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Learn how kinship care is improving outcomes for families involved with the child welfare system. Read more.

Don't miss our September webinar on Culture and Bias in the Child Welfare System presented by Kelly Browe Olson, JD, LLM and Nolanda Robert MS, CCFC. Families in the child welfare system tend to struggle with addiction and poverty and are thrown into further crisis, instead of being helped by a system that is meant to decrease crises. Are there best practices for dealing with cultural biases in child welfare? What are the main problems that staff and families face systemically? Are there biases that families and professionals face in the child welfare system, and are there additional barriers that families of color deal with when trying to navigate the system? Finally, how can we help families and professionals decrease cultural biases while improving system inequities. Culture and Bias in the Child Welfare System September 14, 2023 (1PM Eastern) More Information and Registration: https://lnkd.in/gB6xxnhb

Don't miss our September webinar on Culture and Bias in the Child Welfare System presented by Kelly Browe Olson, JD, LLM and Nolanda Robert MS, CCFC. Families in the child welfare system tend to struggle with addiction and poverty and are thrown into further crisis, instead of being helped by a system that is meant to decrease crises. Are there best practices for dealing with cultural biases in child welfare? What are the main problems that staff and families face systemically? Are there biases that families and professionals face in the child welfare system, and are there additional barriers that families of color deal with when trying to navigate the system? Finally, how can we help families and professionals decrease cultural biases while improving system inequities. Culture and Bias in the Child Welfare System September 14, 2023 (1PM Eastern) More Information and Registration: https://lnkd.in/gB6xxnhb

How do child welfare agency leaders view economic need and child welfare system involvement? How do they coordinate with other human service systems to offer economic and concrete supports such as food, stable #Housing, and #ChildCare? Chapin Hall teamed up with APHSA -- American Public Human Services Association to answer these questions. We conducted a national landscape survey of child welfare leaders to learn how they perceive support options, service coordination and tracking, funding, and barriers to meeting families’ needs. Explore findings for insights and recommendations for improving policy and coordination between child welfare and public benefits: https://lnkd.in/gy8wyEWQ #ConcreteSupports

Great insights in this report on factors in child welfare intervention volumes! The Chapin Hall survey highlights an understanding of the relationship between access to economic and concrete supports and child welfare involvement. There needs to be shared responsibility across programs to get upstream and provide the services needed to prevent child welfare involvement. The resulting impact can be huge. e.g. the report cites that "60% of substantiated CPS responses nationally involve neglect only … provision of economic & concrete supports is associated with decreased risk for both neglect and physical abuse." https://lnkd.in/ebgcMP74 #concretesupports Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Are you a child welfare caseworker in the United States? I am researching how caseworkers use reflective practice skills to guide their practice. If you meet the criteria and are willing to answer the required personal, identifiable, and demographic questions, I would love to hear from you! Here's what you need to know: - Participation is voluntary - Activities include answering demographic questions and a 1:1 interview or focus group via Zoom - Exclusion criteria: not a child welfare caseworker or not working in the United States If you have questions about this study, please contact me at srudd3@my.gcu.edu or LinkedIn. Let's work together to improve child welfare practices through reflective practice skills!

"RECOMMENDATIONS: Economic and concrete supports are essential for preventing child maltreatment and child welfare involvement, and for promoting family stability and well-being. Child welfare agencies face many challenges and barriers in providing access to these supports; they prefer to shift the primary role to other human service systems and community-based providers. To do so, policy and fiscal reforms are needed to increase direct and flexible funding, as are changes to policies and practices that contribute to unnecessary child welfare system involvement."

The child welfare workforce plays a critical role in helping families thrive and stay safely together. But the ongoing practice (with feedback) that is essential to family engagement skills is rarely feasible in the field. That is why Lyssn is developing a new Child Welfare Advanced Training tool with unlimited, on-demand practice opportunities representative of the families child welfare professionals work with day-to-day. This tool is an opportunity to hone Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills with scenarios representing children, youth, parents, and resource parents.   Read about Motivational Interviewing as a cross-cutting engagement strategy in child welfare here: https://lnkd.in/gcv2FiTp #childwelfare #AIinHealthcare #motivationalinterviewing

Our 14th annual State of Child Welfare report provides a 5-year analysis of how Pennsylvania fares with practices around child safety, placement, and permanency and includes county-level data and statewide and geographic trends to improve the child welfare system. Read the report today: https://ow.ly/cnvu50QGfuN

This new brief from our research partners Mathematica, the Center for the Study of Social Policy, and the UNC School of Social Work summarizes emerging data practices that may help advance equity in child welfare. The project team identified emerging data practices by conducting an environmental scan of academic literature, policy documents, and other relevant sources. The following questions guided the environmental scan: • How do state and local child welfare agencies and their partners collect and use data to understand and advance equity in service delivery and child and family outcomes? • Which data practices show promise for supporting child welfare agencies in advancing equity across the child welfare service continuum? https://buff.ly/3wORbmb #Equity #Data #ChildWelfare