During the pandemic, practice demands shifted from “when am I going to be able to see children and families” to “how am I going to see children and families?” This webinar from 2020 offered strategies to balance the need for fact finding, risk assessment, prevention, and safety with minimizing negative and traumatic traumatic impacts on children and families. The mindset change this represented remains highly relevant today. Child welfare agencies must preserve efforts for in person intervention to those at highest risk and direct all other efforts to preventing family violence and child maltreatment.
