Frankie is 14 years old and lives with his sister, brothers, and moms. He and his sister were adopted when they were 2 years old and 4 years old, respectively. He loves spending time with his aunts, uncles, and cousins and loves being part of a big family.

Learn how Anntesha’s experience as a child living with her grandparents and later in foster care influenced her to become a relative caregiver to her niece and nephew and work as a kinship navigator. 

Discover how to examine and drill down into state data to build understanding of what’s happening in your child welfare system.

Explore how frontline child welfare professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Explore how child welfare leaders, managers, and supervisors can motivate their staff to use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

This video highlights the story of a therapeutic foster care social worker in North Carolina and how her own experience in kinship care helps her connect with kinship caregivers and engage families.

Learn about Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative's evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process.

Learn about the importance of successful collaboration and engagement for implementing prevention-focused systems.

Learn about the Collaborative and the work it does with agencies, Tribes, and courts to build capacity.

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

Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

Understand the principles underlying service provisioning for the Collaborative, in addition to goals, audiences, objectives, and examples.

Learn about the identified five dimensions of capacity, browse examples of each, and find out why each dimension is important to an organization.

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

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