There are a number of resources available to assist and guide advocacy organizations in leveraging the opportunities provided by the Family First Prevention Services Act, including:
GENERAL GUIDANCE
(7/2025) Title IV-E Prevention Program Resources, HHS Children’s Bureau
(2025) Family First State Plans and Enacted Legislation, National Conference of State Legislatures
(2024) Establishing community pathways to prevention services: In the context of the Family First Prevention Services Act, Chapin Hall
(03/2023) Family First Prevention Services Act, Questions from the Field, Casey Family Programs
(2/2023) APHSA Webinar – Looking Back: 5 Years of Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), American Public Human Services Association
(12/2021) Unlocking the “Prevention Services” in the Family First Prevention Services Act, American Public Human Services Association
(04/01/2021) The Family First Planning and Readiness Toolkit, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
(04/01/2021) 2021/2022 Prevention Resource Guide, Child Welfare Information Gateway
(03/17/2021) Title IV-E Prevention Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(12/2020) The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018: A Guide for the Legal Community, American Bar Association
FamilyFirstAct.org, web resource hosted by FosterClub
(08/04/2020) WEBINAR: The State of Prevention—Family First Prevention Services Act and Child Welfare, Alliance for Early Success
(08/2020) Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) & HFA home visiting, Healthy Families America
(03/12/2020) Planning Title IV-E Prevention Services: A Toolkit for States, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(03/2020) Putting Family First: Developing an Evidence-Based Child Welfare Preventive Practice Model, Annie E. Casey Foundation(July 2020) Family First Prevention Services: Conducting a Fiscal Analysis, Annie E. Casey Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation
(2020) Podcast Episode: Family First – Title IV-E Prevention Plan Implementation Updates, Part 1, HHS Child Welfare Information Gateway
(02/2019) New Tool Kit Helps Leaders Communicate the Benefits of Family First Law, Annie E. Casey Foundation
CANDIDACY
(09/2020) Candidacy Considerations for the Preventive Provision of Family First, Chapin Hall at theUniversity of Chicago
(03/12/2020) Family First Prevention Services Act: Candidacy by Jurisdiction, Chapin Hall and Casey Family Programs
(10/2019) Family First Prevention Services Act: Candidacy Considerations, Chapin Hall and Casey Family Programs
INFANTS, TODDLERS, AND YOUNG PARENTS
(11/2023) Using the Family First Act to Grow and Nurture Support Systems for Families of Young Children, Child Trends
(07/2023) What strategies can help prevent unintended pregnancy for youth in foster care?, Casey Family Programs
(08/2020) Podcast Episode: Supporting Parenting and Expectant Teens in Foster Care, HHS Child Welfare Information Gateway
(02/27/2020) States can improve supports for infants and toddlers who are in or at risk of entering foster care, Child Trends and ZERO TO THREE
(6/2019) New Tool Kit Helps Child Welfare Leaders Utilize Data to Support Expectant and Parenting Youth, Annie E. Casey Foundation
(10/2018) Family First Prevention Services Act, ZERO TO THREE
KINSHIP CARE
(03/2024) Making a Way Out of No Way: The Importance of Improving Financial Instability Among African American Kinship Care Families, Children and Youth Services Review
(2/2023) Kinship Navigator Programs Around the United States, Generations United
(04/2021) GrandFacts: State Fact Sheets for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children, Generations United
(03/31/2021) Strategies to Build Evidence for Kinship Navigator Programs Under the Family First Act, Child Trends
(01/2020) Supporting Kinship Caregivers Through the Family First Prevention Services Act, Annie E. Casey Foundation
(2018) Family First Prevention Services Act: Implementing the Provisions that Support Kinship Families, Grandfamilies.org
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
(4/2023) Summary of Programs Rated by the Prevention Services Clearinghouse, Casey Family Programs
(10/2021) Interventions Relevant to Children and Families Being Served with Family First Funding that Have Been Shown to be Effective with Families of Color, Casey Family Programs
(03/31/2021) Strategies to Build Evidence for Kinship Navigator Programs Under the Family First Act, Child Trends
(12/2020) Implications of COVID-19 on the Research and Evaluation Provisions of the Family First Act, Child Trends
TRIBES AND TITLE IV-E
(01/2021) Information Memorandum (IM-21-04): Allowable flexibilities related to adaptations of evidence-based programs in the title IV-E prevention services program for tribal communities, HHS Children’s Bureau
(09/06/2019) North Dakota Tribes Sign Updated Agreement with State Over Child Welfare Services, Bismarck Tribune
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