Using an intersectional lens, this interactive webinar will focus on the questions, concerns, and challenges a caregiver might encounter as an LGBTQ+ young person in their care grows up. We will explore such areas as dating, clothing, disclosure of identity, and health care -- including safer sex … [Read more...]

Our most popular training, Positive Indian Parenting (PIP) prepares tribal and non-tribal child welfare personnel to train American Indian and Alaska Native parents using a culturally specific approach. The materials presented during this training draw on the strengths of historic Indian … [Read more...]

This event will present information on the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI) and explain how the model enables states to better address mental health and developmental needs of children in foster care, adoptive families, or guardianship families. This is a Child … [Read more...]

Initial efforts have been made to understand the needs of diverse populations by documenting disparities in outcomes of individuals from different racial and ethnic groups. However, between-group comparisons based on race and ethnicity are neither sufficient to address the root causes that result in … [Read more...]

Free! This supportive group for first/birth parents will take place as a Zoom call. Group members will be able to connect, listen and share their experiences of adoption, both private and through the child welfare system. Space will also be provided for participants to explore and share … [Read more...]

The 2022 National Conference on Ending Homelessness will bring together service providers, system leaders, advocates, people with lived experience of homelessness, and others to learn from each other, discuss best practices, and share new innovations in the field. … [Read more...]

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that … [Read more...]

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that … [Read more...]

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that … [Read more...]

The theme for this summer’s NDACAN Summer Training Series is the power of linking administrative data in research on child welfare. Sessions include data management workshops, linking across NDACAN data products and linking NDACAN data to external data products, and applied analysis workshops that … [Read more...]