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Explore strategies to engage individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more. 

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Explore how legal and judicial professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

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Explore how child welfare leaders, managers, and supervisors can motivate their staff to use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

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Explore how frontline child welfare professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

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Learn strategies for accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

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Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

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Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

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Explore foundational information to build shared understanding of child welfare data collection and evidence.

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Discover services and resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare. 

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Learn about the challenges of engaging difficult-to-reach populations of youth and young adults. 

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Explore how research, evaluation, and continuous quality improvement efforts help strengthen practice and increase effectiveness in child welfare. 

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Explore the role of all staff as discerning consumers of evidence. Learn how data and information from children, youth, and families can be used to inform practice at every level of the organization. 

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Hear an agency leadership perspective on effectiveness in child welfare.

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Hear a tribal perspective on effectiveness in child welfare.

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Hear about effectiveness in child welfare from a legal representative’s perspective.