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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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Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

Publication Year 2023
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Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

Publication Year 2023
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Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Publication Year 2023
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s quality assurance system is functioning.

Publication Year 2023
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s statewide information system is functioning.

Publication Year 2023
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

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

Publication Year 2022
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Learn solid strategies for understanding and implementing the trauma-informed care provisions of the FFPSA.

Publication Year 2021
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Learn a research-informed framework for agencies to explore implementation of CQI systems across seven areas, including leadership support and modeling, staff and stakeholder engagement, communication, administrative structure, use of quality data, case record review process, and application of CQI findings.

Publication Year 2018
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Explore and reflect on the impact of, and opportunities to improve, assessment and decision-making processes. 

Publication Year 2017
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Learn how domestic violence documentation can help hold perpetrators accountable and promote survivor safety and well-being.

Publication Year 2017
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Explore coaching steps and tips supervisors can use to help workers strengthen skills and meet goals.

Publication Year 2017
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Learn how domestic violence and child maltreatment affect families and read about the risks, impacts, protective efforts, and other related topics.

Publication Year 2017