Use the FALA Assessment Tool with your team to assess current strengths and areas for growth in family-agency partnership.
 

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

Use this discussion guide with the "Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Child Welfare Workforce" video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

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

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

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

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

Understand available technologies and best practices for holding virtual meetings.

Find out how simulation training is used in child welfare and learn the five key steps for developing and implementing a simulation programs.

Learn how child welfare agencies can transfer select operations online and out of a central worksite.

Examine current research and how best to build organizational capacity in five areas, and learn about possible challenges and solutions.

Discusses new software and technologies used in child welfare.

Read recent research on child welfare workforce management, including recruitment and retention, professional development, and organizational culture.

Desiree is an alumna of the foster care system. She lived with the same foster care family for 14 years. She entered foster care with three of her siblings, and wants to use her experiences growing up in foster care to make a difference for those still in the system.

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