Resources

• Tools for Permanency - Child Welfare Mediation
  This is a tool that child welfare agency and court practitioners may use to engage families in decision making about their children and themselves. (September, 1998)
  

• Using Child Welfare Mediation to Expedite Permanency
  This article from the National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center describes the child welfare mediation technique used by Teamwork for Children, through a federal grant to the Oregon State Office of Services to Children and Families (OSOSCF).

• Mediation: Child Protection Mediation
  From the National Center for State Courts

• Creative Conflict Resolution for Dependency Cases
  This article is from Future Trends in State Courts 2007, from the National Center for State Courts.
  
  
• Mediation in Child Welfare
  This information sheet, authored by Della Knoke and published by Centres of Excellence for Children’s Well-Being, describes the use of mediation in child welfare and summarizes key findings of evaluations that have been conducted in a number of areas across Canada and the United States. (2009)

• Michigan: Permanency Planning Mediation Pilot Program: The Michigan Experience
  This article from the Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal provides a retrospective look at the first three years of Michigan's Permanency Planning Mediation Pilot (PPMP) Program (child protection mediation) in seven Michigan pilot program sites. It concludes that mediation for child protection cases has been successfully implemented in Michigan.

• New Mexico: Mediation
  A guide for parents and guardians about participating in mediation. Also available in Spanish.

NRCFCPPP Information Packet

• Child Welfare Mediation by Kathleen Stack (May 2003)

• Child Protection and Child Welfare Mediation (January 2000)

                                                                                                                             
Last updated 06/18/2009