Learn common CFSR terms and acronyms.

Combine lived expertise with agency perspectives to better understand state child welfare data.

Access this project management resource to plan for the CFSR Statewide Assessment. 

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

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

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

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.

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.

Explore and reflect on the impact of, and opportunities to improve, assessment and decision-making processes. 

Desiree is an alumna of the foster care system. She lived with the same foster care family for 14 years. She entered foster care with three of her siblings, and wants to use her experiences growing up in foster care to make a difference for those still in the system.

Explore the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity that supports engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care.

Learn how domestic violence and child maltreatment affect families and read about the risks, impacts, protective efforts, and other related topics.

Find information about using collaborative practices and models across human service systems to better serve families dealing with co-occurring issues.

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.