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Building Organizational Capacity in the Implementation of the Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard in Accordance With P.L. 113–183 Recorded Webinar

Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

Publication Year 2016
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Building Sustainable Change With Youth and Young Adults

Learn about the practice and systemic changes Hawaii, Indiana, and Westchester County, NY, made in partnership with their youth and young adult partners.

Publication Year 2022
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​Creating Partnership in Kinship Treatment Foster Care

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

Publication Year 2022
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Developing Trusting Partnerships and Collaborating to Strengthen Families

Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

Publication Year 2021
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Division X TA: Reflections and Opportunities

Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

Publication Year 2022
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Division X Technical Assistance Kick-Off

Hear how Division X Technical Assistance Targeted Assistance Projects (TAPs) helped child welfare agencies enhance policies and practices for youth and young adults.

Publication Year 2022
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Integrated Planning and Monitoring: A Framework for Improving Practice 

Get practical information about supporting coordinated strategic and long-term planning.

Publication Year 2019
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Meaningfully Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Outcomes

See how staff can boost their knowledge and skills for engaging families, community providers, and others.

Publication Year 2019
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Overview of P.L. 113-183: Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act's Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard Recorded Webinar

Learn how to support state planning and implementation of the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), which is required by the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183), to help children and youth in foster care experience normal childhood and adolescent activities. 

Publication Year 2022
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Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Continuous Quality Improvement, Part I: Youth and Family Engagement Strategies in CQI and Data Exploration

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

Publication Year 2022
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Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Continuous Quality Improvement, Part II: Advancing Equity Through Data Exploration

Learn sound methods for integrating a focus on race equity in data analysis and CQI. 

Publication Year 2022
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Resources for State Implementation of the Anti-Trafficking Provisions of P.L. 113–183 Recorded Webinar

Learn about resources to support child welfare agencies as they implement requirements of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183) that prevent sex trafficking and improve child welfare responses to trafficking victims. 

Publication Year 2016
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State Team Planning National Meeting Archived Webinar

Explore how child welfare agencies, legal and judicial stakeholders, prevention partners, and communities can work together to build prevention-focused systems, starting with jurisdictions' 2020–24 Child and Family Services Plans (CFSPs). 

Publication Year 2019
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Understanding Outcomes and Applying Lessons Learned: Monitoring and Evaluation in Implementation 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