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

Use this project management resource to plan for the development of a Program Improvement Plan (PIP). 

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

Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.

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

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

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

Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

Use the guide and digital stories from this library with teams and individuals to advocate, inspire, support, recruit, train, and coach towards a better child welfare system. 

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

Use this brief to explore actionable strategies for meaningful partner engagement in child welfare agency strategic planning, monitoring, and review processes.

Use this brief to help your agency coordinate strategic and long-term planning, monitoring, and reporting processes—such as the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR)—with agency continuous quality improvement (CQI).

Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce.