Explore additional resources for engaging individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more.

Explore additional resources to learn how to accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Explores how to design, integrate, and implement financial capability services into existing programs targeted at youth who are transitioning out of foster care to help them manage their financial resources and avoid chronic financial instability. 

Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

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

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).

Use this discussion guide with the CWVE 2022 videos to view a description of each topic, access individual reflection questions to facilitate personal, on-demand learning, and explore conversation starters and team activities with child welfare staff and collaborative partners.   

Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

Find family engagement strategies for survivors, children, and perpetrators of domestic violence.

Provides an overview of resources and strategies to enhance approaches for providing financial capability training for youth who are transitioning out of foster care. 

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

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

Discover how parent partner programs support family reunification by guiding and motivating parents into constructive interactions with the child welfare system and courts.

Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services.