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Webinar

Learn about normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care in the context of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183).

Publication Year 2016
Webinar

Discover the key components of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training Academy.

Publication Year 2015
Video

Explores the planning task of creating a usability testing plan to try critical intervention components and implementation procedures to see how they work.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Learn how to create a culturally inclusive environment by developing a welcoming, culturally sensitive, supportive, and affirming agency for all people.

Publication Year 2017
Webinar

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Learn about the values of cultural competence, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and how to implement them at a child welfare agency.  

Publication Year 2021
Video

Hear a summary of the CWVE 2023 sessions and a motivational message for improving child welfare workforce recruitment, retention, and well-being.

Publication Year 2024
Video

Highlights the advocacy work of state and regional youth leadership councils. Two paid regional and state youth specialists and the Texas Director for Transitional Living Services describe how including youth voice by providing them a “seat at the table” at the state capital enhances the child welfare system. All three discuss the rewards and personal impact of their work.

Publication Year 2021
Video

This video is a part of the Empowering Caregivers, Strengthening Families Video Series. It demonstrates key aspects of agency support to caregivers, including the importance of quality personal contact, training, and resources to empower caregivers through the process of moving from foster parenting to adoption.

Publication Year 2021
Video

Examines how teams can determine an approach and develop a plan for pilot testing.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Presents strategies for building a systemwide organizational culture that promotes working collaboratively to improve service array.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

Publication Year 2021
Webinar

Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

Publication Year 2021
Video

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Tells the story of the relationship, initially forged over a shared meal, between a youth and her CASA worker. The CASA worker’s advocacy for concrete supports to meet the youth’s needs helped grow the trust in their relationship.

Publication Year 2021