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Excellent case management is critical to ensuring excellent parenting for children in care, so QPI is most effective when case management is fully engaged. This webinar’s panel, featuring caseworkers and foster parents across QPI sites, will focus on caseworker and foster parent partnerships and how these partnerships support excellent parenting.
Viewers of this webinar will:
- Learn effective strategies for partnerships.
- Gain an understanding of how teaming supports excellent parenting.
- Explore tools and practices that enhance teaming.
This 90-minute webinar originally . . .
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Beginning in 2019 in Southwest Florida with the Family Impact Program, Family Initiative draws upon the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) model to support families in building resiliency and trust for the children in their care. Their TBRI practitioners offer both educational opportunities and in-home services to support caregivers in their parenting approach by creating a holistic environment that supports children, allowing them to thrive. Family Initiative proudly offers this program in partnership with the Safe Children’s Coalition in Sarasota, Manatee, and Desoto counties, Citrus Family Care Network in Miami-Dade and Monroe . . .
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This webinar series, QPI Site Spotlight, journeys across QPI sites nationally and spotlights local work. This month will spotlight QPI Santa Barbara County, California. Featuring Department Business Specialist Gustavo Prado, Resource Parent Jacqueline Inda, and OC.OK. Education Coordinator Matt Pennon. The Our County. Our Kids. (OC.OK.) Team will join us for an in-depth conversation discussing the evolution of OC.OK.’s efforts to recruit, train, and support Quality Resource Families, and how QPI has guided this evolution.
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, traditional in-person events were . . .
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Curious about how other QPI sites support parents and children during family engagement? Join us to hear about the QPI approach which includes creative and newly imagined ways to build, maintain, and support relationships for children. QPI site representatives share strategies and best practice examples around family engagement including an overview of three different community-based family engagement centers.
This Practice Exchange will be of interest to all those involved in working to support and promote family engagement. The "QPI Practice Exchange" is an interactive, online meeting for members across sites to connect and strengthen their QPI . . .
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Join us for a new webinar series: QPI Site Spotlight. The series will journey across QPI sites nationally and spotlight local work featuring QPI Champions as presenters.
This month’s feature will spotlight QPI Connecticut. Deputy Commissioner Michael Williams will be joined by Tina Jefferson, Bureau Chief of Child Welfare, JoShonda Guerrier, Clinical Services Administrator, Dr. Linda Dixon, Transitional Supports and Success Administrator.
join us for an in-depth conversation discussing QPI’s journey in Connecticut including the launch of Quality Parenting Centers community-based . . .
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Hear how sites across the QPI Network use language to promote quality parenting. Presenters will share sample scripts for comfort calls, agency staff will share how shifting language can lead to more inclusiveness and we will also share effective communication tips for Foster Parent recruitment.Attendees will leave this peer learning opportunity with practical tools, tips and strategies to effectively communicate the values of QPI and excellent parenting.The "QPI Practice Exchange" is an interactive, online meeting for members across sites to connect and strengthen their . . .
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Watch a presentation by Ken Mysogland, Bureau Chief of External Affairs for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. His presentation focuses on how to tell the story of the Quality Parenting Initiative and excellent parenting by sharing effective communication strategies and promising practices.
While growing up in a family with 8 adopted siblings, Ken Mysogland witnessed firsthand the negative effects of childhood trauma. Due to these experiences, his decision to follow his passion to work in Child Protective Services became quite easy. For the past 33 years, Ken has worked for . . .
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This practice exchange meeting addresses the policies and practices that build, support, and maintain excellent parenting for every child every day. Learn how child welfare agencies can better understand their role in supporting the important partnerships that create meaningful, long-lasting relationships for young people and can contribute to changing the narrative of foster care.
This meeting originally aired Wednesday, August 24th, 2022.
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A new year is an ideal time to step back and take stock of where we are and where we're going. We’ve come a long way, but we're staying true to where we started. Join us for QPI 101: Fundamentals and Core Principles of the Quality Parenting Initiative where we will review our history, dive deep into our principles, and explore strategies that support excellent parenting for every child every day. Participants will hear from a diverse panel of QPI practitioners, QPI National team members, and network members with lived experience.
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Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) is the largest federal policy change the child welfare system has seen in decades. FFPSA emphasizes the importance of children growing up in families and helps ensure children are placed in the least restrictive setting. The spirit of FFPSA is aligned with the goals of QPI to ensure that children receive quality parenting every day. Watch this 90 minute interactive conversation around FFPSA implementation, best practices, strategies, and support.
This 90 minute QPI practice exchange meeting originally aired Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
