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

Publication Year 2024
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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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Learn why the Indian Child Welfare Act and the historical trauma Indigenous people have experienced are important to understand when working with Indigenous families. 

Publication Year 2022
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Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

Publication Year 2021
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Illustrates the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity supporting engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care. Each of the four segments succinctly defines an element of organizational capacity building for youth engagement.

Publication Year 2021
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Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

Publication Year 2020
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Adapt strategies from this publication to improve specific areas of culture and climate to support partnering with families after conducting an assessment.

Publication Year 2019
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Adapt proven strategies from this publication to improve specific areas of culture and that support collaborative development of an effective service array.

Publication Year 2019
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Browse the themes and key takeaways from the How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options podcast series.

Publication Year 2019
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Get guidance, tips, and strategies for assessing agency culture and climate. 

Publication Year 2019
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This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits a 16-year-old youth months after a placement.

Publication Year 2017
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This reference guide describes the six short videos and paired discussion guides that demonstrate what quality visits look like in practice within one family system over a period of time. 

Publication Year 2017
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Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging a supervisor in coaching for family visits.

Publication Year 2017
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Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging youth after removal from their parental home.

Publication Year 2017
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Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging resource parents to collaborate around caring for children in foster care.

Publication Year 2017