QPI requires a commitment to the idea of the relationship-based approach in order to ensure excellent parenting. This panel of leaders will discuss how they have advanced QPI by ensuring the grassroots level is involved in the process of moving the work forward.
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QPI is grounded in the knowledge that the most effective intervention we can provide children to support healthy development and heal from trauma is strong, enduring relationships with caring adults. Dr. Barbara Stroud, licensed psychologist and internationally recognized expert on early childhood development and mental health, will explain the science behind connection as intervention and teach skills for nurturing the relationships that allow children to thrive. Dr. Stroud will also offer reflections on the insights that caregivers and systems have gained over the past year about the power of connection, and how we can build on those insights as we move forward.
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Join this session to learn more about the dissemination of QPI's new delivery model – The QPI Champions. This model is aimed at getting QPI embedded into culture by training local, internal advocates in QPI values, theory, and techniques. This past year QPI Champions expanded from 10 to 60 people, and next year will bring even more! You will learn what the QPI Champions model is, why it is valuable, and how you can participate.
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A kin-first approach to foster care is an important element of building a relationship-based system. It takes more than a philosophical commitment to put kin first: kin have unique needs that systems must address in order to support them in providing excellent care for children. In this session we’ll hear from kinship caregivers and QPI site leaders about innovative ways to meet kinship caregivers’ needs using the values and principles of QPI.
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Legal partners play a key role in critical decisions that impact children’s ability to maintain connections with the loving adults in their life. Building and strengthening relationships with courts, attorneys, and other legal partners is critical to successfully implement and sustain practices that prioritize excellent parenting. Members of the legal community will share how they are living the QPI values both in and out of the courtroom and provide tips for getting more court partners engaged in the QPI movement.
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This session will feature recommendations by system impacted youth on improving foster care from a groundbreaking new participatory research report, Through their Eyes, by the Young Women Freedom Center’s Freedom Research Institute. YWFC will share information about the the harmful foster care practices that youth identified as a primary driver of youth entanglement in the juvenile delinquency system, and provide recommendations from youth on how to protect their relationships, improve placement decisions and the quality of care, provide opportunities for self-advocacy, and allow youth to have the childhoods they deserve.
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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. In this session, panelists will discuss the best ways to involve case management staff in QPI. Panelists will also explore changes to case management practices that give case managers the tools and support they need to serve children and families through strong relationships.
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Early in the pandemic, several QPI sites rapidly identified and responded to families’ emergency needs through a pilot of a text-based data collection system that we now call Quality Parenting Outreach (QPO). QPO has evolved into a tool to strengthen relationships with families and ensure QPI implementation on the ground. Through 1-minute surveys, sites are receiving feedback on everything from birth and foster parent partnership to customer service issues, and addressing responses on the individual and systems levels. In this session you’ll hear from sites about their experiences with QPO and the information they’re learning.
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Good outcomes for children can hinge on the relationship between the caseworker and consumers. That relationship is influenced by parallel processes: a worker in a system based on compliance and consequences is likely to engage differently with consumers than a worker in a relationship-based system. This session will teach reflective practices that enhance self-awareness, build empathy, and mitigate harmful power dynamics. Workers, supervisors, administrators, and executives will all be able to apply reflective practice not only to themselves as individuals, but to their system as a whole, ultimately recognizing systemic and structural factors that either promote or undermine relationships in child welfare.
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A diverse panel of lived experience voices will join for a conversation to share their reflections, insights and key takeaways from this year’s conference. Panelists will provide ideas and recommendations for ways QPI sites can leverage the expertise of youth and parents to support system transformation efforts.
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Learn how to best communicate the QPI brand in all of our efforts to recruit and support caregivers. Suggestions range from use of graphics and language to changing work styles and training.
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Join us for our closing session as we want to hear what went well, what could be better and what you plan to do with this information when you leave the virtual conference!
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Florida's Just in Time Training is a web based service program designed to connect foster parents, kinship or other caregivers with training, peer experts and other resources. Questions are answered and practical solutions to care for children are discussed - all from the comfort of your home or office.