Learn about the practice and systemic changes Hawaii, Indiana, and Westchester County, NY, made in partnership with their youth and young adult partners.

Examine current research and how best to build organizational capacity in five areas, and learn about possible challenges and solutions.

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

Learn about the identified five dimensions of capacity, browse examples of each, and find out why each dimension is important to an organization.

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Provides a broad overview of the Child Welfare Response to Child and Youth Sex Trafficking learning curriculum and explores how the curriculum could be integrated into agency training programs.

Explore additional resources and learn strategies for moving forward with prioritizing lived expertise in child welfare.

Discover strategies for co-creating and sharing power with youth and families in child welfare.

See how coordination can improve identification, reporting, and services for youth who are victims or at risk of becoming victims of sex trafficking.

Learn about normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care in the context of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183).

Get informed about creating normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care and browse relevant examples.

Learn about the values of cultural competence, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and how to implement them at a child welfare agency.  

Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 CWVE Session 3 webinar, From Understanding to Action: Shifting Power Dynamics to Advance Race Equity.