Get the latest research on decision science and safety decision-making practices in child welfare to help improved safety outcomes.

Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

Tells the story of the relationship, initially forged over a shared meal, between a youth and her CASA worker. The CASA worker’s advocacy for concrete supports to meet the youth’s needs helped grow the trust in their relationship.

This video introduces and conveys the impact of simulation training.

This tool is a role-playing activity, designed to help child welfare workers and supervisors become more familiar with the process of recognizing and translating buzzwords into descriptive language.

Learn about the Capacity Building Center for States’ diversity, racial equity, and inclusion terms and definitions and the importance of shared language to advance equity. 

Explore the Capacity Building Center for States’ most up-to-date diversity, racial equity, and inclusion terms and definitions. 

Get the basics on general practice for agency interventions, including screening, documenting descriptions of abuse and protective efforts, and evaluating risk.

Explore strategies for engaging and empowering fathers of color in child welfare. 

Examine new software and technology innovations, which provide better, more integrated services and cut costs for states and jurisdictions.

Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

Learn how to effectively present data in digestible and actionable ways that lead to real change.

Consider ways to be intentional about advancing race equity while implementing new child welfare programs and practices. This publication includes questions for teams to consider throughout change and implementation processes—from the earliest stages of exploring a problem to identifying solutions to ensuring sustainable implementation.

Hear about strategies for authentically partnering with youth, young adults, Tribes, families, and communities of color to inform and improve child welfare research, practice, and policy.

Learn how to conduct a total cost of ownership analysis and see how various system development choices can influence included costs.