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Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

Publication Year 2022
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Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

Publication Year 2022
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Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

Publication Year 2022
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Learn about State Liaison Officers, who they are, their roles, responsibilities, and the Center for States resources available to them.

Publication Year 2018
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Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

Publication Year 2023
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s statewide information system is functioning.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore tips and strategies to effectively engage and sustain the involvement of families and youth at the agency level. 

Publication Year 2019
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Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

Publication Year 2021
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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. 

Publication Year 2022
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Ensure that youth and young adults exiting foster care can obtain their vital documents before transitioning from foster care.

Publication Year 2024
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Explore additional resources to discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare. 

Publication Year 2022
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Addressed developmentally appropriate services for youth in foster care and identified best practices for Federal support of States and territories in implementing provisions of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113-183).

Publication Year 2015
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Explore the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity that supports engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care.

Publication Year 2017