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Learn how leadership engagement can drive foundational change through the CFSR.

Publication Year 2024
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Listen as leaders from tribal communities share their stories and experiences in driving transformative change within child welfare systems.

Publication Year 2024
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Learn how to foster psychological safety on child welfare teams, promote bravery, and cultivate resilient and supportive workplace environments at child welfare agencies.

Publication Year 2024
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Listen as Capacity Building Center for States Family Consultants and Young Adult Consultants reflect on the key themes and learnings from day two of the 2024 CWVE.

Publication Year 2024
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Listen as Capacity Building Center for States Family Consultants and Young Adult Consultants reflect on the key themes and learnings from day one of the 2024 CWVE.

Publication Year 2024
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Hop into the car for a road trip with South Carolina's Child Welfare Services Division. Hear how they left a climate driven by compliance and fear and made their way to a new culture.

Publication Year 2024
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In an empowering narrative of resilience and leadership, this video spotlights the inspiring journeys of two Black women who have ascended to executive roles in child welfare.

Publication Year 2024
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In this video, leaders of the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services discuss the positive impact of collaboration between child welfare and mental health systems.

Publication Year 2024
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In this presentation, viewers will learn about the University of Kentucky’s innovative recruitment, education, and retention program for child welfare workforce.

Publication Year 2024
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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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Watch the Change and Implementation in Practice: Overview video to learn how key steps, tasks, and concepts fit together to support your agency’s change initiatives. 

Publication Year 2022
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Learn about the Children’s Bureau’s commitment to racial and other equity in its work and the actions the Children’s Bureau is taking to advance racial equity in child welfare. 

Publication Year 2021
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Explores the tasks of refining and implementing a sustainability plan to have a clear and intentional roadmap for sustainability, identify the resources available or needed, and identify the commitment and supports that will help.

Publication Year 2019
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Explores the task of identifying, as a team, if an intervention is effective enough to spread, needs adjustment to improve, or should be discontinued if appropriate.

Publication Year 2019
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Examines the tasks of sharing findings and recommendations to inform stakeholders of the implementation progress, guide decision-making about the future of the intervention, support advocating for resources, and expand the knowledge base.

Publication Year 2019