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

Explains the importance of sustained involvement of young people currently and formerly in foster care in meaningful organizational activity. 

Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

Get practical guidance for building organizational capacity and for implementing flexible and innovate programs for youth engagement.

Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

Learn the characteristics and results that describe the right people to engage youth and get guidance for recruiting, hiring, and retaining these employees.

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

Defines prepermanancy services for prospective adoptive and guardianship families and raises awareness about the need for more prepermanency services supports alongside postpermanency supports.

Get an overview of the issues related to the physical and emotional safety of child welfare workers.

Learn how to build capacity in each of four component areas to promote a culture and climate that encourages youth engagement at all levels of an organization.

Understand the role of coaching in supporting workers, including coaching functions, effectiveness, models, and strategies.

See how workforce satisfaction and retention are improved by emphasizing the positive differences that are made in the lives of children and families.

Explore information and get guidance about sex trafficking and identification of sex trafficking victims.

Learn how to create an agency organizational culture that is inclusive and knowledgeable about the unique needs of LGBTQ children, youth, and families.

Get informed about creating normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care and browse relevant examples.