Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Discover services and resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare. 

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

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

Learn about the Children’s Bureau’s commitment to racial and other equity in its work and the actions the Children’s Bureau is taking to advance racial equity in child welfare. 

Learn about the importance of successful collaboration and engagement for implementing prevention-focused systems.

Learn to be more intentional about creating opportunities to relate to the staff and families you serve and to infuse more empathy into your agency.

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits a 16-year-old youth months after a placement.

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits with a resource parent shortly after child placement.

This video highlights engagement as the caseworker visits a mother after her children were removed from her home.

This video highlights engagement as the caseworker visits a father in the county jail after his children were removed from his home.

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker and supervisor work together on the family’s case.

Buzzwords: Moving to Behavioral Descriptors doodle video is a short, animated video that follows a child involved in a child welfare investigation. The video describes what buzzwords are and illustrates the impact they can have on children and families. It also demonstrates how to recognize buzzwords and offers strategies for transforming buzzwords into objective, behavior-based descriptors.

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.