The National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators (NAPCWA) is a professional affinity group for state and local public child welfare agency leaders that convenes peers, shares practice expertise, and channels agency perspectives into federal and state policy discussions to improve safety, permanency, and well‑being for children and families.
Child welfare system administration and financing, foster care and adoption policy, family preservation and prevention services (including implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act), kinship care and reunification, workforce development and training, data and information systems, interstate placement and case practice standards, and federal–state program implementation and regulatory issues
Primarily supported through APHSA sponsorship and administrative support, member and conference fees, and competitive grants or foundation partnerships
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), state and local child welfare agencies and directors, allied organizations such as Casey Family Programs, Child Welfare League of America, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, and other national child welfare and human services associations
Nonprofit professional affinity group (affiliate of the American Public Human Services Association, APHSA)
