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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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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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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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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

Explore ways 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 Resource List

Explore additional resources on how to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare. 

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Setting the Stage: Creating the Space for People With Lived Expertise to Thrive Resource List

Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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Setting the Stage: Creating the Space for People With Lived Expertise to Thrive

Discover strategies to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

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Setting the Stage: Creating the Space for People With Lived Expertise to Thrive Sample Scenario

Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

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Setting the Stage: Creating the Space for People With Lived Expertise to Thrive Tip Sheet

Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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The Necessity of Nuance: The Impact of Lived Expertise

Learn how people with lived expertise have used their experiences to advocate for changes in approach, practice, and policy in child welfare. 

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The Power of Lived Expertise in Research and Evaluation: Child Welfare Edition Resource List

Explore additional resources to learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

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The Power of Lived Expertise in Research and Evaluation: Child Welfare Edition

Learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

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What Is Still Needed for Fathers to Thrive in Child Welfare?

Discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare. 

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What Is Still Needed for Fathers to Thrive in Child Welfare? Resource List

Explore additional resources to discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare.