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Explore the Center’s Focused Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Services training curriculum and learn more about how it can be used to support a team’s CQI goals.

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Learn about applications that can make information gathering more efficient, increase useful data, and help you better understand those you serve. 

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Use the resources in this list to support young people’s transitional needs and help them develop the skills needed for independent living after exiting foster care.

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Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

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Bruce and Brenda have been married for 33 years and have four daughters. From 2006 to 2009, they provided a kinship placement for their four grandchildren. In 2010, the couple adopted Bruce (now 18 years old), Tre’Nae (now 15 years old), Mason (now 13 years old), and Kiaunna (now 10 years old).

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Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

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Learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise. 

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Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

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Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

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Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

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Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

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Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator maltreatment in foster care.

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Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services. 

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Learn about organizational capacity to assess readiness and how it impacts retention of people with lived expertise in child welfare agencies.
 

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Review the steps for running the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance on statewide data indicators.