Use this discussion guide with the Effectiveness in Child Welfare: Our Role in Improving the Lives of Children and Families videos to access a description of each topic, individual and group reflection questions to facilitate on-demand learning, considerations for use with partners, and an action-planning tool for teams to bring knowledge into action. 

Explore how to incorporate knowledge into practice and systems to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families. 

Explore how legal and judicial professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Hear about effectiveness in child welfare from a legal representative’s perspective.

Hear a tribal perspective on effectiveness in child welfare.

Hear an agency leadership perspective on effectiveness in child welfare.

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

Explore the impact of perceptions, attitudes, and organizational culture in child welfare. 

Explore and reflect on the impact of, and opportunities to improve, assessment and decision-making processes. 

Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

Listen in as parents and workers share their perspectives on the value of and approaches to improving comprehensive assessment of parents. 

Explore successful cross-system collaboration across three phases of child welfare interactions with families experiencing co-occurring issues—front-end investigation, case planning/service provision, and case resolution. 

Explore how having access to the right information at the right time can improve assessment and decision-making at the child/family level, and how aggregate data can be used to support system improvements. 

Use this reflection worksheet while viewing the Safety Decision-Making: Using Protective Capacities and Protective Factors video. 

Use this Reflection Worksheet while viewing the video, The Full View: Comprehensive Assessment of Parents.