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Individual Perspective on Effectiveness in Child Welfare: Through the Court’s Lens

Hear about effectiveness in child welfare from a legal representative’s perspective.

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Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace 

Explore strategies to help child welfare organizations create equity in the workplace. 

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Leaning Into the Wind: What We Know About the State of Child Welfare

Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

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Listen, Engage, and Reflect: How to Authentically and Respectfully Engage Individuals With Lived Expertise in Storytelling Tip Sheet

Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

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Listen, Engage, and Reflect: How to Authentically and Respectfully Engage Individuals With Lived Experience in Storytelling Practices

Learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise. 

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Listen, Engage, and Reflect: How to Authentically and Respectfully Engage Individuals With Lived Expertise in Storytelling Resource List

Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

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Living Leadership: Valuing Our Lived Expertise Resource List

Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

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Living Leadership: Valuing Our Lived Expertise

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

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Maximizing Our Collective Impact

Explore how to incorporate knowledge into practice and systems to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families. 

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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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Opening Personal Stories Video

Explore and reflect on the impact of, and opportunities to improve, assessment and decision-making processes. 

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Organizational Strategies to Address Secondary Traumatic Stress in the Workforce

Explore strategies for providing ongoing support to staff working in a trauma-exposed environment.  

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Power in Partnerships: Prioritizing Lived Expertise in Child Welfare

Hear a summary of the 2022 CWVE themes and learn strategies for moving forward with prioritizing lived expertise in child welfare. 

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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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Productive Partnerships With Youth and Families: Commitment to Lived Expertise

Explore ways to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare.