Welcome to QIC-EY
Charged with advancing child welfare programs and practice to ensure that they are authentically engaging and empowering children and youth in child welfare throughout the U.S., especially in relation to permanency decisions.
Charged with advancing child welfare programs and practice to ensure that they are authentically engaging and empowering children and youth in child welfare throughout the U.S., especially in relation to permanency decisions.
Do you wonder why engaging youth is so important and why you should invest in ensuring that youth have an authentic voice in child welfare? Take a few minutes to listen to Maci Kean, Member, National Youth Engagement Advisory Council to find out why!
In an effort to redefine engagement of children and youth, the Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanence is guided by the four following principles.
Children and youth must be embraced as experts on their own lives, a source of solutions, and as partners in decision-making.
To respect, value, and prioritize the engagement of children and youth, intentional policy, practice, training, evaluation, and infrastructure supporting such engagement is required of both child welfare agencies and courts.
A culture of equity and inclusion must be cultivated to ensure that children and youth of all ages, races, ethnic backgrounds, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities can safely and effectively partner in shared-decision making.
Permanency for children and youth must be legal, relational, and cultural; all three are critical and interconnected.