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Watch a discussion on focusing on job-specific skills (instead of best practices culture), training in a virtual environment, and integrating racial equity across child welfare training.

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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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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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 Watch as staff from the Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Family Services share their journey from development to implementation of a clinical supervision program.

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A look at strategies, initiatives, and frameworks that infuse racial equity into everyday operations in the child welfare system.

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Learn about how Jamall reunified with family members and enjoyed family cookouts and holidays with the help of Jennifer and the Family Finder program through Kinnect Ohio.

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Learn about Jamall’s reunification with his mother, grandmother, and other family members through Kinnect Ohio’s Finding Family program.

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Learn about Jennifer’s commitment to facilitating belonging and lifelong support for children in foster care through the Kinnect Ohio Family Finding program.

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Learn to be more intentional about creating opportunities to relate to the staff and families you serve and to infuse more empathy into your agency.

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Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

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

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Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.

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Learn about organizational capacity to assess readiness and how it impacts retention of people with lived expertise in child welfare agencies.
 

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Explore the benefits of and strategies for recruiting and integrating people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

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Explore how to use human resources data to address worker turnover with guides, resources, and videos from the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development.