Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Examine new software and technology innovations, which provide better, more integrated services and cut costs for states and jurisdictions.

Learn how to effectively present data in digestible and actionable ways that lead to real change.

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

 Watch as staff from the Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Family Services share their journey from development to implementation of a clinical supervision program.

In this introduction to the podcast series How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options, agency leaders talk about the changing culture of their organizations. Leaders from Kentucky discuss their Child Welfare Transformation initiative, three transformational goals, and culture of safety.

A look at strategies, initiatives, and frameworks that infuse racial equity into everyday operations in the child welfare system.

Explore and discuss state performance on CFSR statewide data indicators.

This video highlights the story of a program manager and lead navigator for the Montana Kinship Navigator Program and how her own experience caring for a nephew helps her better support and connect with kinship caregivers and families.

Learn to use the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance for a state on all or selected statewide data indicators.

Learn about applications that can make information gathering more efficient, increase useful data, and help you better understand those you serve. 

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

The kinship caregivers featured in the video series speak candidly about the challenges they face, the support they need, and the rewards that motivate them to continue. Use this video series and discussion guide to create a more supportive environment and develop an agency culture that responds to caregivers’ needs.