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Learn how child welfare agencies can transfer select operations online and out of a central worksite.

Video

Learn to be more intentional about creating opportunities to relate to the staff and families you serve and to infuse more empathy into your agency.

Video

Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

Video

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

PDF

Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Webinar

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

Webinar

Pair this recorded webinar with the discussion guide to learn caregiver and birth parent partnerships and trauma-informed visitation. 

Video

Learn about organizational capacity to assess readiness and how it impacts retention of people with lived expertise in child welfare agencies.
 

PDF

Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

Webinar

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

Webinar

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

Webinar

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

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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.

PDF

Explore resources related to Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace video. 

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.