Webinar to Examine Strategies for Promoting Equity With the Family First Act

The Annie E. Casey and William T. Grant foun­da­tions are host­ing a webi­nar on April 25, 2019, to explore how child wel­fare lead­ers can use the Fam­i­ly First Pre­ven­tion Ser­vices Act to achieve equi­table out­comes for chil­dren and families.

Dur­ing the webi­nar ― part of the Lead­ing With Evi­dence: Inform­ing Prac­tice With Research series ― experts will discuss:

• new fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties under the Fam­i­ly First Act for evi­dence-based pre­ven­tion pro­grams that sup­port fam­i­lies and pre­vent the need for fos­ter care;
• how to use the law to cre­ate more equi­table out­comes when many evi­dence-based pro­grams are not val­i­dat­ed for chil­dren and fam­i­lies of col­or or deliv­ered in the con­text of iden­ti­ty and cul­ture; and
• how to use the law to engage com­mu­ni­ties, encour­age inno­va­tion and invest in build­ing fur­ther evi­dence to pro­mote equity.

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What: Pro­mot­ing Equi­table Out­comes With the Fam­i­ly First Pre­ven­tion Ser­vices Act 
When: Thurs­day, April 25, 2019, at 1 p.m. ET

Pan­elists:

• Suzanne Barnard (mod­er­a­tor), direc­tor of the Casey Foun­da­tion’s Evi­dence-Based Prac­tice Group
• Megan Mar­tin, vice pres­i­dent of pub­lic pol­i­cy at the Cen­ter for the Study of Social Policy
• Alexan­dra Cit­rin, senior asso­ciate at the Cen­ter for the Study of Social Policy

The Lead­ing With Evi­dence series focus­es on how child wel­fare lead­ers, researchers and pro­gram devel­op­ers can work togeth­er to lever­age the use of evi­dence in the child wel­fare field.

View record­ings of the 2018 Lead­ing With Evi­dence webi­nar series