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Explore resources related to Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace video. 

Publication Year 2021
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See how listening and relatability helped build trust between a youth and his attorney.

Publication Year 2021
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Underscores the importance of consistency and encouragement in trusting relationships. A Fostering Success peer mentor gave impactful advice to the youth she mentored: Stop listening to the people who don’t believe in you.

Publication Year 2021
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Demonstrates how showing up and listening are foundational to developing a nourishing relationship with youth. A young woman describes the constant support she and her family received from a social worker as she evolved from a youth into a teen mom and an advocate.

Publication Year 2021
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Identify effective strategies for authentic youth engagement at the practice, peer, and system-change levels

Publication Year 2021
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Learn how and why racial and ethnic disparities exist in child welfare systems and in outcomes for children, youth, and families.

Publication Year 2021
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Discover strategies for using data to build evidence, engage youth, families, and other partners, and move toward racial equity in child welfare. ​

Publication Year 2021
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Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

Publication Year 2021