Explore additional resources to learn how to accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Explore additional resources for engaging individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more.

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

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

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

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

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

Use this discussion guide with the CWVE 2022 videos to view a description of each topic, access individual reflection questions to facilitate personal, on-demand learning, and explore conversation starters and team activities with child welfare staff and collaborative partners.   

Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services. 

Explore additional resources on how to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare. 

Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

Engage staff and partners with activities in this guide to start a dialogue and create a vision for a more prevention-focused child welfare system.

Read about the value of collaboration as the key to prevention, safety, and long-term stability for children and families.

Listen to a judge and a child welfare agency leader discuss the challenges, achievements, and strategies of the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court. This longstanding collaboration between the child welfare, substance use treatment, and judicial systems has been steadily growing its Family Treatment Court Team and improving outcomes for families since 2001.

Explore a family-focused program that embodies many of the changes that Kentucky wants to see throughout its child welfare system in this podcast. The START, program demonstrates a shift in organizational culture to focus on family and serves as an example of a truly collaborative team that uses early intervention and a shared decision-making model to work with families.