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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. 

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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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A Tip Sheet for Child Welfare Workers - Linking Families to Health Insurance

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A Tip Sheet for Child Welfare Workers— Linking Families to Health Insurance

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

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Helps child welfare agencies respond to the need to alter practice and communication routines when “normal” child welfare services have been disrupted and better prepare agencies for future disruptions

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

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

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

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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Find meaningful and actionable connections among your agency’s strategic planning, review, and CQI efforts using this toolkit.