Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Explore the supportive relationship between a youth and her attorney.

Reveals how advocating for youth makes a difference in system change and in the advocates’ own lives. The Director of Policy and Advocacy at NMCAN and a youth advocate talk about their shared experience in testifying as expert witnesses for state legislative committees and how it created a strong bond between them.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

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

Highlights the advocacy work of state and regional youth leadership councils. Two paid regional and state youth specialists and the Texas Director for Transitional Living Services describe how including youth voice by providing them a “seat at the table” at the state capital enhances the child welfare system. All three discuss the rewards and personal impact of their work.

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

Tells the story of the relationship, initially forged over a shared meal, between a youth and her CASA worker. The CASA worker’s advocacy for concrete supports to meet the youth’s needs helped grow the trust in their relationship.

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

Tells the story of the relationship between a youth in foster care and a BraveLife peer navigator. Both talk about the personal sharing and mutual trust that have forged a connection that will last a lifetime.

Set the groundwork for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the CFSR.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s quality assurance system is functioning.

See how listening and relatability helped build trust between a youth and his attorney.