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Innovative Practices to Promote Reunification: National Reunification Month Recorded Webinar

Explore innovative programs and strategies that child welfare professionals can use to support reunification and emphasize caregiver and parent voice.

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Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace 

Explore strategies to help child welfare organizations create equity in the workplace. 

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Keeping It Real: How Simulation Training Can Support the Child Welfare Workforce

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

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Post-Reunification Supports and Prevention of Reentry Into Out-of-Home Care: National Foster Care Month Recorded Webinar

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

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Protective Capacities and Protective Factors: Common Ground for Protecting Children and Strengthening Families Recorded Webinar

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

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Protective Factors and Protective Capacities: Common Ground for Protecting Children and Strengthening Families [Infographic]

Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

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Quality Contact Casework Activities Worksheet

Browse casework activities to use before, during, and after a caseworker visit with children, youth, and families.

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Quality Worker-Parent Visits: A Tip Sheet for Supervisors and Managers

Learn how supervisors and program managers can assist child welfare caseworkers in conducting quality visits with parents.

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Resource List: Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace

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

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Safety Decision-Making: Using Protective Capacities and Protective Factors

Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

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Stories From the Field: Practical Strategies for Engaging Young People Recorded Webinar

Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

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Supporting Caregivers While Promoting Positive Outcomes: National Foster Care Month Recorded Webinar

Explore strategies to recruit and support caregivers, strengthen their voices, and work together with them to meet the needs of children and youth.

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Supporting Quality Contacts Through Supervisor-Worker Coaching

Explore coaching steps and tips supervisors can use to help workers strengthen skills and meet goals.

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The Child Welfare Worker Safety Guide

Get an overview of the issues related to the physical and emotional safety of child welfare workers.

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White House Convening on Developmentally Appropriate Services for Children, Youth, and Young Adults in Foster Care

Addressed developmentally appropriate services for youth in foster care and identified best practices for Federal support of States and territories in implementing provisions of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113-183).