This guide is designed to support administrative leaders in states and other jurisdictions in using data to assess and identify ways to improve their service array.

See statistics on increased risks for LGBTQ youth and learn how child welfare systems can use healthy approaches when working with LGBTQ children and youth.

Use this tool with your prevention planning team to prepare for and tackle the adaptive challenges that many states face as they develop and implement prevention plans. 

Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

Understand the role of coaching in supporting workers, including coaching functions, effectiveness, models, and strategies.

Get informed about creating normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care and browse relevant examples.

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

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

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

Learn how to create an agency organizational culture that is inclusive and knowledgeable about the unique needs of LGBTQ children, youth, and families.

Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

Find out where evidence-based programs and services are being implemented to prevent children from entering foster care.

Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

Use this discussion guide with the “Reflecting on Racial Equity and Prevention-Focused Systems” video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Use this discussion guide with the “Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Family First Prevention Services Act” video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.