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Webinar

Build skills in community engagement in quality improvement and enhanced data exploration. 

Publication Year 2022
PDF

Explore resources related to Effectively Engaging Fathers of Color video. 

Publication Year 2021
Video

Discover strategies to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

Publication Year 2022
PDF

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

Publication Year 2022
PDF

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

Publication Year 2022
PDF

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

Publication Year 2022
PDF

Read about the value of collaboration as the key to prevention, safety, and long-term stability for children and families.

Publication Year 2021
Webinar

This recorded webinar includes examples from the field about how agencies have coordinated program monitoring, fidelity assessment, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation activities and used strategies for developing and implementing an evaluation plan.

Publication Year 2019
Podcast

Listen to Indiana’s child welfare partners talk about making the shift to an upstream approach to prevention services possible in this short podcast. 

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Engage staff and partners with activities in this guide to start a dialogue and create a vision for a more prevention-focused child welfare system.

Publication Year 2021
Podcast

Listen to an attorney and a parent ally, both partners with Washington State’s child welfare system, explain how parent partner programs are essential to prevention services.

Publication Year 2022