To provide stakeholders with an understanding of the unique educational needs and rights of children touched by the child welfare system and to empower them with an ability to promote positive school experiences as an integral part of the safety, permanency, and well being of children and youth.
Stakeholders will have an understanding of the service needs for families; the service providers that are available and accessible in their jurisdictions; and will be empowered and enabled to use their community partners in developing and delivering necessary services so that children and youth will be provided with safety, permanency and well-being.
To provide stakeholders in the child welfare system with sufficient understanding of human developmental stages to make decisions that promote lifelong healthy development for children and youth involved in the child welfare system.
To assure that stakeholders in the child welfare system have an appreciation of the vital importance of collaboration with other stakeholder groups/organizations in order to assure the safety, permanency and well being of children and the provision of due process to families who are participants in the dependency and neglect court and agency process.
To assure that stakeholders in the child welfare system have an understanding of the perspectives, motivations, culture and ethical considerations and the roles and responsibilities of other stakeholders within the child welfare system in order to gain an appreciation of the roles of others so that they may create respect for individuals, promote productive relationships, and maximize system capacity to assure safety, permanency and well being for children.
