Learn how leveraging NGO connections in the community can help child welfare systems be more flexible and adaptable in achieving program goals.

Get ideas for working with community foundations, endowments, and charitable trusts to improve outcomes for children and youth.

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

Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

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.

Explore and discuss state performance on CFSR statewide data indicators.

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

Learn about the challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) families involved with the child welfare system and ways to help them.

Learn how to create an agency organizational culture that is inclusive and knowledgeable about the unique needs of LGBTQ children, youth, and families.

Discusses the task of reviewing readiness assessment findings to plan for capacity building.

Examines the tasks of consolidating and reviewing the implementation plan before completing and putting it in place.

Explores the implementation planning task of developing strategies to build capacity for intervention implementation at a child welfare agency.

Focuses on planning for capacity building by exploring the task of developing strategies to strengthen motivation among child welfare staff and stakeholders for implementing an intervention.

Examines the task of building work plan activities to get the intervention ready before implementation begins.