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Webinar

Meaningfully Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Outcomes

See how staff can boost their knowledge and skills for engaging families, community providers, and others.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Monica's Story

This video highlights the story of a family specialist in Ohio who partners with families to identify safe and healthy kinship connections that empower children, youth, and families.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Nevada’s Story

This video highlights the story of a kinship foster parent and her experience navigating the kinship caregiver process in New York City by using the Kinship Guardian Assistance Program (KinGAP).

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

Post-Reunification Supports and Prevention of Reentry Into Out-of-Home Care: National Foster Care Month Recorded Webinar

Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

Publication Year 2016
Webinar

Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Continuous Quality Improvement, Part I: Youth and Family Engagement Strategies in CQI and Data Exploration

Build skills in community engagement in quality improvement and enhanced data exploration. 

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Continuous Quality Improvement, Part II: Advancing Equity Through Data Exploration

Learn sound methods for integrating a focus on race equity in data analysis and CQI. 

Publication Year 2022
Video

Ronda’s Story

The video highlights the story of a kinship caregiver and how becoming a licensed foster parent working with social services and her local child welfare agency resulted in better support and resources.

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

State Team Planning National Meeting Archived Webinar

Explore how child welfare agencies, legal and judicial stakeholders, prevention partners, and communities can work together to build prevention-focused systems, starting with jurisdictions' 2020–24 Child and Family Services Plans (CFSPs). 

Publication Year 2019
PDF

Strategic Planning in Child Welfare: Strategies for Meaningful Youth, Family, and Other Partner Engagement​

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

Publication Year 2022
Video

Teresa's Story (2022)

This video highlights the story of a school social worker in Rhode Island and her experience becoming a foster parent to a student who did not have a relative placement.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Tish's Story

This video highlights the story of a family specialist in Ohio and her experience working with families to successfully place children with kin.

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

Tools to Support Effective Collaboration for Strengthening Families

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

Publication Year 2021
Video

Vashti’s Story

This video highlights the story of a kinship specialist with the New York City Children’s Services and how she collaborates with fellow child welfare agencies in identifying kinship guardians to result in successful kin placement.

Publication Year 2022