Learn about the challenges of engaging difficult-to-reach populations of youth and young adults. 

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

Learn strategies for accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

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

Learn about how Jamall reunified with family members and enjoyed family cookouts and holidays with the help of Jennifer and the Family Finder program through Kinnect Ohio.

Learn about Jennifer’s commitment to facilitating belonging and lifelong support for children in foster care through the Kinnect Ohio Family Finding program.

Learn about Jamall’s reunification with his mother, grandmother, and other family members through Kinnect Ohio’s Finding Family program.

Learn how to effectively present data in digestible and actionable ways that lead to real change.

Learn about the values of cultural competence, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and how to implement them at a child welfare agency.  

Discover strategies for co-creating and sharing power with youth and families in child welfare.

Hear about strategies for authentically partnering with youth, young adults, Tribes, families, and communities of color to inform and improve child welfare research, practice, and policy.

Explore strategies for engaging and empowering fathers of color in child welfare. 

Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

Discover strategies for using data to build evidence, engage youth, families, and other partners, and move toward racial equity in child welfare. ​