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The Center for States provides research assistance and responds to information requests on building capacity in child welfare.

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Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

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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. 

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Use this assessment tool to identify strengths and areas for growth to enhance your team’s psychological safety.
 

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Use this guide for tips, and strategies concerning the critical role leadership plays in creating and sustaining positive organizational culture.

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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

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Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

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Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

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Learn effective strategies to collect, analyze, and use data related to caseworker visits.

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​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

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Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

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Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

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Explore concepts, terms, and foundational information about psychological safety on child welfare teams.

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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s quality assurance system is functioning.

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Learn sound methods for integrating a focus on race equity in data analysis and CQI. 

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Browse a list of organizations that offer training activities with defined learning objectives, including self-paced e-learnings, webinars, or videos.