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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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Watch a discussion on focusing on job-specific skills (instead of best practices culture), training in a virtual environment, and integrating racial equity across child welfare training.

Publication Year 2024
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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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 Watch as staff from the Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Family Services share their journey from development to implementation of a clinical supervision program.

Publication Year 2024
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A look at strategies, initiatives, and frameworks that infuse racial equity into everyday operations in the child welfare system.

Publication Year 2024
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This video highlights the story of a program manager and lead navigator for the Montana Kinship Navigator Program and how her own experience caring for a nephew helps her better support and connect with kinship caregivers and families.

Publication Year 2022
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This video highlights the story of a foster care specialist and how her experience with her grandparents’ care helps her support and guide kinship caregivers.

Publication Year 2022
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This video highlights the work of the Deputy Commissioner of the New York foster care system and the kinship care strategies her agency implements.

Publication Year 2022
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This video highlights the work of an Ohio kinship navigator and her experience supporting families as they navigate kinship care.

Publication Year 2022
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This video highlights the story of an Ohio kinship navigator and how she supports kinship families by identifying resources to support them as they navigate kinship care.

Publication Year 2022
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This video highlights the story of a kinship caregiver and how resources available to her family helped them achieve stability.

Publication Year 2022
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This video highlights the story of a case manager for the South Carolina Department of Social Services and her work identifying and licensing kinship caregivers for children in care.

Publication Year 2022
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This video highlights the story of a grandmother's experience as a kinship caregiver and her work managing the Kinship Connections peer mentor program in Rhode Island.

Publication Year 2022
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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.

Publication Year 2020
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Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

Publication Year 2024