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Demonstrates the importance of collaboration and trusting relationships between a grandmother, a resource parent, and a social worker.

Publication Year 2019
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Describes the complex nature and special support needs of kinship care. 

Publication Year 2019
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Portrays a young woman's story of growing up in foster care, from 5 months through 7 years old, and the difficulties of transitioning back to her family. 

Publication Year 2019
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Watch this video to learn more about state experiences communicating with partners about prevention. 

Publication Year 2021
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Watch this video to learn more about how states are engaging people with lived experience in prevention planning. 

Publication Year 2021
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Watch this video to learn more about state experiences building capacity for prevention.

Publication Year 2021
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Watch this video to learn more about how states are selecting and implementing prevention programs.

Publication Year 2021
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Watch this video to learn more about how a vision for prevention influences the development of a prevention plan.

Publication Year 2021
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Watch this video to learn more about prevention planning advice and lessons learned from state child welfare leaders.

Publication Year 2021
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Illustrates the four shifts that need to occur at the organizational and practice levels to establish a youth welfare system that meets the needs of youth in foster care.

Publication Year 2018
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Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

Publication Year 2021
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Offers guidelines and practical suggestions for shifting from a child-focused system that is often reactive, case plan-driven, and protection-focused to a youth-focused system that is proactive, youth-driven, developmentally framed, and normalcy focused.

Publication Year 2016