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Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

Publication Year 2021
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Learn about the importance of successful collaboration and engagement for implementing prevention-focused systems.

Publication Year 2021
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Watch this recorded webinar to learn how other jurisdictions encourage kinship care placements and then discuss kinship support with your team.

Publication Year 2021
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Explore how caseworkers, supervisors, and stakeholders can use data and feedback to improve child welfare practice. 

Publication Year 2021
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Explore how child welfare leaders and decision makers can communicate data effectively. 

Publication Year 2021
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Explore how child welfare leaders, managers, and supervisors can motivate their staff to use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Publication Year 2021
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Explore how frontline child welfare professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Publication Year 2021
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Explore the role of all staff as discerning consumers of evidence. Learn how data and information from children, youth, and families can be used to inform practice at every level of the organization. 

Publication Year 2021
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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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This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits a 16-year-old youth months after a placement.

Publication Year 2017
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This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits with a resource parent shortly after child placement.

Publication Year 2017
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This video highlights engagement as the caseworker visits a mother after her children were removed from her home.

Publication Year 2017
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This video highlights engagement as the caseworker visits a father in the county jail after his children were removed from his home.

Publication Year 2017
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This video highlights engagement as a caseworker and supervisor work together on the family’s case.

Publication Year 2017