Combine lived expertise with agency perspectives to better understand state child welfare data.

In this video, presenters share their experiences with leading and being led by those around them in child welfare and offer practical strategies for child welfare professionals, no matter their role, to lead and support each other in leadership roles.

Hear from Capacity Building Center for States Family and Young Adult Consultants with lived experience on the critical role leaders play in advancing well-being, resilience, and dedication of the child welfare workforce.

Hear from leaders as they reflect on transformational leadership and its importance in child welfare.

Use the activities in this tool to create a plan to replicate, adapt, or design an intervention to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.

Explore the benefits of and strategies for recruiting and integrating people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

Ensure that youth and young adults exiting foster care can obtain their vital documents before transitioning from foster care.

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Use this resource to prompt discussion and adopt a change management approach  during the development of child welfare information systems.

Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.