Find meaningful and actionable connections among your agency’s strategic planning, review, and CQI efforts using this toolkit.

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.

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.

Learn about how Jamall reunified with family members and enjoyed family cookouts and holidays with the help of Jennifer and the Family Finder program through Kinnect Ohio.

Learn about Jennifer’s commitment to facilitating belonging and lifelong support for children in foster care through the Kinnect Ohio Family Finding program.

Learn about Jamall’s reunification with his mother, grandmother, and other family members through Kinnect Ohio’s Finding Family program.

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

Learn how to support state planning and implementation of the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), which is required by the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183), to help children and youth in foster care experience normal childhood and adolescent activities. 

Explore the process of transitioning to a prevention-focused child welfare system from several perspectives, including those of a mother and son with lived experience and leaders who set the tone and direction for putting families at the center of child welfare work.