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Hear about the challenges and experiences of an adoptive family and how they created belonging, healthy development, and normal experiences.

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Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

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Explore additional resources on how to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare. 

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Explore ways to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare.

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Examine the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program's purpose, objectives, history, funding, and requirements. 

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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. 

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See how listening and relatability helped build trust between a youth and his attorney.

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Underscores the importance of consistency and encouragement in trusting relationships. A Fostering Success peer mentor gave impactful advice to the youth she mentored: Stop listening to the people who don’t believe in you.

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Discover strategies to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

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Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

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Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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Discover how the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) has been implemented in one state to promote normalcy for children and youth in foster care.

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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).