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Quality Matters: Youth Visit

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits a 16-year-old youth months after a placement.

Publication Year 2017
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Quality Matters: Engaging With the Resource Parent

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits with a resource parent shortly after child placement.

Publication Year 2017
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Quality Matters: Biological Mother Visit

This video highlights engagement as the caseworker visits a mother after her children were removed from her home.

Publication Year 2017
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Quality Matters: Biological Father Visit

This video highlights engagement as the caseworker visits a father in the county jail after his children were removed from his home.

Publication Year 2017
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Quality Matters: Supervisory Visits

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker and supervisor work together on the family’s case.

Publication Year 2017
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Kinship Family: You Get a Call, Do You Want These Kids?

Bruce and Brenda have been married for 33 years and have four daughters. From 2006 to 2009, they provided a kinship placement for their four grandchildren. In 2010, the couple adopted Bruce (now 18 years old), Tre’Nae (now 15 years old), Mason (now 13 years old), and Kiaunna (now 10 years old).

Publication Year 2016
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Adoptive Family: DNA Doesn’t Define a Family—Love Does

Frankie is 14 years old and lives with his sister, brothers, and moms. He and his sister were adopted when they were 2 years old and 4 years old, respectively. He loves spending time with his aunts, uncles, and cousins and loves being part of a big family.

Publication Year 2016