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Highlights the rewards and challenges of providing permanency and stability for relative children with differing needs. In this video, a single grandparent of five discusses her experience becoming a kinship caregiver, foster parent, and then legal guardian for her daughter's children, support the caseworker provided for her to become a certified foster parent, and the joy of watching her grandchildren thrive.

Publication Year 2018
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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.

Publication Year 2024
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Discover strategies for using data to build evidence, engage youth, families, and other partners, and move toward racial equity in child welfare. ​

Publication Year 2021
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This video highlights the story of a kinship specialist with the New York City Children’s Services and how she collaborates with fellow child welfare agencies in identifying kinship guardians to result in successful kin placement.

Publication Year 2022
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Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

Publication Year 2021
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Discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare. 

Publication Year 2022
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Explore actions that can lead to building authentic, collaborative, and prevention-focused child welfare systems.

Publication Year 2020
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Brandon is a 21-year-old alumnus of the foster care system. He was in the foster care system for about 10 years and serves as a foster care advocate, working in State government for the last 3 years. He feels that normal activities for all youth in foster care should include getting a driver’s license, going on out-of-State and overnight trips, and participating in sports.

Publication Year 2016
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Learn how Daryle reconnected with this Tribe after being separated from his cultural background in foster care.

Publication Year 2016
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Hear how Cortez, and adoptee, overcame his struggles to build an identity in a changing environment.

Publication Year 2016
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Desiree is an alumna of the foster care system. She lived with the same foster care family for 14 years. She entered foster care with three of her siblings, and wants to use her experiences growing up in foster care to make a difference for those still in the system.

Publication Year 2017
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Watch as Amnoni relates her experience in the foster car system, including her struggles and quest for stability and normalcy.

Publication Year 2017
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Hear Raven's foster care story, the challenges of being separated from her brother, and the value of support.

Publication Year 2017