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Explore additional resources for engaging individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more.

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Explore how frontline child welfare professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

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Explore how child welfare leaders, managers, and supervisors can motivate their staff to use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

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Explore additional resources to learn how to accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

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Learn about the importance of successful collaboration and engagement for implementing prevention-focused systems.

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Explore additional resources and learn strategies for moving forward with prioritizing lived expertise in child welfare.

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Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

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Explore additional resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare.

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Explore additional resources to learn about the challenges of engaging difficult-to-reach populations of youth and young adults.

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Explore the process of transitioning to a prevention-focused child welfare system from several perspectives, including those of a mother and son with lived experience and leaders who set the tone and direction for putting families at the center of child welfare work.

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Gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of effective collaboration and how to avoid pitfalls when implementing partnerships for primary prevention.

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Explore the role of all staff as discerning consumers of evidence. Learn how data and information from children, youth, and families can be used to inform practice at every level of the organization. 

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

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Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services.