Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 CWVE Session 4 webinar, Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace. 

Explore resources related to Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace video. 

Examine the benefits of engaging youth voice in practice, peer support, and system-level change.

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

Read about the services available under two federal programs and how to use them to improve outcomes for pregnant or parenting youth in out-of-home care.

Explore tips and strategies to effectively engage and sustain the involvement of families and youth at the agency level. 

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

Explore the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity that supports engagement with young people currently and formerly 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.

Learn about adolescent brain development, trauma-responsive care, and the importance of normalcy.

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.

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