Hear about the challenges and experiences of an adoptive family and how they created belonging, healthy development, and normal experiences.

Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator placement stability.

Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

Defines prepermanancy services for prospective adoptive and guardianship families and raises awareness about the need for more prepermanency services supports alongside postpermanency supports.

Examine the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program's purpose, objectives, history, funding, and requirements. 

Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator reentry to foster care.

This “Service Array Data Inventory Sample Worksheet” (Worksheet) is a companion tool to A Data-Driven Approach to Service Array Guide developed by the Capacity Building Center for States. To use the Worksheet, you can print it out and fill in the blank squares, or use the questions as a guide.

Explore models and approaches for targeting safety outcomes.

Explore tips and strategies to effectively engage and sustain the involvement of families and youth at the agency level. 

Explore the key components of engaging youth and families in individual permanency planning.

Learn a research-informed framework for agencies to explore implementation of CQI systems across seven areas, including leadership support and modeling, staff and stakeholder engagement, communication, administrative structure, use of quality data, case record review process, and application of CQI findings.

Support agency staff in the authentic engagement of youth and families in individual permanency planning processes.

Supports public child welfare agencies in conducting a 5-year total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis. 

The journeys of children, youth, and families in child welfare are seldom a straight line. Typically, there are highs and lows and winding paths in between

Understand the steps of a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis for child welfare information systems and learn about the tools available from the Capacity Building Center for States to support this process.