Learn how to support LGBTQIA2S+ children and young people at a child welfare agency.

Ensure that youth and young adults exiting foster care can obtain their vital documents before transitioning from foster care.

Explore additional resources to learn how to accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Explore additional resources for engaging individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more.

Use this discussion guide with the CWVE 2022 videos to view a description of each topic, access individual reflection questions to facilitate personal, on-demand learning, and explore conversation starters and team activities with child welfare staff and collaborative partners.   

Explore additional resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare.

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

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

Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

Read about the services available under two federal programs and how to use them to improve outcomes for pregnant or parenting youth in out-of-home care.

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

Get practical guidance for building organizational capacity and for implementing flexible and innovate programs for youth engagement.

Explore the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity that supports engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care.

Learn the characteristics and results that describe the right people to engage youth and get guidance for recruiting, hiring, and retaining these employees.

Learn about adolescent brain development, trauma-responsive care, and the importance of normalcy.