Kansas Strong for Children and Families Resources
Kansas Strong resources include research, scholarship, trainings, and other products that are developed by and for child and family advocates. We work in partnerships and collaborations with youth, birth parents, kin caregivers, child welfare professionals, the court and legal system, community-based service providers, and leaders across the state of Kansas. The materials on this page have been developed to support the full continuum of child welfare services, enhance agency and court/legal practices, and reduce systemic barriers.
Youth Voices from Foster Care Fact Sheet
Youth Voices from Foster Care is an arts-based, youth-led creative storytelling project that aims to involve youth who have experienced foster care in the process of improving child welfare…
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Understanding the Historical Context of Structural Racism and Current Day Implications
Lecture 1 of the Kansas Racial Equity Collaborative Online Lecture Series: Understanding the Historical Context of Structural Racism and Current Day Implications: How We Got Here and a Better Path…
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Sharing the Voices of Youth in Foster Care: A Roundtable Discussion Exploring Lessons Learned from a Digital Arts, Participatory Action Research Project Centering the Experiences of Youth in Kansas Foster Care
This presentation shares the benefits and challenges of engaging in a research partnership aimed at learning directly from the experiences of youth in foster care. Youths’ digital art projects…
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Resilience Alliance Fact Sheet
Resilience Alliance is a curriculum is designed to educate child welfare leaders and workers about secondary traumatic stress and train them in techniques to mitigate and cope with symptoms.…
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Pursuing Equity and Justice in Implementation: Learning from the Collective Process of Addressing Racial Disparities in Child Welfare
This storyboard highlights the collaborative practices and experiences of practitioners and researchers in a segment of a federally funded demonstration project which involved an Institutional…
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Parents' and Professionals' Perceptions of the Court and Legal System
This study’s primary objective was to explore parents’ and professionals’ perceptions of court/legal practices and examine whether they differ by demographic or other characteristics.
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Parent/Youth Facilitation Fact Sheet
Learn more about Parent/Youth Facilitation. This Kansas Strong initiative is a two-pronged approach to preventing entry into care of older youth by: (1) Using a facilitation process to help…
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Parent Experiences with the Child Welfare System: Validation of Surveys Assessing Interactions with Caseworkers and the Court System
There are limited tools available to assess the experience of parents with children in foster care. Parents navigating the child welfare system experience multiple interacting systems, including…
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Lessons Learned from Facilitating Youth Directed, Participatory Action Research in a State State-Wide Study of Child Welfare Services
Youth can play a powerful role in participatory action research (PAR), leading to meaningful knowledge development; especially in social work sectors such as child welfare. This presentation…
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Kansas Strong Fact Sheet
Learn about more Kansas Strong for Children and Families and the work we are doing to strengthen the child welfare system and improve outcomes for children, families, and communities.
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