Learn strategies for accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Explore strategies to engage 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 and learn strategies for moving forward with prioritizing lived expertise in child welfare.

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. 

Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

Learn about the practice and systemic changes Hawaii, Indiana, and Westchester County, NY, made in partnership with their youth and young adult partners.

Hear how Division X Technical Assistance Targeted Assistance Projects (TAPs) helped child welfare agencies enhance policies and practices for youth and young adults.

Learn how to support state planning and implementation of the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), which is required by the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183), to help children and youth in foster care experience normal childhood and adolescent activities. 

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

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

Learn how to build capacity in each of four component areas to promote a culture and climate that encourages youth engagement at all levels of an organization.

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