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Religions worldwide emphasize the sanctity of the family and advocate strongly for children’s access to essential needs like food, health, shelter, education, and community support. These principles establish faith communities as leading advocates for children’s well-being around the world.
On closer examination, however, religious communities are at times divided internally and from one another on issues related to the rights of and responsibilities toward children and the dynamic interplay between parents and states in ensuring their protection and care. Some members of faith communities…
On 20-21 October 2020, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) held two-day virtual conversations with organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders to strategize innovative ways to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable solution for families in need.
This video includes two panel discussions (followed by audience Q & A) featuring: Hon. William A. Thorne, Former Tribal and State Court Judge (Trial and Appellate),…
On 20-21 October 2020, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) held two-day virtual conversations with organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders to strategize innovative ways to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable solution for families in need.
This video features Lisa Sangoi, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Movement for Family Power as the opening keynote speaker. The video also includes remarks from Alan…
Overview
The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance hosted the 6th Annual Social Service Workforce Strengthening Symposium on the topic of using evidence as a catalyst for advocacy efforts to support the social service workforce. Held on May 7, 2019, in Washington, DC, and via live webcast, a total of 313 individuals and 13 watch parties participated from 42 countries across NGOs, practice, government, academia, associations, foundations, UN agencies and other experts in the field. They heard speakers share experiences and lessons learned from recent comprehensive social…
What role can authentic youth engagement play in addressing the needs of former foster youth? This video presents an exchange of lessons and experiences between youth and adult representatives of Nebraska Children and Families Foundation in the United States and Doncel Asociación Civil in Argentina. The exchange was facilitated by (Re)Connecting Youth, an IYF initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
This online course on implicit bias was developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity to aid practitioners in understanding and addressing racial bias in the US child protection system. The course introduces participants to insights about how our minds operate and helps them understand the origins of implicit associations. Participants will also uncover some of their own biases and learn strategies for addressing them. Each module is divided into a short series of lessons, many taking less than 10 minutes to…
This webinar series offers technical assistance to child welfare agencies in the US on how to use data to improve outcomes for children and families.
The first webinar in this series discusses strategies for mining administrative data to assess the characteristics and needs of at-risk child welfare populations. Using examples from a federal Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) grantee in Illinois, Dr. Dana Weiner identifies the key requirements of productive data mining, steps in the data mining process, and useful statistical techniques for analyzing and making sense of administrative…
This six-part video series provides an overview of the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) and the NYTD Review, a federal review conducted by the Children’s Bureau to assess how states collect and report data on youth transitioning out of foster care. Using whiteboard animation, the videos cover the history and implementation of NYTD, NYTD data collection and reporting, an introduction to the NYTD review, the system demonstration and survey methodology, the case record review, and the stakeholder interviews.
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Data-driven decision making (DDDM) is a way to determine a course of action based on quality data. It uses data systematically and intelligently to assess, test, and improve a program, activity, or process.
DDDM is about getting the right data to the right people at the right time to effectively use the data to problem-solve and improve performance. It can help child welfare organizations identify and respond to emerging trends and needs among children and families.
This three-part video series shows how a fictional organization, Greene County Department of Human Services, set out to…
This video from the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute explains how the state of Missouri in the US reformed its child welfare system by strengthening the social service workforce. The Missouri Children’s Division faced big challenges prior to 2014. Too many children were in out-of-home care, child welfare workers approached practice inconsistently, and the state was plagued by high staff turnover rates. This is the story of how the Division collaborated on a new Workforce Excellence project to design and implement a new practice model to address these issues.