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

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Examine the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program's purpose, objectives, history, funding, and requirements. 

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Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.

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Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

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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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See how listening and relatability helped build trust between a youth and his attorney.

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Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

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Underscores the importance of consistency and encouragement in trusting relationships. A Fostering Success peer mentor gave impactful advice to the youth she mentored: Stop listening to the people who don’t believe in you.

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

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

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

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

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Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

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.

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Demonstrates how showing up and listening are foundational to developing a nourishing relationship with youth. A young woman describes the constant support she and her family received from a social worker as she evolved from a youth into a teen mom and an advocate.