Learn about applications that can make information gathering more efficient, increase useful data, and help you better understand those you serve. 

Read recent research on child welfare workforce management, including recruitment and retention, professional development, and organizational culture.

Explore and reflect on the impact of, and opportunities to improve, assessment and decision-making processes. 

Explore how having access to the right information at the right time can improve assessment and decision-making at the child/family level, and how aggregate data can be used to support system improvements. 

Desiree is an alumna of the foster care system. She lived with the same foster care family for 14 years. She entered foster care with three of her siblings, and wants to use her experiences growing up in foster care to make a difference for those still in the system.

Learn how domestic violence and child maltreatment affect families and read about the risks, impacts, protective efforts, and other related topics.

Find information about using collaborative practices and models across human service systems to better serve families dealing with co-occurring issues.

Learn the importance of effective, ongoing collaboration between child welfare agencies and community-based partners.

Get the basics on general practice for agency interventions, including screening, documenting descriptions of abuse and protective efforts, and evaluating risk.

Get practical guidance for building organizational capacity and for implementing flexible and innovate programs for youth engagement.

Defines prepermanancy services for prospective adoptive and guardianship families and raises awareness about the need for more prepermanency services supports alongside postpermanency supports.

Examine foundational information and suggestions for effective casework and supporting examples for families experiencing domestic violence.

Explains the importance of sustained involvement of young people currently and formerly in foster care in meaningful organizational activity. 

Learn about adolescent brain development, trauma-responsive care, and the importance of normalcy.

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