Child-Centric Best Practices

Technology has become the new infrastructure of foster care operations. Under the T3C Blueprint, agencies are expected to maintain digital systems that ensure accuracy, accessibility, and real-time accountability. In this week’s Weekly Shift, FMG explores how automation and artificial intelligence can strengthen compliance, streamline workflows, and enhance human judgment when applied with ethics and intention.

“Child-centered” has long been a guiding value in child welfare, but under the July 2025 T3C Blueprint it is now a measurable standard. Agencies must show how policies, decisions, and documentation improve each child’s stability, safety, and voice. This edition of The Weekly Shift explores how to align leadership, CQI, and practice to meet the new child-centered expectations with integrity and precision.

When most agencies hear “T3C compliance,” they think of the paperwork: case notes, service plans, incident reports. And while...