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Video

Building Onboarding and Training Programs for Success: Experiences in Tribal and County-Administered Agencies

Watch a discussion on focusing on job-specific skills (instead of best practices culture), training in a virtual environment, and integrating racial equity across child welfare training.

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Closing Remarks From Aysha E. Schomburg, Associate Commissioner, Children’s Bureau 

Learn about the Children’s Bureau’s commitment to racial and other equity in its work and the actions the Children’s Bureau is taking to advance racial equity in child welfare. 

Webinar

​Creating Partnership in Kinship Treatment Foster Care

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

Webinar

Developing Trusting Partnerships and Collaborating to Strengthen Families

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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Fostering Successful Opportunities for L.C.S.W. Supervision

 Watch as staff from the Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Family Services share their journey from development to implementation of a clinical supervision program.

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From Disparity to Unity: Transforming Child Welfare Through Racial Equity

A look at strategies, initiatives, and frameworks that infuse racial equity into everyday operations in the child welfare system.

Webinar

Integrated Planning and Monitoring: A Framework for Improving Practice 

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

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Leading With Empathy

Learn to be more intentional about creating opportunities to relate to the staff and families you serve and to infuse more empathy into your agency.

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Leaning Into the Wind: What We Know About the State of Child Welfare

Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

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Living Leadership: Valuing Our Lived Expertise

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

Webinar

Meaningfully Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Outcomes

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

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Organizational Readiness and Retention for People With Lived Expertise

Learn about organizational capacity to assess readiness and how it impacts retention of people with lived expertise in child welfare agencies.
 

Webinar

Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Continuous Quality Improvement, Part I: Youth and Family Engagement Strategies in CQI and Data Exploration

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

Webinar

Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Continuous Quality Improvement, Part II: Advancing Equity Through Data Exploration

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

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State Team Planning National Meeting Archived 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).