Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

Browse the themes and key takeaways from the How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options podcast series.

Examine current research and how best to build organizational capacity in five areas, and learn about possible challenges and solutions.

Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

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

Learn about the identified five dimensions of capacity, browse examples of each, and find out why each dimension is important to an organization.

Discover strategies for co-creating and sharing power with youth and families in child welfare.

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.

Access strategies to better understand and implement the family engagement requirements of the FFPSA.

Learn about normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care in the context of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183).

Get informed about creating normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care and browse relevant examples.