Learn common CFSR terms and acronyms.

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

Complete this template to create, print, and share a communication plan for your change effort. 

Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

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.

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

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

Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

Listen to a judge and a child welfare agency leader discuss the challenges, achievements, and strategies of the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court. This longstanding collaboration between the child welfare, substance use treatment, and judicial systems has been steadily growing its Family Treatment Court Team and improving outcomes for families since 2001.

Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

This video highlights engagement as a caseworker visits a 16-year-old youth months after a placement.

This reference guide describes the six short videos and paired discussion guides that demonstrate what quality visits look like in practice within one family system over a period of time. 

Pair this discussion guide with its corresponding video to understand the value of engaging a supervisor in coaching for family visits.