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Menu for Youth Engagement Guide

Examine the benefits of engaging youth voice in practice, peer support, and system-level change.

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Methods and Strategies to Engage People With Lived Experience Resource List

Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services. 

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Perspectives on Normalcy Handout: You Get a Call, "Do You Want These Kids?"

This handout is part of the series, “Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions.” It is designed to facilitate discussion about the issues raised in the video, “Kinship Adoption: You Get a Call, ‘Do You Want These Kids?’”

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Perspectives on Normalcy Handout: DNA Doesn't Define Family, Love Does

Hear about the challenges and experiences of an adoptive family and how they created belonging, healthy development, and normal experiences.

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Productive Partnerships With Youth and Families: Commitment to Lived Expertise Resource List

Explore additional resources on how to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare. 

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​​Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Child Welfare Workforce Discussion Guide​

Use this discussion guide with the "Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Child Welfare Workforce" video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

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Setting the Stage: Creating the Space for People With Lived Expertise to Thrive Resource List

Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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Setting the Stage: Creating the Space for People With Lived Expertise to Thrive Sample Scenario

Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

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Setting the Stage: Creating the Space for People With Lived Expertise to Thrive Tip Sheet

Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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State Perspectives on Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standards Recorded Webinar

Discover how the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) has been implemented in one state to promote normalcy for children and youth in foster care.

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Strategies for Authentic Integration of Family and Youth Voice in Child Welfare

Explore tips and strategies to effectively engage and sustain the involvement of families and youth at the agency level. 

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Supporting Transgender Children and Youth Involved in the Court System

Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

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The Evidence for Strengthening Families

Read about the value of collaboration as the key to prevention, safety, and long-term stability for children and families.

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The Power of Lived Expertise in Research and Evaluation: Child Welfare Edition Resource List

Explore additional resources to learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

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Visioning for Prevention: Conversation Starters

Engage staff and partners with activities in this guide to start a dialogue and create a vision for a more prevention-focused child welfare system.