9 Proven Strategies to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Your Workplace
This article lists 9 ways to improve DEIB within your workplace.
Document Category: Inclusivity/Racial Equity
Cultural Humility Strategies
(60 minutes) Supervisors have a key role to play in promoting cultural responsiveness and leveraging diversity. This one hour module offers concrete strategies to help promote recognition and valuing of cultural differences at the interpersonal and agency level.
Assessing Trauma in American Indian/Alaska Native Parents as an ICWA Active Effort: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This summary examines the correlation between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) parents who are involved in ICWA cases, their exposure to trauma, and how that affects their ability to care for their children.
NCWWI Leadership Academy
The NCWWI Leadership Academy provides supervisors and managers with opportunities to become skilled in leading change, fostering collaborations, implementing results-oriented decisions, and leading people. Academy graduates across the country are pioneering positive changes in their agencies and strengthening child welfare program effectiveness to support the success of children, youth, and families.
Dear Leaders Tool
This resource includes starting points for child welfare leaders who seek to bring family voice and power into the system.
Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services to Support Unaccompanied Children in the United States
This report offers recommendations for strengthening child-sensitive reception, care, and services for unaccompanied children in the United States. Drawing on UNICEF’s global experience, international guidance, and the insights of key stakeholders, the report intends to offer a constructive, solutions-oriented vision for addressing the challenges related to child-sensitive reception and care within the U.S.
Caring for LGBTQ Children & Youth
This resource provides information about the care and support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning children and youth. The All Families project engages child welfare agencies across the United States, providing resources, technical assistance and training on best practices for supporting and serving LGBTQ youth and LGBTQ families. Additional resources and websites for more …
The Indian Child Welfare Act – What We Need to Know on “Active Efforts”
A video sharing the history of ICWA as well as the present state of ICWA. Practice considerations and practice examples regarding active efforts are also discussed.
Safe & Connected™ Practice Model
A model of practice that includes a research-informed framework, engaged assessments based on strengths, needs and risks, analytical decision making in partnership with families and the process of evidence-based practice.
Integrating Positive Youth Development and Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Approaches Across the Child Welfare and Justice Systems
This paper explores why systems need a new emphasis on Positive Youth Development (PYD) approaches that incorporate racial equity and inclusion, why it is important to focus on young adults specifically, and why the child welfare and justice systems are particularly important sectors in which to provide positive, developmentally appropriate supports. This paper also introduces …