Explore innovative programs and strategies that child welfare professionals can use to support reunification and emphasize caregiver and parent voice.

Use the resources in this list to support young people’s transitional needs and help them develop the skills needed for independent living after exiting foster care.

Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

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

Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

Set the groundwork for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the CFSR.

Read this resource to learn about direct financial assistance and emergency financial assistance available to young people.

Explore strategies for redesigning the child welfare service array to meet the needs of youth and young adults currently and formerly in foster care.

Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

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

Explore strategies to recruit and support caregivers, strengthen their voices, and work together with them to meet the needs of children and youth.

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

Explore tips to help promote youth mental health and wellness services, jurisdictional highlights, and links to relevant resources and tools.

Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

Addressed developmentally appropriate services for youth in foster care and identified best practices for Federal support of States and territories in implementing provisions of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113-183).