Learn how to support LGBTQIA2S+ children and young people at a child welfare agency.

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.

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

Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

Explore a family-focused program that embodies many of the changes that Kentucky wants to see throughout its child welfare system in this podcast. The START, program demonstrates a shift in organizational culture to focus on family and serves as an example of a truly collaborative team that uses early intervention and a shared decision-making model to work with families.

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

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits a 16-year-old youth months after a placement.

This reference guide describes the six short videos and paired discussion guides that demonstrate what quality visits look like in practice within one family system over a period of time. 

Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging a supervisor in coaching for family visits.

Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging youth after removal from their parental home.

Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging resource parents to collaborate around caring for children in foster care.

Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging children after removal from their parental home.

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits with a resource parent shortly after child placement.

Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging the biological mother after removal of the child or children.