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Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

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Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services. 

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Explore additional resources on how to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare. 

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

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

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

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Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

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Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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Discover how the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) has been implemented in one state to promote normalcy for children and youth in foster care.

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Explore additional resources to learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

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Explore additional resources to discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare.