Helping LGBTQ Families Navigate the Child Welfare System Recorded Webinar

Learn about the challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) families involved with the child welfare system and ways to help them.

Publication year: 2016

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Capacity Building Center for States

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Explore how foster care and adoption managers and other child welfare professionals can better understand the unique needs of LGBTQ families (either as prospective foster and adoptive families or as families in need of services). Learn useful strategies and resources to help child welfare agencies support them at the policy, program, and practice levels.

Suggested Citation

Capacity Building Center for States. (2016). Helping LGBTQ families navigate the child welfare system [Recorded webinar]. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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