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Community-Based Provider: Empowering Caregiver Decision-Making

Shares Stephen’s story about being a community-based provider and policymaker in Florida, the need for laws that empower caregiver decision-making, creating Florida’s reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), and the effect RPPS and normalcy laws can have on foster care.

Publication Year 2016
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Considerations for LGBTQ Children and Youth in Foster Care: Exploring Normalcy as It Relates to P.L. 113–183

Get informed about creating normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care and browse relevant examples.

Publication Year 2016
Webinar

Considerations for LGBTQ Children and Youth in Foster Care: Exploring Normalcy as It Relates to P.L. 113–183 Recorded Webinar

Learn about normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care in the context of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183).

Publication Year 2016
PDF

Creating an Affirming Culture and Climate for LGBTQIA2S+ Children and Young People in Child Welfare

Learn how to support LGBTQIA2S+ children and young people at a child welfare agency.

Publication Year 2024
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CWVE 2022 Learning Experience Discussion Guide

Use this discussion guide with the CWVE 2022 videos to view a description of each topic, access individual reflection questions to facilitate personal, on-demand learning, and explore conversation starters and team activities with child welfare staff and collaborative partners.   

Publication Year 2022
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Defining Quality Contacts

Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

Publication Year 2017
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Dezzie's Story - National Reunification Month 2022

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.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Do No Harm: Engaging Parent and Kinship Families

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Publication Year 2022
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Engaging Expecting and Parenting Teens in Child Welfare Resource List

Explore additional resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Engaging Expecting and Parenting Teens in Child Welfare

Discover services and resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare. 

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

Evidence-Based Practice Implementation: Responding to the Organizational and Workforce Challenges Recorded Webinar

Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

Publication Year 2015
PDF

Foster and Adoptive Parent Licensing, Recruitment, and Retention: Systemic Factor Data Planning Worksheet

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

Publication Year 2023
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Having the Normalcy Conversation: A Guide for Discussing Developmentally Appropriate Services for Children, Youth, and Young Adults in Foster Care

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Publication Year 2016
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Having the Normalcy Conversation: Youth Engagement

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

Publication Year 2017
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Having the Normalcy Conversation: Sample Agenda

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

Publication Year 2017