Understand available technologies and best practices for holding virtual meetings.

Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

This handout is part of the series, “Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions.” It is designed to facilitate discussion about the issues raised in the video, “Kinship Adoption: You Get a Call, ‘Do You Want These Kids?’”

Hear about the challenges and experiences of an adoptive family and how they created belonging, healthy development, and normal experiences.

Learn how supervisors and program managers can assist child welfare caseworkers in conducting quality visits with parents.

Find meaningful and actionable connections among your agency’s strategic planning, review, and CQI efforts using this toolkit.

Use this brief to explore actionable strategies for meaningful partner engagement in child welfare agency strategic planning, monitoring, and review processes.

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

Explore coaching steps and tips supervisors can use to help workers strengthen skills and meet goals.

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

The journeys of children, youth, and families in child welfare are seldom a straight line. Typically, there are highs and lows and winding paths in between

Explore tools and resources that can help states plan for family-strengthening activities aligned with the FFPSA and prevention-oriented collaboration strategies.

Get a detailed overview of unregulated transfers of custody, covering risk of harm, screening, ICPC violations, and more.

Learn how continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes can improve implementation fidelity and enhance program outcomes at a child welfare agency.

Learn about the Indiana Department of Child Services’ upstream prevention approach to training and development, expanding the service array, and collaborating with system partners and providers in this recorded webinar.