Partners with the new Fostering Court Improvement Initiative include:

American Bar Association Center on Children & the Law
http://www.abanet.org/child/home2.html
The ABA Center on Children and the Law is dedicated to improving children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice and public policy.

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
http://www.aradvocates.org/
AACF is a non-profit organization founded by a group of prominent and concerned citizens who believed that children needed a voice at the state capitol when important public policy decisions were being made. AACF strives to protect and promote through research, education and advocacy the rights and well-being of Arkansas children and their families, to assure that they have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives.

Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic of Emory University
http://www.childwelfare.net/
The Barton Clinic is located at the Emory University School of Law. It was developed to address the need in Georgia for an organization dedicated to effecting systemic policy and process changes for the benefit of the children in Georgia's child welfare system. The Clinic helps Georgia serve neglected and abused children by providing multi-disciplinary, child-focused research, training, and support for practitioners and policymakers charged with protecting Georgia's children.

Child Welfare League of America
http://www.cwla.org
The CWLA is the nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization.

Justice Management Institute
http://www.jmijustice.org/Home/PublicWeb
JMI is an independent, non-profit organization that dedicates a wide range of resources, disciplines, and techniques to improving the administration of justice. JMI engages in collaboration and innovative thinking to produce jurisdiction-specific results. JMI’s work takes the form of original research, direct technical assistance, workshops, professional publications and seminars, and other continuing education programs.

School of Social Work University of Missouri-Columbia
http://www.missouri.edu/~sswmain
The School of Social Work at the University of Missouri-Columbia strives to develop and disseminate knowledge that promotes leadership for social and economic justice through educational programs, scholarship, and service activities of faculty, administration, staff, and students.

Fostering Results’ partners include:

State Partners:

Children's Action Alliance (Arizona)
http://www.azchildren.org/caa/welcome.asp
CAA is a non-profit, non-partisan research, education and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the well-being of all of Arizona's children and families.

The Children's Law Center of Los Angeles
http://www.clcla.org
The Children's Law Center of Los Angeles is a nonprofit organization that serves as court appointed counsel for over 20,000 youth under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles dependency court. Our dedicated attorneys and staff represent over 80% of the children in the Los Angeles County foster care system and, as such, have ongoing contact with thousands of children and their families, caregivers and service providers. Members of our agency also participate in a variety of county, state and national groups dedicated to addressing the needs of children and families involved in the child welfare system.

County Welfare Directors Association of California
http://www.cwda.org/
The County Welfare Directors Association of California (CWDA) is a non-profit association representing the human service directors from each of California's 58 counties. The Association's mission is to promote a human services system that encourages self-sufficiency of families and communities, and protects vulnerable children and adults from abuse and neglect.

Connecticut Voices for Children
http://www.ctkidslink.org/
CT Voices for Children is dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth through high-quality research and public policy analysis, an active communications program, a commitment to promoting youth leadership and youth voice, and effective citizen mobilization and organizational collaboration.

Iowa Child Advocacy Board
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dia/CAB.html
The Child Advocacy Board works to ensure that Iowa's foster children are well cared for and that the system designed to meet their needs is doing so in the most effective manner possible.

Middleton Center for Children's Rights (Iowa)
http://www.middleton.drake.edu/
The Children's Center uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide improved service to children and families in need of assistance.

Citizens for Missouri's Children
http://www.mokids.org/
CMC is an independent voice for Missouri's children, advocating the rights and well-being of all Missouri's children.

Citizens' Committee for Children of New York
http://www.kfny.org/
CCC works to improve the well-being of all New York City children and ensure that they are healthy, housed, educated, and safe.

Public Children Services Association of Ohio
http://www.pcsao.org/
The Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO) is a proactive coalition of public children services agencies that promotes child safety, family stability, and community strength through the development of sound public policy, program excellence, training, and technical assistance.

Texas CASA
http://www.texascasa.org
Texas CASA advocates for abused and neglected children in the court system through the development, growth and support of local CASA programs.

Center for Public Policy Priorities (Texas)
http://www.cppp.org
The Center for Public Policy Priorities is a non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization committed to improving public policies and private practices that influence the economic and social prospects and conditions of individuals, families, and communities.

The Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Tennessee)
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/VIPPS/C&FPC/
The Child and Family Policy Center was created in 1996 to bridge research, policy and best practice to benefit children and families. The mission of the Child and Family Policy Center is to develop, promote and implement public policy and community strategies that strengthen children and families through research, advocacy and education.

Wisconsin Association of Family & Children's Agencies
http://www.wafca.org
WAFA is a non-profit organization that develops and provides advocacy, training and information services for its members and those they serve.


National Partners:

American Public Human Services Association
http://www.aphsa.org/
APHSA educates members of Congress, the media, and the broader public on what is happening in the states around welfare, child welfare, health care reform, and other issues involving families and the elderly.

Child Welfare League of America
http://www.cwla.org
The CWLA is the nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization.

Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
http://www.iaswresearch.org/
IASWR works to improve the lives of vulnerable populations by advocating for the importance of research to strengthen the social work profession's capacity to address complex social needs, and to contribute to improved prevention and treatment interventions, services, and policies.

National CASA
http://www.nationalcasa.org/index-1.htm
CASA programs throughout the country use trained community volunteers to speak for the best interests of children placed in foster care.

National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges
http://www.ncjfcj.org/
NCJFCJ is dedicated to serving the nation's children and families by improving the courts of juvenile and family jurisdictions.

North American Council on Adoptable Children
http://www.nacac.org/
NACAC supports children waiting to be adopted and the families who adopt them. This site provides information about, adoption from US foster facilities, post-adoption support, adoption subsidy, resources for potential adoptive parents and reseachers.

Voices for America's Children
http://www.childadvocacy.org/
Voices for America's Children is a national organization committed to working at the state and local levels to improve the well-being of children.