Explore strategies to engage individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more. 

Learn strategies for accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Learn about the challenges of engaging difficult-to-reach populations of youth and young adults. 

Learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise. 

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Hear a summary of the 2022 CWVE themes and learn strategies for moving forward with prioritizing lived expertise in child welfare. 

Explore ways to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare.

Learn how people with lived expertise have used their experiences to advocate for changes in approach, practice, and policy in child welfare. 

Learn why the Indian Child Welfare Act and the historical trauma Indigenous people have experienced are important to understand when working with Indigenous families. 

Learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

Discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare.