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        - July/August 2015
        - Vol. 16, No. 6

## Spotlight on Workforce Training and Capacity Building

 In order for child welfare agencies and professionals to provide effective services for children and families, they must have the capacity and flexibility to grow with the emerging needs of their field. This month, CBX highlights tools and resources to help agencies and professionals build their skills, develop their workforce, improve working environments, and more. 

### Issue Spotlight

        - Building Capacity Using the CQI Process
        - Desk Guide to Building a High-Performing Agency
        - Using Design Teams to Improve Worker Satisfaction
        - Webinars on Workforce Development Strategies
        - Retention, Turnover of Child Welfare Professionals
        - Self-Efficacy and Retaining Agency Workers

#### Recent Issues

##### June 2015

Spotlight on Transitioning Youth

##### May 2015

Spotlight on National Foster Care Month

#### Next Issue of CBX

Back to School

## 			News From the Children's Bureau             

 We highlight the Administration for Children and Families' (ACF's) new office dedicated to the prevention of human trafficking, as well as an announcement for grants available to State and regional adoption exchanges to help further localize efforts of the National Adoption Recruitment Campaign. 
        - Associate Commissioner's Page
        - ACF's New Office on Trafficking in Persons
        -  National Adoption Recruitment Campaign Grants
        - Working With Interpreters to Engage Families
        - CB Website Updates

### 			Child Welfare Research            

 CBX features an issue of  CW360°  on culturally responsive child welfare practice, a brief on homelessness among youth in the United States, and a study on the experiences of trafficking victims and possible sources of their resistance to helpful service.   
          - *CW360°* Issue on Cultural Responsiveness
          - Report Provides Data on Homeless Youth 
          - Human Trafficking Survivors and Resistance to Treatment
          - Survival Sex Among Youth in New York 

### 			Strategies and Tools for Practice            

 This section of CBX offers publications, articles, reports, toolkits, and other instruments that provide either evidence-based strategies or other concrete help to child welfare and related professionals. 
          - Early Childhood Self-Assessment Tool for Family Shelters
          - Reducing Racially Disparate Outcomes in Child Welfare 
          - Toolkit for Casework With Immigrant Families

### 			Resources            

 This CBX section provides a quick list of interesting resources, such as websites, videos, journals, funding or scholarship opportunities, or other materials that can be used in the field or with families.  
          - Webpage on Preventing Sex Trafficking
          - Supporting Mothers Who Were Raised in Foster Care
          - Foster Youth Museum

### 			Training and Conferences            

          - Online Course on Implementation Science
          - Conferences

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