Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.

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

Browse a list of organizations that offer training activities with defined learning objectives, including self-paced e-learnings, webinars, or videos.

Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

Use this brief to explore actionable strategies for meaningful partner engagement in child welfare agency strategic planning, monitoring, and review processes.

Explore the key components of engaging youth and families in individual permanency planning.

Explore ways to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) children and youth.

Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

Explore how caseworkers, supervisors, and stakeholders can use data and feedback to improve child welfare practice. 

Explore how child welfare leaders and decision makers can communicate data effectively. 

Support agency staff in the authentic engagement of youth and families in individual permanency planning processes.

The journeys of children, youth, and families in child welfare are seldom a straight line. Typically, there are highs and lows and winding paths in between

Adapt  policies and practices to meet the growing needs of LGBTQ children, youth, and families. 

Explore tools and resources that can help states plan for family-strengthening activities aligned with the FFPSA and prevention-oriented collaboration strategies.

Get a detailed overview of unregulated transfers of custody, covering risk of harm, screening, ICPC violations, and more.