Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

Learn sound methods for integrating a focus on race equity in data analysis and CQI. 

Build skills in community engagement in quality improvement and enhanced data exploration. 

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

Learn about the practice and systemic changes Hawaii, Indiana, and Westchester County, NY, made in partnership with their youth and young adult partners.

Hear how Division X Technical Assistance Targeted Assistance Projects (TAPs) helped child welfare agencies enhance policies and practices for youth and young adults.

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Watch and discuss what you hear from firsthand accounts of resource parents sharing the impact of support and collaborative partnerships when working with children, youth, and their families. Agencies can use the videos and discussion guide to explore the impact of agency staff, peer, family, and community support structures on resource parents. 

Pair this recorded webinar with the discussion guide to learn caregiver and birth parent partnerships and trauma-informed visitation. 

Listen to a judge and a child welfare agency leader discuss the challenges, achievements, and strategies of the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court. This longstanding collaboration between the child welfare, substance use treatment, and judicial systems has been steadily growing its Family Treatment Court Team and improving outcomes for families since 2001.

Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia talk about how they work with partners to use their different data lenses to understand the needs of families and to structure a set of services to best meet the full spectrum of needs. In Kentucky, child welfare agency leaders describe the process of finding the story behind the numbers to transform their system.

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.