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.

Discover the key components of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training Academy.

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.

Discusses new software and technologies used in child welfare.

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

Understand available technologies and best practices for holding virtual meetings.

Learn how child welfare agencies can transfer select operations online and out of a central worksite.

Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.

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

Explore a family-focused program that embodies many of the changes that Kentucky wants to see throughout its child welfare system in this podcast. The START, program demonstrates a shift in organizational culture to focus on family and serves as an example of a truly collaborative team that uses early intervention and a shared decision-making model to work with families.

Explore models and approaches for targeting safety outcomes.

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

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

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