Child Welfare and Early Childhood: Cross-Systems Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Young Children and Their Families: Kick-Off Webinar Resources
These resources are from the kick-off webinar of the Child Welfare and Early Childhood: Cross-Systems Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Young Children and Their Families series. The “Kick-off” or initial webinar in the series, provides a rationale, and demonstrates the need for alignment of early childhood and child welfare systems. Given that approximately 40% of all children entering foster care are ages 5 and under, addressing the needs of these children and their families is necessary if child welfare systems are going to move toward achieving better outcomes for children and families.
Click here to access the recording for this webinar.
Click here to access the slide deck for this webinar.
Additional resources shared during the kick-off webinar:
- Racial Justice in the Child Welfare System: Leadership Leaning into a Core Practice Model
- Racial Justice in the Child Welfare System
- The California Child Welfare Core Practice Model (CPM)
- The Impact Center at FPG
- National Indian Child Welfare Association
- Addressing Systemic Racism in Our Child Welfare System
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