The next Foster Care Community of Practice meetings are on July 29 and 31, 2025. These duplicate meetings invite Tribal and county workers and other stakeholders to connect and share practice information. Learn more about the Foster Care Community of Practice.

The July 2025 meeting topic is "Maintaining Connections for Children in Foster Care." During these meetings, we will share an overview of the updated Practice Guide for Maintaining Family Connections for Children in Foster Care (DHS-5552). Breakout sessions will allow workers to collaborate on and discuss best practices regarding family visitation.

The Human Services Performance Management team will also present on efforts to improve measurement of county child welfare performance. The team is gathering child welfare expert input on meaningful, useful and equitable evaluation of child welfare performance to present to leadership. July sessions are geared towards ongoing case managers for children and youth in out-of-home placement who are receiving child protection, child welfare, children's mental health, disability services, and/or corrections (for those with Title IVE agreements).

Participants only need to attend one of the meetings below:

• Register for Tuesday, July 29, 10:00 - 11:30am
• Register for Thursday, July 31, 2:00 - 3:30pm