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Learn how supervisors and program managers can assist child welfare caseworkers in conducting quality visits with parents.

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Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator reentry to foster care.

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Browse a list of organizations that offer training activities with defined learning objectives, including self-paced e-learnings, webinars, or videos.

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Is your team responding to or recovering from a disaster? Are you looking for ways to prepare more effectively in the future? Come together to watch “Rising to the Challenge: Lessons Learned in Responding to Disasters” and hear directly from youth, families, and agencies with lived expertise tackling the immediate crisis of disasters.

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Explore models and approaches for targeting safety outcomes.

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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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Use this brief to help your agency coordinate strategic and long-term planning, monitoring, and reporting processes—such as the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR)—with agency continuous quality improvement (CQI).

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Use this brief to explore actionable strategies for meaningful partner engagement in child welfare agency strategic planning, monitoring, and review processes.

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Explore the key components of engaging youth and families in individual permanency planning.

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Explore coaching steps and tips supervisors can use to help workers strengthen skills and meet goals.

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Get an overview of the issues related to the physical and emotional safety of child welfare workers.

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Support agency staff in the authentic engagement of youth and families in individual permanency planning processes.

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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

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Get a detailed overview of unregulated transfers of custody, covering risk of harm, screening, ICPC violations, and more.