For agencies, courts, and providers serving families

Your mission is to help families.
Ours is to help you.

We train your teams, move plans into practice, and help your systems pull in the same direction.

Experience at scale

Our work adds up. Here is the math.

No two systems are the same. Experience helps us start with context, ask better questions, and shape the work around what your system needs.

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Programs

Four areas of work help public systems bring evidence and practice together.

Each program draws on CFF’s experience alongside courts, agencies, and providers.

FTC

Family Treatment Courts

For judges, coordinators, and agency partners building, running, or scaling family treatment courts.

  • 19 years of technical assistance for family treatment courts
  • Work with FTCs in all 50 states, D.C., and Guam
  • 10,000+ professionals trained, with 95% participant satisfaction

See How CFF Works With FTCs

START

Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams

For child welfare leaders responding to parental substance use.

  • Title IV-E Clearinghouse “Supported” rating
  • Sole national implementation partner for START
  • 5,000+ families served across 100+ START sites

See How START Works

RET

Research and Evaluation

For program leaders building evidence for the next decision.

  • 70+ sites evaluated
  • Dashboards, reports, and briefing visuals teams can use
  • Sacramento County: the longest running continuous FTC evaluation in the nation

See How RET Builds Evidence

Consulting

Collaborative Systems Change Consulting

For agencies and partners turning shared priorities into changes in policy and practice.

  • Strategic planning and systems improvement
  • Training, implementation support, and coaching
  • Facilitation and resource development

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a federal partnership since 2002

Children and Family Futures holds the federal contract for the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW). Co-funded by ACF and SAMHSA, the center provides national expertise through its consultation and technical assistance to child welfare agencies, courts, and treatment providers serving families affected by substance use and mental disorders.

Visit NCSACW

About

Why Children and Family Futures?

Since 1996, Children and Family Futures has worked within the systems that serve children and families. That direct experience shapes our work today.

Across the country, we work with Tribal, federal, state, and local partners to train their teams, strengthen their programs, and improve coordination across systems.

1996

Children and Family Futures founded

2002

First NCSACW contract

2017

START national expansion begins

2019

FTC Best Practice Standards, with All Rise

2026

Thirty years inside the work

Explore our team, funders, and history

Funded by SAMHSA · ACF · Casey Family Programs · New Allies · State and local agencies

“As a state agency responsible for supporting all treatment courts with technical assistance and training, Children and Family Futures supports our efforts by producing high-quality training and technical assistance tools that we can share with our state’s operational and planning recovery courts.”

Dr. Kirstin FrescolnNorth Carolina Judicial Branch

Next step

Not sure which program fits?

Tell us where things stand, and we will help you find the right fit.