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Explore strategies for redesigning the child welfare service array to meet the needs of youth and young adults currently and formerly in foster care.

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Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

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

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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. 

Podcast

Explore a family-focused program that embodies many of the changes that Kentucky wants to see throughout its child welfare system in this podcast. The START, program demonstrates a shift in organizational culture to focus on family and serves as an example of a truly collaborative team that uses early intervention and a shared decision-making model to work with families.

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

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

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Use this brief to help your agency coordinate strategic and long-term planning, monitoring, and reporting processes—such as the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR)—with agency continuous quality improvement (CQI).

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

Webinar

​​Examine how implementation science principles can be applied to decisions about staging and scaling up new programs and practices at a child welfare agency.​ 

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Explore sex trafficking prevention best practices for implementing provisions of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113-183).

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Get an overview of the issues related to the physical and emotional safety of child welfare workers.

Video

Explore how child welfare leaders and decision makers can communicate data effectively.