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Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Publication Year 2023
Video

Learn how Anntesha’s experience as a child living with her grandparents and later in foster care influenced her to become a relative caregiver to her niece and nephew and work as a kinship navigator. 

Publication Year 2022
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

Publication Year 2023
Video

Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Listen to a judge and a child welfare agency leader discuss the challenges, achievements, and strategies of the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court. This longstanding collaboration between the child welfare, substance use treatment, and judicial systems has been steadily growing its Family Treatment Court Team and improving outcomes for families since 2001.

Publication Year 2020
Webinar

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

Publication Year 2022
PDF

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

Publication Year 2020
PDF

Explore this tip sheet to learn about child welfare agency and court responsibilities related to APPLA provisions and strategies to achieve permanency.

Publication Year 2017
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s quality assurance system is functioning.

Publication Year 2023
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Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

Publication Year 2023
PDF

Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

Publication Year 2023
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s statewide information system is functioning.

Publication Year 2023
PDF

Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

Publication Year 2021