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PDF

Access strategies to better understand and implement the family engagement requirements of the FFPSA.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Learn solid strategies for understanding and implementing the trauma-informed care provisions of the FFPSA.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Develop a better understanding of customized congregate care and learn about implementing the FFPSA provisions in congregate care QRTP assessment.

Publication Year 2021
Podcast

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.

Publication Year 2023
PDF

Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

Publication Year 2017
PDF

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

Publication Year 2017
PDF

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Publication Year 2016
PDF

Explore tools, resources, and strategies to build a continuum of behavioral health care for children and youth involved with child welfare. 

Publication Year 2022
Video

This webinar provides an overview of the Family First Prevention Services Act provisions and strategies related to reducing reliance on congregate care.

Publication Year 2018