In this video, presenters share their experiences with leading and being led by those around them in child welfare and offer practical strategies for child welfare professionals, no matter their role, to lead and support each other in leadership roles.

Hear from Capacity Building Center for States Family and Young Adult Consultants with lived experience on the critical role leaders play in advancing well-being, resilience, and dedication of the child welfare workforce.

Hear from leaders as they reflect on transformational leadership and its importance in child welfare.

Explore the benefits of and strategies for recruiting and integrating people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

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

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

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

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.

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

Listen in as parents and workers share their perspectives on the value of and approaches to improving comprehensive assessment of parents. 

Explore models and approaches for targeting safety outcomes.

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

Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

Explore the Center’s Focused Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Services training curriculum and learn more about how it can be used to support a team’s CQI goals.

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