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The Center for States provides research assistance and responds to information requests on building capacity in child welfare.

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Podcast

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.

PDF

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

Video

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

Webinar

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

Infographic

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

Video

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

Podcast

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.

PDF

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

Video

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