Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

Complete this template to create, print, and share a communication plan for your change effort. 

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

Read about our new Young Adult Consultant team member, find helpful information about the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), ways to engage persons with lived experience, and more!

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.

See how coordination can improve identification, reporting, and services for youth who are victims or at risk of becoming victims of sex trafficking.

Shares Stephen’s story about being a community-based provider and policymaker in Florida, the need for laws that empower caregiver decision-making, creating Florida’s reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), and the effect RPPS and normalcy laws can have on foster care.

Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

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

This handout is part of the series, “Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions.” It is designed to facilitate discussion about the issues raised in the video, “Community-Based Provider: Empowering Caregiver Decision-Making.” 

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

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

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

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

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