Use this guide for tips, and strategies concerning the critical role leadership plays in creating and sustaining positive organizational culture.

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

Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 CWVE Session 4 webinar, Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace. 

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

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

Helps child welfare agencies respond to the need to alter practice and communication routines when “normal” child welfare services have been disrupted and better prepare agencies for future disruptions

Browse a list of organizations that offer training activities with defined learning objectives, including self-paced e-learnings, webinars, or videos.

Explore resources related to Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace video. 

Get an overview of the issues related to the physical and emotional safety of child welfare workers.

Addressed developmentally appropriate services for youth in foster care and identified best practices for Federal support of States and territories in implementing provisions of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113-183).

Explore the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity that supports engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care.

Learn how to build capacity in each of four component areas to promote a culture and climate that encourages youth engagement at all levels of an organization.

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