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Video

Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

PDF

This tool is a role-playing activity, designed to help child welfare workers and supervisors become more familiar with the process of recognizing and translating buzzwords into descriptive language.

Video

Learn about the Capacity Building Center for States’ diversity, racial equity, and inclusion terms and definitions and the importance of shared language to advance equity. 

PDF

Explore the Capacity Building Center for States’ most up-to-date diversity, racial equity, and inclusion terms and definitions. 

Webinar

Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

Webinar

Hear how Division X Technical Assistance Targeted Assistance Projects (TAPs) helped child welfare agencies enhance policies and practices for youth and young adults.

Webinar

Available on CapLEARN; registration required.

Watch and discuss what you hear from firsthand accounts of resource parents sharing the impact of support and collaborative partnerships when working with children, youth, and their families. Agencies can use the videos and discussion guide to explore the impact of agency staff, peer, family, and community support structures on resource parents. 

PDF

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

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Explore additional resources to learn about the challenges of engaging difficult-to-reach populations of youth and young adults.

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Examine new software and technology innovations, which provide better, more integrated services and cut costs for states and jurisdictions.

Podcast

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

Podcast

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

Podcast

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Podcast

Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.

Video

Learn how to effectively present data in digestible and actionable ways that lead to real change.