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

Webinar

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

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

Video

Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and 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. 

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Learn about resources to support child welfare agencies as they implement requirements of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183) that prevent sex trafficking and improve child welfare responses to trafficking victims. 

Podcast

Explore a family-focused program that embodies many of the changes that Kentucky wants to see throughout its child welfare system in this podcast. The START, program demonstrates a shift in organizational culture to focus on family and serves as an example of a truly collaborative team that uses early intervention and a shared decision-making model to work with families.

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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Explore sex trafficking prevention best practices for implementing provisions of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113-183).