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CWVE 2022 Learning Experience Discussion Guide

Use this discussion guide with the CWVE 2022 videos to view a description of each topic, access individual reflection questions to facilitate personal, on-demand learning, and explore conversation starters and team activities with child welfare staff and collaborative partners.   

Publication Year 2022
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Defining Quality Contacts

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

Publication Year 2017
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Do No Harm: Engaging Parent and Kinship Families

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Publication Year 2022
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Engaging Expecting and Parenting Teens in Child Welfare Resource List

Explore additional resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare.

Publication Year 2022
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Engaging Expecting and Parenting Teens in Child Welfare

Discover services and resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare. 

Publication Year 2022
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Engaging Faith-Based Communities to Achieve Timely Permanency for Children and Youth Waiting to Be Adopted

See strategies and examples for partnering with faith-based communities and leaders on behalf of children and youth in foster care waiting to be adopted.

Publication Year 2019
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Engaging Nongovernmental Organizations to Achieve Timely Permanency for Children and Youth Waiting to Be Adopted

Learn how leveraging NGO connections in the community can help child welfare systems be more flexible and adaptable in achieving program goals.

Publication Year 2019
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Engaging Philanthropic Partners to Achieve Timely Permanency for Children and Youth Waiting to Be Adopted

Get ideas for working with community foundations, endowments, and charitable trusts to improve outcomes for children and youth.

Publication Year 2019
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Evidence-Based Practice Implementation: Responding to the Organizational and Workforce Challenges Recorded Webinar

Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

Publication Year 2015
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Foster and Adoptive Parent Licensing, Recruitment, and Retention: Systemic Factor Data Planning Worksheet

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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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.

Publication Year 2017
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Having the Normalcy Conversation: A Guide for Discussing Developmentally Appropriate Services for Children, Youth, and Young Adults in Foster Care

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Publication Year 2016
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Having the Normalcy Conversation: Youth Engagement

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

Publication Year 2017
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Implementation Planning and Capacity Building Module 7

Examines the task of building work plan activities to get the intervention ready before implementation begins.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Implementation Planning and Capacity Building Module 1

Provides an overview of essential functions for preparing for implementation, planning for capacity building, and developing an implementation plan. The video also considers how tasks work together to support change efforts.

Publication Year 2019