Explore tools, resources, and strategies to build a continuum of behavioral health care for children and youth involved with child welfare. 

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

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. 

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

Access strategies to better understand and implement the family engagement requirements of the FFPSA.

Develop a better understanding of customized congregate care and learn about implementing the FFPSA provisions in congregate care QRTP assessment.

Learn solid strategies for understanding and implementing the trauma-informed care provisions of the FFPSA.

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.