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The 2020 VirtualQuality Parenting Initiative National ConferenceSustaining a Relationship-Based System in Uncertain Times
Welcome!
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The Quality Parenting Initiative is a strategy
of the Youth Law Center to strengthen foster
care by refocusing on excellent parenting for
all children in the child welfare system.
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In order to thrive, all children
and youth need excellent parenting.
They must have loving, committed
and skilled care based on child
development research,
information and tools.
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is an approach,
a philosophy and a network
of sites that share information
and ideas about how to improve
parenting as well as recruit and
retain excellent families.
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Five Core Principles
#1) Excellent parenting is the
most important service we
can provide to children and
youth in care. Children need
families, not beds.
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Five Core Principles
#2) Child development and trauma
research indicates that children
need constant, consistent,
effective parenting to grow and
reach their full potential.Photo: Dr. Charles H. Zeanah, Jr, MD – Tulane Institute
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Five Core Principles
#3) Each community
must define excellent
parenting for itself.
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Five Core Principles
#4) Policy and practice must
be changed to align with the
community’s definition of
excellent parenting.
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Five Core Principles
#5) Participants in the system
are in the best position
to recommend and implement
change.
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is an effort to rebrand
foster care, not simply by changing a logo
or an advertisement, but by changing the
expectations of and support for caregivers.
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The Youth Law Center advocates to transform foster care and juvenile justice systems across the nation so every child and youth can thrive.
The Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI) is a national child welfare system change initiative of the Youth Law Center. QPI is a relationship-based approach to foster care, based on the concept
that every child needs excellent parenting everyday. QPI works to reform child welfare practice and policy to meet that goal by listening to and partnering with those who are directly
impacted.