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

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s quality assurance system is functioning.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s statewide information system is functioning.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

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

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

Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

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

Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

Listen to a judge and a child welfare agency leader discuss the challenges, achievements, and strategies of the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court. This longstanding collaboration between the child welfare, substance use treatment, and judicial systems has been steadily growing its Family Treatment Court Team and improving outcomes for families since 2001.

Helps public child welfare agencies understand the purpose of and context for the Creating LGBTQ Affirming Agencies video and how the video can be used to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) children, youth, and families who are involved in the child welfare system.