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.

Learn how jurisdictions across the country respond to human trafficking cases and explore the latest developments in effective intervention.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explore information and get guidance about sex trafficking and identification of sex trafficking victims.

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

Learn about resources to support child welfare agencies as they implement requirements of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183) that prevent sex trafficking and improve child welfare responses to trafficking victims. 

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.