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Explore strategies to engage individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more. 

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Learn strategies for accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

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Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

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Discover strategies for co-creating and sharing power with youth and families in child welfare.

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Explore ways that jurisdictions can integrate strategies to promote equity in continuous quality improvement (CQI) and evaluation efforts. 

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Learn about the values of cultural competence, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and how to implement them at a child welfare agency.  

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Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia talk about how they work with partners to use their different data lenses to understand the needs of families and to structure a set of services to best meet the full spectrum of needs. In Kentucky, child welfare agency leaders describe the process of finding the story behind the numbers to transform their system.

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Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

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

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Explore strategies for engaging and empowering fathers of color in child welfare. 

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Learn about the challenges of engaging difficult-to-reach populations of youth and young adults. 

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Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

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Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

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Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

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Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.