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. 

Use this tool with your prevention planning team to prepare for and tackle the adaptive challenges that many states face as they develop and implement prevention plans. 

Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

Hear practical advice about transforming partnerships from the team implementing a holistic prevention program in North Carolina in this short podcast.

Learn about the Indiana Department of Child Services’ upstream prevention approach to training and development, expanding the service array, and collaborating with system partners and providers in this recorded webinar.

Learn how the Children’s Home Society of Washington’s Parents for Parents program aligns with Family First Prevention Plan goals in this recorded webinar.

Engage staff and partners with activities in this guide to start a dialogue and create a vision for a more prevention-focused child welfare system.

Learn solid strategies for understanding and implementing the trauma-informed care provisions of the FFPSA.

Illustrates the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity supporting engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care. Each of the four segments succinctly defines an element of organizational capacity building for youth engagement.

Examines the tasks of consolidating and reviewing the implementation plan before completing and putting it in place.

Provides information on the task of identifying communication and engagement activities described in the implementation work plan.