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

Learn about organizational capacity to assess readiness and how it impacts retention of people with lived expertise in child welfare agencies.
 

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

Watch a discussion on focusing on job-specific skills (instead of best practices culture), training in a virtual environment, and integrating racial equity across child welfare training.

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

Use this discussion guide with CWVE 2023 videos to explore topics on workforce recruitment and retention, as well as access individual reflection exercises, discussion prompts, and team activities.

Explore how to use human resources data to address worker turnover with guides, resources, and videos from the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development.

Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

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

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Explore the key components of engaging youth and families in individual permanency planning.

Support agency staff in the authentic engagement of youth and families in individual permanency planning processes.

The journeys of children, youth, and families in child welfare are seldom a straight line. Typically, there are highs and lows and winding paths in between

Learn to be more intentional about creating opportunities to relate to the staff and families you serve and to infuse more empathy into your agency.