Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.

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

Set the groundwork for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the CFSR.

Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.

Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

Read this resource to learn about direct financial assistance and emergency financial assistance available to young people.

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

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

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

Explore strategies for redesigning the child welfare service array to meet the needs of youth and young adults currently and formerly in foster care.

Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

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). 

Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

Find meaningful and actionable connections among your agency’s strategic planning, review, and CQI efforts using this toolkit.

Explore strategies to recruit and support caregivers, strengthen their voices, and work together with them to meet the needs of children and youth.