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MPLD graduate Kendra Lowden speaks about her experience in the program, how it advanced her career, and how she furthered her research action project to become a groundbreaking state training. She also offers insight and recommendations for better supporting Indigenous youth and families by maintaining their cultural connections.
Applications for the 2024 cohort of the Minority Professional Leadership Development (MPLD) Program are being accepted through June 3, 2024.
Greta Archbold, who works in the New York City regional office, researched how to better prepare regional office staff to make kinship placements.
In 2019, over 51% of teens in South Carolina’s foster care system lived in congregate care, also known as group homes. Two years later, there had been a 15% decrease in congregate care placements.
When Sarahi first stepped into a room filled with her new MPLD colleagues, she was taken aback: “The energy in the room was incredible.”