In this video, presenters share their experiences with leading and being led by those around them in child welfare and offer practical strategies for child welfare professionals, no matter their role, to lead and support each other in leadership roles.

Hear from Capacity Building Center for States Family and Young Adult Consultants with lived experience on the critical role leaders play in advancing well-being, resilience, and dedication of the child welfare workforce.

Hear from leaders as they reflect on transformational leadership and its importance in child welfare.

Explore the benefits of and strategies for recruiting and integrating people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

Learn why the Indian Child Welfare Act and the historical trauma Indigenous people have experienced are important to understand when working with Indigenous families. 

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

Get practical guidance for building organizational capacity and for implementing flexible and innovate programs for youth engagement.

Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

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

Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

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

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