Increasing LGBT Cultural Competency

06/21/13 • 18 min

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation initiatve All Children - All Families helps child welfare organizations improve their recruitment and retention of volunteers and resource families in the LGBT community and works to enhance the LGBT cultural competency within the child welfare system. Tracy Flynn, consultant with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, talks more about this opportunity.

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