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Communicate About COVID-19

• ​How to host a virtual town hall?​

• ​How to communicate with older foster youth via text?​

• ​How to effectively conduct community outreach virtually?​

Support Youth

• ​How to temporarily stop youth from aging out of care? ​

• ​How to ensure youth have technology devices? ​

• ​How to help decide how a youth returns to school?​

• ​How to serve pregnant and parenting youth?​

• ​How to support youth experiencing homelessness? ​

• ​How to treat cases that overlap foster care and juvenile justice? ​

• ​How to limit the impact of COVID-19 for justice involved youth? ​

• ​Are there resources to support tribal communities?​

Support Your Workers

• ​Can social workers maintain their licenses during COVID-19?​

• ​How to ensure worker safety during in-person interactions with families?​

• ​How to provide childcare to social workers? ​

• ​How to purchase of technology and personal protective equipment? ​

• ​How to help group homes and agencies get PPE for their staff?​

• ​What resources do workers have to invest in self-care?​

Support Foster Families and Licensing

• ​How should foster parents prepare if they contract COVID-19 with foster youth in their care?

• ​How to license homes while social distancing?​

• ​How to move foster parent orientation and training online? ​

• ​How to temporarily license relatives/kin or foster parents during COVID-19? ​

• ​How to ensure fingerprinting doesn't stop your work? ​

• ​How to use FMAP to supplement foster parent rates?​

Alter Procedures Previously Done In-Person

• ​How to conduct visitation by phone or video?​

• ​How to use technology and maintain privacy during virtual visitations?​

• ​How to safely reopen in-person visitation?​

• ​How to conduct investigations?​

• ​What to do about court hearings?​

• ​How to design a trauma-informed quarantine or medical isolation program?​

Comply with Requirements

• ​What guidance is there from accrediting bodies on congregate care staffing? ​

• ​What are the current Title IV-E claiming procedures and eligibility reviews?​

• ​Are timeline extensions for federal dollars possible?​

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