Explore additional resources for engaging individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more.

Learn strategies for accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Explore additional resources to learn how to accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

This video highlights the story of a therapeutic foster care social worker in North Carolina and how her own experience in kinship care helps her connect with kinship caregivers and engage families.

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

Explores how to design, integrate, and implement financial capability services into existing programs targeted at youth who are transitioning out of foster care to help them manage their financial resources and avoid chronic financial instability. 

Explore opportunities and lessons learned from the implementation of Division X of the Supporting Foster Youth and Families Through the Pandemic Act, P.L. 116–260.

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.

Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

Listen to a foster care advocate’s mental health journey.

See how workforce satisfaction and retention are improved by emphasizing the positive differences that are made in the lives of children and families.

Explore information and strategies for advancing racial equity through problem exploration.

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

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