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

Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.

Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

Browse casework activities to use before, during, and after a caseworker visit with children, youth, and families.

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

Use this discussion guide with the "Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Child Welfare Workforce" video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Explore resources related to Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace video. 

See how listening and relatability helped build trust between a youth and his attorney.

Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

Underscores the importance of consistency and encouragement in trusting relationships. A Fostering Success peer mentor gave impactful advice to the youth she mentored: Stop listening to the people who don’t believe in you.

Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

Discover strategies to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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.