Child Welfare’s 21st-Century Research Agenda: An Anti-Racist Approach to Child Neglect Investigations

This webinar will provide an historical and contemporary overview of child neglect and its link to structural racism in child welfare. Then, the presenter will engage the audience in variations of child neglect definitions and the nuanced interpretations in child neglect investigations. The presentation will conclude with strategies to address and combat racial bias in child neglect reporting and in the substantiation of these investigations.

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Maximize Your Social Current Engagement: Knowledge and Insights Center

Experienced librarians and other Social Current staff and partners with subject matter expertise provide professionals in the nonprofit social services sector with timely and useful information solutions. This includes on-demand, 24/7 access to thousands of online knowledge and resource assets, full-text articles, journals and publications, and real-world policies and procedures from social services organizations. Join the Knowledge and Insights Center team for this session. They’ll provide an overview of services, instructions for using the online resources portal, and tips and tricks that make information searches and usage easier.

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Introduction to COA Accreditation

This webinar will provide an introduction to Social Current and COA Accreditation. Participants will gain an understanding of the key concepts that define COA Accreditation, the steps toward becoming accredited, and the benefits of accreditation.

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Strategies for Insuring the Sector

The task and challenge of insuring nonprofit organizations is a complex one and agents, brokers, underwriters, and carrier representatives are more limited than ever for multiple reasons. This webinar from the Advancing Financial Sustainability SPARK Exchange will examine these challenges, including the state of insurance marketplace (where it’s going and where it’s been), where claims are originating from, the proper limits needed to protect your organization, corporate structure and risk mitigation, legislation and improved language, and how state governments and community-based organizations can work together.

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Core Strategies for Workforce Well-Being and Resilience

As workforce challenges continue to hinder human services organizations, leaders are searching for concrete action steps to support staff who are emotionally and physically exhausted. Though staff often enter the field excited to make a difference, it can be difficult to keep them connected to the vision and mission of the organization. During this webinar, Social Current’s experts on leadership excellence and trauma-informed, resilience-oriented approaches will outline the critical concepts of workforce resilience and well-being.

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Maximize Your Social Current Engagement: Learning and Professional Development

Join this session to learn how you can support your staff’s professional development through Social Current—our online learning platform contains more than 100 courses in a variety of formats. Our offerings are aligned in key areas for advancing the impact of the social sector, such as equity, diversity, and inclusion; performance and quality improvement; COA Accreditation preparation; and more.

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Taking Back Your Narrative: Advocacy 101 for the Social Sector

This webinar, the first in the series, will offer novice and seasoned policy and change advocates the chance to learn and grow in their advocacy skills. The first half of the session will include an overview of the U.S. Congress, the Social Current Public Policy and Government Relations Office, and Social Current’s 2022-2024 federal policy agenda. The second half of the presentation will feature a hands-on workshop to help participants turn expertise, lived experience, and passions into a novel and dynamic communication and advocacy strategy that can be applied in a variety of settings.

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Maximize Your Social Current Engagement: Learning and Professional Development

Join this session to learn how you can support your staff’s professional development through Social Current—our online learning platform contains more than 100 courses in a variety of formats. Our offerings are aligned in key areas for advancing the impact of the social sector, such as equity, diversity, and inclusion; performance and quality improvement; COA Accreditation preparation; and more.

Free

Taking Back Your Narrative: About the New Congress

This webinar, the second in the series, will offer novice and seasoned policy and change advocates a concise and practical overview of the 118th U.S. Congress, including tips and tricks to advocate and educate members of Congress effectively.

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Building a “How Might We?” Culture: Using Human-Centered Design to Strengthen Performance and Quality Management

This webinar will highlight several elements of Congreso de Latinos Unidos' homegrown design toolkit to demonstrate how they overlay client and staff experience in programs with data for progression towards outcomes.  Congreso’s unique strategy couples design and experimentation to identify and test program and operational enhancements to increase performance. 

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Exploring the Benefits of a Social Current Engagement Package: Knowledge and Insights Center

Experienced librarians and other Social Current staff and partners with subject matter expertise provide professionals in the nonprofit social services sector with timely and useful information solutions. This includes on-demand, 24/7 access to thousands of online knowledge and resource assets, full-text articles, journals and publications, and real-world policies and procedures from social services organizations. Join the Knowledge and Insights Center team for this session. They’ll provide an overview of services, instructions for using the online resources portal, and tips and tricks that make information searches and usage easier.

Free

Taking Back Your Narrative: Network Policy Briefing

This webinar, the third in the series, will provide novice and seasoned policy and change advocates the chance to participate in a briefing on a topic prioritized by the network for a deep dive into the current political milieu, public and social policy implications, and practical strategies to advance advocacy and mobilization goals.

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