Browse the themes and key takeaways from the How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options podcast series.

Access strategies to better understand and implement the family engagement requirements of the FFPSA.

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

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

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.

Explore the process of transitioning to a prevention-focused child welfare system from several perspectives, including those of a mother and son with lived experience and leaders who set the tone and direction for putting families at the center of child welfare work.

Explore the efforts agencies, community collaborative organizations, and others are making to bring families, youth, and communities to the table as they strive to improve the child welfare system in this podcast. 

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

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

Discover how the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) has been implemented in one state to promote normalcy for children and youth in foster care.

Read about the value of collaboration as the key to prevention, safety, and long-term stability for children and families.

Explore tools and resources that can help states plan for family-strengthening activities aligned with the FFPSA and prevention-oriented collaboration strategies.