This National Foster Care Month (NFCM) event explores how agencies can partner with young people in the foster care system to build strong, supportive networks and achieve relational permanency.

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

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

Hear a foster and adoptive father of African American boys talk about fighting cultural biases to support his sons’ well-being.

Listen to a foster care advocate’s mental health journey.

Learn about the Capacity Building Center for States’ diversity, racial equity, and inclusion terms and definitions and the importance of shared language to advance equity. 

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

Examines the tasks of consolidating and reviewing the implementation plan before completing and putting it in place.

Provides information on the task of identifying communication and engagement activities described in the implementation work plan.

Explores the task of building the work plan activities to roll out the intervention and measure the quality of the implementation process, including any piloting or staging of the intervention.

Presents information on the task of building the work plan activities to get the agency ready before implementation begins.

Examines the task of building work plan activities to get the intervention ready before implementation begins.

Focuses on planning for capacity building by exploring the task of developing strategies to strengthen motivation among child welfare staff and stakeholders for implementing an intervention.

Explores the implementation planning task of developing strategies to build capacity for intervention implementation at a child welfare agency.

Discusses the task of reviewing readiness assessment findings to plan for capacity building.