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All Children - All Families: Core Competencies
The competency-based training will increase the ability of an organization’s staff members to understand LGBT clients and will include issues of cultural identity, family formation and development, family law and more.
Equal Benefits Ordinance: Long Beach, Calif.
All Children - All Families: Agency Grievance Procedures
Agencies that intend to welcome LGBT clients should review their grievance procedures and ensure that they function properly as a way for clients to express and resolve problems.
All Children - All Families: Agency Data Collection
Nearly all foster care and adoption service providers collect and routinely analyze data for the purposes of reporting outcomes to funders, community stakeholders and for tracking progress toward the agency’s strategic goals and priorities.
All Children - All Families: Client Non-Discrimination Statements
Implementing a client non-discrimination statement inclusive of the LGBT community is one of the first steps to welcoming and affirming LGBT prospective foster and adoptive parents.