Listen as Capacity Building Center for States Family Consultants and Young Adult Consultants reflect on the key themes and learnings from day two of the 2024 CWVE.

Highlights the advocacy work of state and regional youth leadership councils. Two paid regional and state youth specialists and the Texas Director for Transitional Living Services describe how including youth voice by providing them a “seat at the table” at the state capital enhances the child welfare system. All three discuss the rewards and personal impact of their work.

This video is a part of the Empowering Caregivers, Strengthening Families Video Series. It demonstrates key aspects of agency support to caregivers, including the importance of quality personal contact, training, and resources to empower caregivers through the process of moving from foster parenting to adoption.

Examines how teams can determine an approach and develop a plan for pilot testing.

Presents strategies for building a systemwide organizational culture that promotes working collaboratively to improve service array.

Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

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.

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. 

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Highlights the beneficial role of agency support and encouragement to caregivers in ensuring effective foster parenting and successful reunification measures. In this video, a foster parent discusses the importance of communication and trust between caregivers and biological family members, along with agency training and resources, for successful reunification.

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

Explore foundational information to build shared understanding of child welfare data collection and evidence.

Discover services and resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare.