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.
Adoption Tracking Tool Fact Sheet
The Adoption Tracking Tool is a Kansas Strong initiative that is designed to reduce time to adoption by using a standardized tool for tracking key benchmarks and time schedules for children…
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Adapting and Installing a Coaching Program for Child Welfare Supervisors: Lessons Learned from Initial Implementation
Originally a roundtable discussion at the Society for Social Work and Research 2022 annual conference, this presentation engaged in a dialogue detailing the…
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A Multi-Level, Collaborative Approach to Strengthening a Child Welfare System
As part of a national demonstration to strengthen child welfare systems’, Kansas Strong for Children & Families addresses multiple factors that influence child/family outcomes and systemic…
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A Confirmatory Factory Analysis of a Brief Version of the Secondary Traumatic Stress Informed Organization Assessment (STSI_OA)
This presentation describes the validation of the modified STSI_OA measure, which includes domains related to an organization’s promotion of resilience building activities (Resilience Building),…
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