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Hear about the challenges and experiences of an adoptive family and how they created belonging, healthy development, and normal experiences.

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Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

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Examine the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program's purpose, objectives, history, funding, and requirements. 

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Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

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Browse a list of organizations that offer training activities with defined learning objectives, including self-paced e-learnings, webinars, or videos.

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Explore models and approaches for targeting safety outcomes.

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Use this brief to explore actionable strategies for meaningful partner engagement in child welfare agency strategic planning, monitoring, and review processes.

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Use this brief to help your agency coordinate strategic and long-term planning, monitoring, and reporting processes—such as the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR)—with agency continuous quality improvement (CQI).

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Explore the key components of engaging youth and families in individual permanency planning.

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Listen in as parents and workers share their perspectives on the value of and approaches to improving comprehensive assessment of parents. 

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Explore how caseworkers, supervisors, and stakeholders can use data and feedback to improve child welfare practice. 

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Explore how child welfare leaders and decision makers can communicate data effectively. 

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Support agency staff in the authentic engagement of youth and families in individual permanency planning processes.

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The journeys of children, youth, and families in child welfare are seldom a straight line. Typically, there are highs and lows and winding paths in between

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Get a detailed overview of unregulated transfers of custody, covering risk of harm, screening, ICPC violations, and more.