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The Center for States provides research assistance and responds to information requests on building capacity in child welfare.

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Video

Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

Webinar

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

Podcast

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.

Video

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.

PDF

Explore tips and strategies to effectively engage and sustain the involvement of families and youth at the agency level.