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.

Learn about various instruments used to measure well-being for program, case planning, and evaluation purposes.

Learn the importance of effective, ongoing collaboration between child welfare agencies and community-based partners.

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

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

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

Get the latest research on decision science and safety decision-making practices in child welfare to help improved safety outcomes.

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

Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

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.

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.

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.