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Building Capacity From Within: The Impact of LEAP on Activating the Early Childhood Workforce

Archived Meeting Resources
January 9, 2023
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This session was presented during the BUILD 2022 National Conference.

Hearing directly from participants in the Leadership Empowerment Action Project (LEAP) about their journeys, participants in this session will gain an understanding about the ways leadership development is a critical component of bringing equity into systems building work. Gain understanding of how intentional leadership development programs can equip the ECE workforce to be central in co-designing the systems meant to serve them and the children and families they work with.

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This comprehensive child welfare resource from Child Trends provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, permanency, and older youth in care. The data are essential to help policymakers understand how many children and youth come in contact with the child welfare system, and why. States can use this information to ensure that their child welfare systems support the safety, stability, and well-being of all families in their state.

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