Use this tool with your prevention planning team to prepare for and tackle the adaptive challenges that many states face as they develop and implement prevention plans. 

Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

Learn effective strategies to collect, analyze, and use data related to caseworker visits.

Access strategies to better understand and implement the family engagement requirements of the FFPSA.

Get informed about creating normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care and browse relevant examples.

Learn about normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care in the context of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183).

Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

Find family engagement strategies for survivors, children, and perpetrators of domestic violence.

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

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

Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.