This week we saw growing evidence of the fact that placement stability may be the most important goal we can set for children in the foster care system. Eric Adler’s recent article, Frequent moves don’t just harm foster kids’ emotions – they hurt their brains, part of...

ECAP uses its research-backed workflows and algorithms to begin matching children with adoptive families with a win in the State of Maine.

According to MeriTalk, a major publication for CIOs and IT policymakers, the future of government IT will be heavily impacted by new cloud-based technologies,

The Capacity Building Center for the States’ series, Inventory of Innovations, informs organizations about innovations that are helping address common child welfare problems. ECAP’s groundbreaking use of data to improve foster care placements is discussed in the Invent...

The Redlich Horwitz Foundation recently published a Best Practices Inventory--a roadmap showing how agencies can attract and support amazing foster families. Their eight recommendations cover the full scope of agencies' work with kinship and foster families.

Foster parents have a duty to be an advocate for the children in their care. Often, these children come from troubled homes and have been victims of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. While signs of physical abuse are fairly obvious, indications that a child has su...