Partnering With Families and Youth to Shift System Culture

Presents strategies for building a healthy, innovative agency culture and climate to support family and youth engagement at all levels of child welfare. In this recorded webinar, leaders from the Kentucky Department for Community Based Services discuss how integration of family and youth voice has impacted the agency’s culture and climate. The webinar includes an exploration of Kentucky’s Child Welfare Transformation project, an overarching framework to support systemwide continuous improvement, and its Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START)—a Child Protective Services (CPS) program to support families when parental substance use disorders and child maltreatment are present.