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Podcast

Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia, service providers, partners in community collaboratives, and sister agencies talk about how they coordinate service planning and delivery, are culturally responsive to the community, and provide seamless services to families.

Publication Year 2020
PDF

Browse the “Leading Your Agency Through a Disaster” tip sheet to see how common elements of child welfare leadership can be adapted for effective disaster management and an example of action during each phase of disaster management.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Get the latest research on decision science and safety decision-making practices in child welfare to help improved safety outcomes.

Publication Year 2017
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2021
PDF

This tool is a role-playing activity, designed to help child welfare workers and supervisors become more familiar with the process of recognizing and translating buzzwords into descriptive language.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

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

Publication Year 2017
Podcast

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

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

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

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

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

Publication Year 2023
Video

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.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

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

Publication Year 2016
Video

Watch this recorded webinar to learn how other jurisdictions encourage kinship care placements and then discuss kinship support with your team.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator maltreatment in foster care.

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

​​Increase awareness and understanding of the healthcare needs of children and youth in foster care, the medical services available to them, and the healthcare services available for children who return home and youth who age out of care.​ 

Publication Year 2015