Watch a discussion on focusing on job-specific skills (instead of best practices culture), training in a virtual environment, and integrating racial equity across child welfare training.

Explore the benefits of and strategies for recruiting and integrating people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

Use this discussion guide with CWVE 2023 videos to explore topics on workforce recruitment and retention, as well as access individual reflection exercises, discussion prompts, and team activities.

Explore how to use human resources data to address worker turnover with guides, resources, and videos from the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development.

Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

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

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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

Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.

Set the groundwork for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the CFSR.

Explore additional resources to learn how to accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Explore additional resources for engaging individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more.

Explore and discuss state performance on CFSR statewide data indicators.

Discover how to examine and drill down into state data to build understanding of what’s happening in your child welfare system.