This guide is designed to support administrative leaders in states and other jurisdictions in using data to assess and identify ways to improve their service array.

See statistics on increased risks for LGBTQ youth and learn how child welfare systems can use healthy approaches when working with LGBTQ children and youth.

Understand the role of coaching in supporting workers, including coaching functions, effectiveness, models, and strategies.

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

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

Learn how to create an agency organizational culture that is inclusive and knowledgeable about the unique needs of LGBTQ children, youth, and families.

Find out where evidence-based programs and services are being implemented to prevent children from entering foster care.

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

Use this discussion guide with the “Reflecting on Racial Equity and Prevention-Focused Systems” video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Use this discussion guide with the “Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Family First Prevention Services Act” video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Explore tips and strategies to effectively engage and sustain the involvement of families and youth at the agency level. 

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

Adapt  policies and practices to meet the growing needs of LGBTQ children, youth, and families. 

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.