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Webinar

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

Publication Year 2021
Video

Watch this recorded webcast to learn what it means to build a complete system of foster care as a support to families, not a substitute for parents.

Publication Year 2020
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
Webinar

Get practical information about supporting coordinated strategic and long-term planning.

Publication Year 2019
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2019
Video

Learn about the Collaborative and the work it does with agencies, Tribes, and courts to build capacity.

Publication Year 2016
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2016
Webinar

Discover how parent partner programs support family reunification by guiding and motivating parents into constructive interactions with the child welfare system and courts.

Publication Year 2016
PDF

Understand the principles underlying service provisioning for the Collaborative, in addition to goals, audiences, objectives, and examples.

Publication Year 2015
PDF

Learn about Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative's evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process.

Publication Year 2015
PDF

Learn about the identified five dimensions of capacity, browse examples of each, and find out why each dimension is important to an organization.

Publication Year 2015