See how staff can boost their knowledge and skills for engaging families, community providers, and others.

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​​Increase awareness and understanding of the healthcare needs of children and youth in foster care, the medical services available to them, and the healthcare services available for children who return home and youth who age out of care.​ 

Pair this recorded webinar with the discussion guide to learn caregiver and birth parent partnerships and trauma-informed visitation. 

Learn how to support state planning and implementation of the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), which is required by the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183), to help children and youth in foster care experience normal childhood and adolescent activities. 

Learn how child welfare professionals and family leaders can use the Parent Partner Program Navigator, a web-based, interactive resource that offers guidance for designing and implementing parent partner programs at child welfare agencies.

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Provides information on how to engage youth and young adults in child welfare practice and how to use certain strategies to support youth engagement. 

​​Explore various perspectives on how child welfare professionals can engage youth and young adults in child welfare practice.​ 

Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

Learn why relationships between parents and caretakers are critical for the reunification of children and their families and hear about strategies that support family connections in this recorded webinar.

Identifies the first three steps in the problem exploration process and examines the importance of data, key components of a data plan, and common mistakes to avoid in identifying problems in child welfare.

Identifies the final three steps in the problem exploration process and strategies that can help with analyzing data, root causes and contributing factors of problems, and common mistakes to avoid in problem exploration.

Explore promising practices in pregnancy, parenting, and prevention services and view practice examples, including evidence-based programs, in-home services, and specialized units.

Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.

Build skills in community engagement in quality improvement and enhanced data exploration.