Highlights evaluation results of the University of Illinois Child Protection Training Academy simulation training. Evaluator Ted Cross provides a summary of key findings related to child welfare investigators’ confidence in the ability to do their jobs and worker retention. 

Listen to a youth support partner tell her story of living in kinship care with her grandmother and being reunified with her mother. She discusses the difficulties during her time in care and the system support that might have helped to promote a better relationship with her mother. As a mentor, she helps youth heal from trauma and use their voice in positive ways.

Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

This video introduces and conveys the impact of simulation training.

This video shows the experience of trainees engaging with the family actors in a safe space.

This video increases familiarity with the benefits of simulation, including how simulation can strengthen worker skills and improve worker confidence and readiness for practice. 

This video develops an understanding of key considerations for sustaining and continuously improving a simulation training effort and how to overcome common challenges.

This video builds an understanding of key considerations for developing and scaling up a simulation training effort and how to overcome common challenges.

This video describes the debriefing process and explain how it is integral to simulation training.

This video builds awareness of how realistic environments contribute to learning.

This video builds awareness of what the court sim lab looks like and what the experience is like for participants.

This video builds awareness of what the medical sim lab looks like and what the experience is like for participants.

Find out how simulation training is used in child welfare and learn the five key steps for developing and implementing a simulation programs.

Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

Watch as Amnoni relates her experience in the foster car system, including her struggles and quest for stability and normalcy.