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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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Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

Publication Year 2017
Video

Explore strategies for engaging and empowering fathers of color in child welfare. 

Publication Year 2021
Video

Learn how to effectively present data in digestible and actionable ways that lead to real change.

Publication Year 2021
Video

Hear about strategies for authentically partnering with youth, young adults, Tribes, families, and communities of color to inform and improve child welfare research, practice, and policy.

Publication Year 2021
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Learn to use the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance for a state on all or selected statewide data indicators.

Publication Year 2022
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Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Publication Year 2022
Video

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

Publication Year 2022
PDF

Review the steps for running the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance on statewide data indicators. 

Publication Year 2022
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Set the groundwork for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the CFSR.

Publication Year 2023
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2022
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Explore resources related to Effectively Engaging Fathers of Color video. 

Publication Year 2021