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Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

Webinar

Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

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Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

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Examine new software and technology innovations, which provide better, more integrated services and cut costs for states and jurisdictions.

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

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Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

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Explore and discuss state performance on CFSR statewide data indicators.

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Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

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Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

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Explore information and get guidance about sex trafficking and identification of sex trafficking victims.

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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.

Webinar

Get practical information about supporting coordinated strategic and long-term planning.

Video

Explore strategies to help child welfare organizations create equity in the workplace. 

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Learn about applications that can make information gathering more efficient, increase useful data, and help you better understand those you serve.