Explore strategies to engage individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more. 

Use this discussion guide with the CWVE 2022 videos to view a description of each topic, access individual reflection questions to facilitate personal, on-demand learning, and explore conversation starters and team activities with child welfare staff and collaborative partners.   

Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

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

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

Use the guide and digital stories from this library with teams and individuals to advocate, inspire, support, recruit, train, and coach towards a better child welfare system. 

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

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

Use this brief to help your agency coordinate strategic and long-term planning, monitoring, and reporting processes—such as the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR)—with agency continuous quality improvement (CQI).

Explore additional resources to learn about the challenges of engaging difficult-to-reach populations of youth and young adults.

Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services. 

Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Explore additional resources on how to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare.