Learn common CFSR terms and acronyms.

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

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

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.

Examine the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program's purpose, objectives, history, funding, and requirements. 

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.

Find out where evidence-based programs and services are being implemented to prevent children from entering foster care.

Review the steps for running the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance on statewide data indicators. 

Learn to use the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance for a state on all or selected statewide data indicators.

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

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

Learn how to support state planning and implementation of the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), which is required by the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183), to help children and youth in foster care experience normal childhood and adolescent activities. 

Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

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.