportunity to connect with colleagues and share program successes and challenges. For this toolkit, we have chosen a few examples and recognize that they are by no means the only programs using some of these principles and practices. Our goal is to continuously update this on-line toolkit to reflect current practices and resources in the field and recognize programs and practices.

May is National Foster Care Month: Use our new online map to access fact sheets about foster care in each state, including statistics and contact information to find out how to become a foster parent in that state. NRCFCPPP prepared the fact sheets as part of the National Foster Care Month campaign.