Welcome to the Child Welfare Manual! This document underwent some major revisions in 2019. It is now up to date with the Division’s practice model.
Please review the following foundational information about the Missouri child welfare system:
Chapter 1 – Practice Model Overview
Chapter 3 – Safety and Wellbeing Through Trauma Informed Practice
Chapter 4 – A Questioning Approach
Chapter 5 – Understanding and Assessing Child Safety
Chapter 6 – Case Mapping and Risk Assessment
Chapter 7 – Engaging Children and Youth
Chapter 8 – Creating Safety Networks
Chapter 10 – Team Decision Making
Chapter 1 - Recruitment and Responding to Inquiries
Chapter 2 - Resource Provider Training
Chapter 3 - Resource Family Assessment and Licensing
Chapter 4 - Emergency Resource Homes
Chapter 5 - Foster Home Utilization and Support
Chapter 6 - Support Groups for Resource Providers
Chapter 7 - Children’s Division’s Appeal Processes
Chapter 8 - Court Requested or Ordered Adoptive Assessment
Chapter 9 - Out of County Home Assessment
Chapter 10 - CD Employees as Foster or Adoptive Parents
Chapter 11 - Licensing of Resource Families Trained in Other States
Chapter 12 - Resource Provider’s Emergency Procedures
Chapter 13 - Resource Development Worker Responsibilities
Chapter 14 - Foster-Adoptive Resources
Chapter 16 - Relative Foster Care
Chapter 17 - Respite Foster Care
Chapter 18 - Resource Providers Approved to Provide Elevated Needs Foster Care Services
Chapter 19 - Background Checks
Chapter 20 - Roles and Responsibilities of Resource parents
Chapter 1 - Grievance and Appeals
Chapter 3 - Research Protections and Data Requests
Chapter 4 - Child Public Performance and Media Involvement
Chapter 5 - Facilities Management
Chapter 7 - Contracted Services
Chapter 8 - Request for Field Support
Chapter 9 - Fatality/Critical Event Reporting and Review Protocol
Chapter 1 (Foster Care Missouri Revised Statutes)
Chapter 2 (Adoption Missouri Revised Statutes)
Chapter 3 (Child Care Missouri Revised Statutes)
Chapter 4 (Child Placing Agencies Development Missouri Revised Statutes)
Chapter 5 (Juvenile Court Missouri Revised Statutes)
Chapter 6 (Residential Facilities Missouri Revised Statutes)
Chapter 7 (Resource Development Missouri Revised Statutes)
Chapter 8 (Child Abuse and Neglect Missouri Revised Statutes)
Chapter 9 (Family Care Safety Registry)
Chapter 10 (Missouri Code of State Regulations Title 13 Division 35)
Chapter 11 (Missouri Code of State Regulations Title 13 Division 40)
Chapter 12 ( Missouri Code of Regulations Title 13 Division 45)
Chapter 13 ( Missouri Code of State Regulations Title 19 Division 30)
Chapter 14 (Federal Regulations)