Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

This video highlights the story of a school social worker in Rhode Island and her experience becoming a foster parent to a student who did not have a relative placement.

Explore the benefits of and strategies for recruiting and integrating people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

Learn how people with lived expertise have used their experiences to advocate for changes in approach, practice, and policy in child welfare. 

Explore how caseworkers, supervisors, and stakeholders can use data and feedback to improve child welfare practice. 

Learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

This video highlights the story of a family specialist in Ohio and her experience working with families to successfully place children with kin.

This video highlights the story of a kinship specialist with the New York City Children’s Services and how she collaborates with fellow child welfare agencies in identifying kinship guardians to result in successful kin placement.

Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

Discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare. 

Explore actions that can lead to building authentic, collaborative, and prevention-focused child welfare systems.