Hop into the car for a road trip with South Carolina's Child Welfare Services Division. Hear how they left a climate driven by compliance and fear and made their way to a new culture.

In this video, leaders of the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services discuss the positive impact of collaboration between child welfare and mental health systems.

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 how to foster psychological safety on child welfare teams, promote bravery, and cultivate resilient and supportive workplace environments at child welfare agencies.

Shares Stephen’s story about being a community-based provider and policymaker in Florida, the need for laws that empower caregiver decision-making, creating Florida’s reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), and the effect RPPS and normalcy laws can have on foster care.

In this video, presenters share their experiences with leading and being led by those around them in child welfare and offer practical strategies for child welfare professionals, no matter their role, to lead and support each other in leadership roles.

Listen as Capacity Building Center for States Family Consultants and Young Adult Consultants reflect on the key themes and learnings from day one of the 2024 CWVE.

Listen as Capacity Building Center for States Family Consultants and Young Adult Consultants reflect on the key themes and learnings from day two of the 2024 CWVE.

Listen as leaders from tribal communities share their stories and experiences in driving transformative change within child welfare systems.

Learn how leadership engagement can drive foundational change through the CFSR.

Hear from leaders as they reflect on transformational leadership and its importance in child welfare.

Hear from Capacity Building Center for States Family and Young Adult Consultants with lived experience on the critical role leaders play in advancing well-being, resilience, and dedication of the child welfare workforce.

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 the caseworker visits a mother after her children were removed from her home.

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