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.   

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

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

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

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

Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

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

Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Examines the implementation planning task of revisiting the teaming and leadership structures to help agencies facilitate the change and implementation process.

Provides information on the task of identifying communication and engagement activities described in the implementation work plan.

Discusses the task of reviewing readiness assessment findings to plan for capacity building.

Examines the tasks of consolidating and reviewing the implementation plan before completing and putting it in place.

Explores the implementation planning task of developing strategies to build capacity for intervention implementation at a child welfare agency.

Focuses on planning for capacity building by exploring the task of developing strategies to strengthen motivation among child welfare staff and stakeholders for implementing an intervention.