Browse the themes and key takeaways from the How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options podcast series.

Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

Use this discussion guide with the CWVE 2021 videos to access a description of each topic, individual reflection questions to facilitate personal, on-demand learning, and conversation starters and team activities for child welfare staff and collaborative partners.  

Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 CWVE Session 4 webinar, Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace. 

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

Explore strategies to help child welfare organizations create equity in the workplace. 

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Learn how supervisors and program managers can assist child welfare caseworkers in conducting quality visits with parents.

Explore resources related to Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace video. 

In this episode leaders from the District of Columbia child welfare agency and a community collaborative organization discuss their longstanding partnership. The commissioner for Kentucky's child welfare agency describes the agency’s strategic communication plan and considers the role of the agency as part of the larger child welfare system.

Explore coaching steps and tips supervisors can use to help workers strengthen skills and meet goals.

Learn a research-informed framework for agencies to explore implementation of CQI systems across seven areas, including leadership support and modeling, staff and stakeholder engagement, communication, administrative structure, use of quality data, case record review process, and application of CQI findings.

Read about the value of collaboration as the key to prevention, safety, and long-term stability for children and families.

Listen to Indiana’s child welfare partners talk about making the shift to an upstream approach to prevention services possible in this short podcast.