Learn how to support LGBTQIA2S+ children and young people at a child welfare agency.

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

Use this discussion guide with the "Reflecting on Racial Equity and the Child Welfare Workforce" video to facilitate team discussions about your agency’s current practice and opportunities to take action.

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

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

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

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 about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

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

This tool is a role-playing activity, designed to help child welfare workers and supervisors become more familiar with the process of recognizing and translating buzzwords into descriptive language.

Learn about the importance of successful collaboration and engagement for implementing prevention-focused systems.

Helps child welfare leaders identify what they can do to advance their prevention vision and shows what they will see as that vision takes root.

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.