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Use this discussion guide with the “Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Child and Family Services Review” video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Publication Year 2023
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Use this discussion guide with the “Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Family First Prevention Services Act” video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Publication Year 2023
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Use this discussion guide with the “Reflecting on Racial Equity and Prevention-Focused Systems” video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Publication Year 2023
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Use this discussion guide with the "Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Child Welfare Workforce" video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore information and strategies for advancing racial equity through problem exploration.

Publication Year 2023
Podcast

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

Publication Year 2023
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Find out where evidence-based programs and services are being implemented to prevent children from entering foster care.

Publication Year 2023
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Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Publication Year 2022
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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.

Publication Year 2022
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Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Publication Year 2022
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Learn about the Capacity Building Center for States’ diversity, racial equity, and inclusion terms and definitions and the importance of shared language to advance equity. 

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

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

Publication Year 2022
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Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the 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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Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

Publication Year 2022