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Applying Safety Science Principles in Child Welfare Recorded Webinar

Learn about a framework for applying safety science to promote a culture of safety in child welfare agencies.

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Assessing and Measuring Well-Being Recorded Webinar

Learn about various instruments used to measure well-being for program, case planning, and evaluation purposes.

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Building Our Child Welfare System Together Infographic

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

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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).

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​Creating Partnership in Kinship Treatment Foster Care

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

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Developing Trusting Partnerships and Collaborating to Strengthen Families

Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

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Empowering Caregivers, Strengthening Families Learning Experience [Webinar]

Available on CapLEARN; registration required.

Watch and discuss what you hear from firsthand accounts of resource parents sharing the impact of support and collaborative partnerships when working with children, youth, and their families. Agencies can use the videos and discussion guide to explore the impact of agency staff, peer, family, and community support structures on resource parents. 

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Implementing Parent Partner Programs and Supporting Reunification: National Foster Care Month Recorded Webinar

Discover how parent partner programs support family reunification by guiding and motivating parents into constructive interactions with the child welfare system and courts.

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Introduction to the Center for the Study of Social Policy's Youth Thrive Framework

Find out how the Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors Framework supports agencies in their efforts to help youth achieve healthy development and well-being.

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Maximizing Health Reform and Medicaid Re-Design Initiatives to Sustain Innovation in Child Welfare Recorded Webinar

Explore the intersection of title IV-E waivers and other child welfare reforms with trends in healthcare reform.

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Post-Reunification Supports and Prevention of Reentry Into Out-of-Home Care: National Foster Care Month Recorded Webinar

Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

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Promising Practices That Support Pregnant and Parenting Youth Recorded Webinar

Explore promising practices in pregnancy, parenting, and prevention services and view practice examples, including evidence-based programs, in-home services, and specialized units.

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Protective Capacities and Protective Factors: Common Ground for Protecting Children and Strengthening Families Recorded Webinar

Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.

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Protective Factors and Protective Capacities: Common Ground for Protecting Children and Strengthening Families [Infographic]

Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

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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.