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Webinar

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

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This video highlights the story of a family specialist in Ohio who partners with families to identify safe and healthy kinship connections that empower children, youth, and families.

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This video highlights the story of a kinship foster parent and her experience navigating the kinship caregiver process in New York City by using the Kinship Guardian Assistance Program (KinGAP).

Webinar

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

Webinar

Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.

Infographic

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

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. 

PDF

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

Video

The video highlights the story of a kinship caregiver and how becoming a licensed foster parent working with social services and her local child welfare agency resulted in better support and resources.

Video

Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

Webinar

Explore how child welfare agencies, legal and judicial stakeholders, prevention partners, and communities can work together to build prevention-focused systems, starting with jurisdictions' 2020–24 Child and Family Services Plans (CFSPs). 

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This video highlights the story of a school social worker in Rhode Island and her experience becoming a foster parent to a student who did not have a relative placement.

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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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This video highlights the story of a family specialist in Ohio and her experience working with families to successfully place children with kin.