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Get guidance, tips, and strategies for assessing agency culture and climate. 

Publication Year 2019
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Adapt proven strategies from this publication to improve specific areas of culture and that support collaborative development of an effective service array.

Publication Year 2019
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Adapt strategies from this publication to improve specific areas of culture and climate to support partnering with families after conducting an assessment.

Publication Year 2019
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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 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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This video highlights the story of a therapeutic foster care social worker in North Carolina and how her own experience in kinship care helps her connect with kinship caregivers and engage families.

Publication Year 2022
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Browse the themes and key takeaways from the How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options podcast series.

Publication Year 2019
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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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Read about our new Young Adult Consultant team member, find helpful information about the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), ways to engage persons with lived experience, and more!

Publication Year 2023
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Understand the role of coaching in supporting workers, including coaching functions, effectiveness, models, and strategies.

Publication Year 2017
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Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 CWVE Session 4 webinar, Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace. 

Publication Year 2021
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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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Explore the process of transitioning to a prevention-focused child welfare system from several perspectives, including those of a mother and son with lived experience and leaders who set the tone and direction for putting families at the center of child welfare work.

Publication Year 2021
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Watch this recorded webcast to learn what it means to build a complete system of foster care as a support to families, not a substitute for parents.

Publication Year 2020
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Gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of effective collaboration and how to avoid pitfalls when implementing partnerships for primary prevention.

Publication Year 2021