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PDF

Explore strategies for redesigning the child welfare service array to meet the needs of youth and young adults currently and formerly in foster care.

Publication Year 2023
Video

Explores the tasks of routine monitoring and checking in with identified benchmarks or short-term outcomes.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Reveals the complexity of family dynamics through the experiences of Shary, a kinship parent caring for her niece, Brianna, and grandson, Random. In the first digital story, Brianna seeks to reconnect the pieces in her family puzzle. The second digital story highlights Random's unflappable resilience despite medical challenges.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video builds awareness of what the court sim lab looks like and what the experience is like for participants.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video builds awareness of what the medical sim lab looks like and what the experience is like for participants.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video describes the debriefing process and explain how it is integral to simulation training.

Publication Year 2020
Podcast
Publication Year 2021
Video

This video builds awareness of how realistic environments contribute to learning.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video shows the experience of trainees engaging with the family actors in a safe space.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video builds an understanding of key considerations for developing and scaling up a simulation training effort and how to overcome common challenges.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video develops an understanding of key considerations for sustaining and continuously improving a simulation training effort and how to overcome common challenges.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video increases familiarity with the benefits of simulation, including how simulation can strengthen worker skills and improve worker confidence and readiness for practice. 

Publication Year 2020
Video

Hear from a family about the challenges of dealing with an autism diagnosis and other issues while navigating the child welfare system.

Publication Year 2017
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.

Publication Year 2015
PDF

The journeys of children, youth, and families in child welfare are seldom a straight line. Typically, there are highs and lows and winding paths in between

Publication Year 2020