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Webinar

Building Organizational Capacity in the Implementation of the Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard in Accordance With P.L. 113–183 Recorded Webinar

Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

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Defining Quality Contacts

Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

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Having the Normalcy Conversation: Sample Agenda

Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

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Youth Engagement Blueprint [Infographic]

Illustrates the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity supporting engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care. Each of the four segments succinctly defines an element of organizational capacity building for youth engagement.

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Youth Engagement Blueprint [Infographic]

Explore the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity that supports engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care.