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

Examine the benefits of engaging youth voice in practice, peer support, and system-level change.

Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services. 

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

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.

Hear about the challenges and experiences of an adoptive family and how they created belonging, healthy development, and normal experiences.

This handout is part of the series, “Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions.” It is designed to facilitate discussion about the issues raised in the video, “Kinship Adoption: You Get a Call, ‘Do You Want These Kids?’”

Explore additional resources on how to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare. 

Explore ways to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare.

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

Underscores the importance of consistency and encouragement in trusting relationships. A Fostering Success peer mentor gave impactful advice to the youth she mentored: Stop listening to the people who don’t believe in you.

Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

Discover strategies to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce.