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Multidisciplinary wraparound legal services

A multidisciplinary law office where social workers, peer advocates, and other professionals provide meaningful support to parents in addition to legal counsel and advocacy

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Practice Tip Toolkit

Birth-Foster Family Connections

Practices for birth parents and foster parents (kin or non-kin) to work as a team toward reunification

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Toolkit

Dear Leaders

Resource as starting point for leaders in child welfare to bring family voice and power to the system

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Toolkit

All Children, All Families (ACAF)

Best practice toolkit promoting LGBTQ+ inclusive policies and affirming practices for child welfare agencies

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Partnership

Four Questions, Seven Judges

Seven-judge pilot project in Iowa reduces number of child removals by asking social workers a series of four questions before approving a request to remove a child

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Blind Removals

A committee-based approach to placement which omits race-identifying information such as names and home addresses when making determinations about removal

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Interview Practice Tip

Practices for humanizing Black lives

Practice recommendations from the proposed Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act (AAFPA)

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Program

Child Safety Conferences (CSC) to avoid child removal

Timely, strengths-based team meetings facilitated by a neutral party, to develop collaborative solutions among families, their network of support, and DHS, to avoid child removal

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Mother’s Magnolia Trust guaranteed monthly income

One year of guaranteed income at $1,000 a month, no strings attached, for Black mothers living in federally subsidized housing

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