Addresses the critical importance of having a strong support network to face the challenges of becoming a kinship resource and caring for children who have experienced trauma. This video highlights one mother's perspective on making the decision to become a kinship parent and the rewards brought by providing care for her kinship daughters.

Highlights the significant impact agency staff have on the kinship and foster parent experience and in helping families serve as a resource for the birth families of the children in their care. This video presents one family's story of becoming a kinship resource and how support from their foster care specialist guided their decision.

Spotlights how agency support and resources helped one kinship family identify creative solutions to challenges they faced. In this video, a parent reflects on her family's experience with the kinship program and how it enabled her to connect and collaborate with her kinship son's biological family.

Highlights the role agency resources and family support can play in helping kinship families face challenges. This video discusses an aunt's decision to become a full-time caregiver for her niece and her niece's daughter, and the importance home visits played in the transition.

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.

Discusses new software and technologies used in child welfare.

Explore how child welfare agency leaders, managers, teams, and stakeholders can understand and assess readiness.

Learn about the Youth Welfare approach, which outlines how agencies can shift from a child-focused system to a youth-focused system.

Learn about theory of change and why it is critical to implementing effective changes to improve outcomes. 

Learn about applications that can make information gathering more efficient, increase useful data, and help you better understand those you serve. 

Learn step-by-step how to build teams for the change and implementation process.

Assists readers in exploring the Youth Welfare approach to service provision in the area of health care.

Summarizes the change and implementation process and provides an overview of the Change and Implementation in Practice series briefs, “how to” guides that explain key steps and tasks in the process.

Examine current research and how best to build organizational capacity in five areas, and learn about possible challenges and solutions.

Read recent research on child welfare workforce management, including recruitment and retention, professional development, and organizational culture.