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. 

Illustrates the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity supporting engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care. Each of the four segments succinctly defines an element of organizational capacity building for youth engagement.

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.

Get practical guidance for building organizational capacity and for implementing flexible and innovate programs for youth engagement.

Learn the characteristics and results that describe the right people to engage youth and get guidance for recruiting, hiring, and retaining these employees.