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  • Why QIC-EY

    “When youth are involved… you see fewer disruptions in their placements. You see permanency quicker when they are involved.” Barriers Report, p. 44

The Challenge

Too often, engagement with children and youth is treated as a procedural requirement rather than a genuine partnership. This can result unintentionally in child welfare professionals deciding “what is best” for children and youth rather than collaborating with them to determine what will help them thrive.

Many workers report feeling unprepared to facilitate authentic conversations or are unsure how to incorporate youth perspectives into planning. These deficits make it hard to create genuine, consistent relationships—and that’s where change must start.

The Solution: Elevate Engagement

Create systems that value and support engaging children and youth in their own permanency planning.

Elevate the skills of child welfare professionals so they can develop productive and meaningful relationships with children and youth.

Include children and youth in decision-making so they are heard and empowered.

Benefits of Engaging Children and Youth

Improves permanency and transition related outcomes while enhancing both child and agency wellbeing.

Reduces time in care and expands safe permanency options (including kin and reunification), increasing the likehood of timely legal permanency and ensuring children leave care with lasting family connections.

Promotes fairness in decision-making, increasing young persons’ satisfaction and commitment to the identified permanency outcome.

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The QIC-EY is about using authentic child and youth engagement to find connections between what they want, what they need, and what you can do as a child welfare professional.

When [youth] are involved… you see fewer disruptions in their placements. You see permanency quicker when they are involved.

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