Setting the Stage: Creating the Space for People With Lived Expertise to Thrive Tip Sheet

Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

Publication year: 2022
Author:
Capacity Building Center for States

Description

This tip sheet offers best practices to ensure people with lived expertise feel comfortable and welcome to share their knowledge.

Use this tip sheet with the corresponding Learning Experience video that focuses on strategies for effectively integrating people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce and the CWVE 2022 Learning Experience Discussion Guide, which provides a description of the topic, reflection questions for individual learning, and conversation starters and team activities for child welfare staff and collaborative partners to explore together. 

Suggested Citation

Capacity Building Center for States. (2022). Setting the stage: Creating the space for people with lived expertise to thrive tip sheet. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 
 
This material may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, when doing so, please credit Capacity Building Center for States. 

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