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PDF

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

Publication Year 2024
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2022
Video

Explore ways that jurisdictions can integrate strategies to promote equity in continuous quality improvement (CQI) and evaluation efforts. 

Publication Year 2021
PDF

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

Publication Year 2020
Video

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

Publication Year 2017
PDF

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
PDF

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

Publication Year 2017
PDF

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

Publication Year 2017
PDF

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
PDF

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

Publication Year 2017
Video

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits with a resource parent shortly after child placement.

Publication Year 2017
PDF

Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging the biological mother after removal of the child or children.

Publication Year 2017
Video

This video highlights engagement as the caseworker visits a mother after her children were removed from her home.

Publication Year 2017
PDF

Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging the biological father after removal of the child from the home.

Publication Year 2017
Video

This video highlights engagement as the caseworker visits a father in the county jail after his children were removed from his home.

Publication Year 2017