Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Learn how Anntesha’s experience as a child living with her grandparents and later in foster care influenced her to become a relative caregiver to her niece and nephew and work as a kinship navigator. 

Discover how to examine and drill down into state data to build understanding of what’s happening in your child welfare system.

Explore how data reported in AFCARS about youth who run away from state custody can be used to inform interventions.

Use this guide for tips, and strategies concerning the critical role leadership plays in creating and sustaining positive organizational culture.

This video highlights the story of a therapeutic foster care social worker in North Carolina and how her own experience in kinship care helps her connect with kinship caregivers and engage families.

Watch a discussion on focusing on job-specific skills (instead of best practices culture), training in a virtual environment, and integrating racial equity across child welfare training.

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

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

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

Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

Explore ways that jurisdictions can integrate strategies to promote equity in continuous quality improvement (CQI) and evaluation efforts. 

Get guidance for completing the CQI self-assessment instrument, see suggested sources for local assessment data, and learn to rate assessment results.

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

The Center for States’ virtual Exhibit Hall booth features several products that focus on workforce development, including a variety of publications, videos, and learning experiences to help agencies foster healthy and supportive environments for child welfare professionals.