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Join the Sounding Board conversation!
Dee Wilson's Sounding Board is now an interactive blog! This month's sounding board discusses a public health approach to preventing maltreatment related deaths. You may access the site and join in the conversation by clicking here: Sounding Board Blog
Ethical roles and responsibilities training
CITA will host a training on ethical roles and responsibilities in the dependency system on September 22, 2011 from 10am to noon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Building in Chehalis. The workshop is designed to help those working in dependency courts to think about what ethical behavior is, whether implicit conflicts in the ethical frameworks of those working in the system exist, and ways of improving outcomes for children and families as well as our own daily working environment. For further information click on the links below:
News You Can Use!
New QIC web site to focus on Child Representation
The National Quality Improvement Center on Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System has launched a new web site featuring a draft QIC model of child representation, state laws governing child representation from 10 sample states, academic articles, and evaluations of child representation.
Click here to access the QIC web site
Reasonable Efforts Symposia
The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts sponsors Reasonable efforts Symposia in each DSHS administrative region. To learn more, including a list of Symposia agendas and resulting action plans, click here.
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