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Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator placement stability.

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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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Defines prepermanancy services for prospective adoptive and guardianship families and raises awareness about the need for more prepermanency services supports alongside postpermanency supports.

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

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Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator reentry to foster care.

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Use this discussion guide with the "Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Child Welfare Workforce" video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action. 

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Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

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Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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

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Get an overview of the issues related to the physical and emotional safety of child welfare workers.

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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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Adapt  policies and practices to meet the growing needs of LGBTQ children, youth, and families. 

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