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  • Webinar
  • Kinship as a diligent recruitment strategy: Lessons learned from Tribes

  • Learn about the ways identification, development, and support of kinship placements can strengthen your diligent recruitment efforts and promote positive outcomes for children and youth. Learn from Tribal professionals about the ways kinship placements can increase placement stability and help maintain important cultural connections.

    Learning objectives

    • Identify key concepts for diligently finding, developing, and supporting kinship families
    • Recognize the positive impact kinship families can provide with placement stability and cultural connection
    • Gather ideas from Tribal child welfare leaders with lived experience in supporting kinship families
    • Develop family-focused and culturally responsive practices
    • Recognize how identifying, developing, and supporting kinship and clanship placements can support your diligent recruitment efforts and improve Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) compliance

    Presenters

    Misty Flowers
    Diligent recruitment advisor
    National Center for Diligent Recruitment

    Pamela Robbins
    National child welfare advisor
    National Center for Diligent Recruitment

    Panel

    Katie Avalos
    Senior licensing specialist
    Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community

    Norma Hernandez
    Foster, kinship, adoption, and guardianship licensing manager
    Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community

    Audience

    This webinar is open to all audiences (state, county, tribal, and territorial) including staff providing direct support to families and those who supervise those staff.  Additionally, administrators and managers responsible for diligent recruitment development and implementation may be interested.  The webinar may also be applicable to private agencies and nonprofit organizations that partner with child welfare systems on diligent recruitment work.  

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