Explore additional resources to learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

Explore additional resources to discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare. 

Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

Examine the benefits of engaging youth voice in practice, peer support, and system-level change.

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

Explore tips and strategies to effectively engage and sustain the involvement of families and youth at the agency level. 

Read about the services available under two federal programs and how to use them to improve outcomes for pregnant or parenting youth in out-of-home care.

This “Service Array Data Inventory Sample Worksheet” (Worksheet) is a companion tool to A Data-Driven Approach to Service Array Guide developed by the Capacity Building Center for States. To use the Worksheet, you can print it out and fill in the blank squares, or use the questions as a guide.

This guide is designed to support administrative leaders in states and other jurisdictions in using data to assess and identify ways to improve their service array.

Learn about adolescent brain development, trauma-responsive care, and the importance of normalcy.

Get practical guidance for building organizational capacity and for implementing flexible and innovate programs for youth engagement.

Learn how to build capacity in each of four component areas to promote a culture and climate that encourages youth engagement at all levels of an organization.

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